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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for Texas by County

Colon & Rectum, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Ruralurban

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 74.4 is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


Texas


United States


Aransas County


Atascosa County


Austin County


Bandera County


Bastrop County


Bell County


Bexar County


Bosque County


Bowie County


Brazoria County


Brazos County


Burleson County


Caldwell County


Callahan County


Cameron County


Chambers County


Collin County


Comal County


Coryell County


Dallas County


Denton County


Ector County


El Paso County


Ellis County


Fort Bend County


Galveston County


Grayson County


Gregg County


Guadalupe County


Hardin County


Harris County


Harrison County


Hays County


Hidalgo County


Hockley County


Hunt County


Jefferson County


Johnson County


Jones County


Kaufman County


Kendall County


Lampasas County


Liberty County


Lubbock County


Maverick County


McLennan County


Medina County


Midland County


Montgomery County


Nueces County


Orange County


Parker County


Potter County


Randall County


Rockwall County


Rusk County


San Jacinto County


San Patricio County


Smith County


Tarrant County


Taylor County


Tom Green County


Travis County


Upshur County


Victoria County


Waller County


Webb County


Wichita County


Williamson County


Wilson County


Wise County


Anderson County


Angelina County


Bee County


Brown County


Burnet County


Calhoun County


Cass County


Cherokee County


Coleman County


Colorado County


Cooke County


Dawson County


DeWitt County


Duval County


Eastland County


Erath County


Fannin County


Fayette County


Freestone County


Frio County


Gillespie County


Gonzales County


Gray County


Grimes County


Hale County


Henderson County


Hill County


Hood County


Hopkins County


Houston County


Howard County


Hutchinson County


Jackson County


Jasper County


Jim Wells County


Karnes County


Kerr County


Kleberg County


Lamar County


Lavaca County


Lee County


Leon County


Limestone County


Llano County


Madison County


Matagorda County


Milam County


Montague County


Moore County


Morris County


Nacogdoches County


Navarro County


Newton County


Nolan County


Palo Pinto County


Panola County


Polk County


Rains County


Red River County


Reeves County


Sabine County


Scurry County


Shelby County


Starr County


Titus County


Trinity County


Tyler County


Uvalde County


Val Verde County


Van Zandt County


Walker County


Washington County


Wharton County


Wilbarger County


Willacy County


Wood County


Young County


Zavala County


Andrews County Archer County Armstrong County Bailey County Baylor County Blanco County Borden County Brewster County Briscoe County Brooks County Camp County Carson County Castro County Childress County Clay County Cochran County Coke County Collingsworth County Comanche County Concho County Cottle County Crane County Crockett County Crosby County Culberson County Dallam County Deaf Smith County Delta County Dickens County Dimmit County Donley County Edwards County Falls County Fisher County Floyd County Foard County Franklin County Gaines County Garza County Glasscock County Goliad County Hall County Hamilton County Hansford County Hardeman County Hartley County Haskell County Hemphill County Hudspeth County Irion County Jack County Jeff Davis County Jim Hogg County Kenedy County Kent County Kimble County King County Kinney County Knox County La Salle County Lamb County Lipscomb County Live Oak County Loving County Lynn County Marion County Martin County Mason County McCulloch County McMullen County Menard County Mills County Mitchell County Motley County Ochiltree County Oldham County Parmer County Pecos County Presidio County Reagan County Real County Refugio County Roberts County Robertson County Runnels County San Augustine County San Saba County Schleicher County Shackelford County Sherman County Somervell County Stephens County Sterling County Stonewall County Sutton County Swisher County Terrell County Terry County Throckmorton County Upton County Ward County Wheeler County Winkler County Yoakum County Zapata County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/29/2025 8:36 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.