Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
| Above US Rate | Similar to US Rate | Below US Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Trend |
Priority 1: rising  and above |
Priority 2: rising and similar  |
Priority 3: rising and below  |
| Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable  and above Atkinson County Bacon County Crawford County Crisp County Early County Elbert County Emanuel County Franklin County Heard County Laurens County Macon County Miller County Monroe County Montgomery County Pickens County Pierce County Pike County Treutlen County Wayne County White County Wilkinson County Worth County |
Priority 6: stable and similar Banks County Candler County Charlton County Cook County Dooly County Evans County Habersham County Hancock County Jasper County Lanier County Lincoln County Long County Marion County McIntosh County Oglethorpe County Rabun County Randolph County Taylor County Telfair County Towns County Turner County Warren County Washington County |
Priority 7: stable and below |
| Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above Barrow County Bartow County Berrien County Bibb County Brantley County Bryan County Butts County Carroll County Chattooga County Coffee County Colquitt County Decatur County Dodge County Dougherty County Effingham County Floyd County Gordon County Haralson County Jackson County Liberty County Lumpkin County Madison County Mitchell County Murray County Muscogee County Peach County Polk County Richmond County Spalding County Stephens County Tattnall County Thomas County Toombs County Troup County Upson County Walker County Ware County Whitfield County |
Priority 8: falling and similar Appling County Baldwin County Ben Hill County Bleckley County Brooks County Bulloch County Burke County Camden County Catoosa County Chatham County Clayton County Clinch County Columbia County Coweta County Dade County Dawson County Douglas County Fannin County Gilmer County Glynn County Grady County Greene County Hall County Harris County Hart County Henry County Houston County Irwin County Jeff Davis County Jefferson County Johnson County Jones County Lamar County Lee County Lowndes County McDuffie County Meriwether County Morgan County Newton County Paulding County Pulaski County Putnam County Rockdale County Screven County Sumter County Talbot County Terrell County Tift County Twiggs County Union County Walton County Wilkes County |
Priority 9: falling and below Cherokee County Clarke County Cobb County DeKalb County Fayette County Forsyth County Fulton County Gwinnett County Oconee County |
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Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/11/2026 3:27 pm. Trend2 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.Rate Comparison Above when 95% confident the rate is above and Rate Ratio3 > 1.10Similar when unable to conclude above or below with confidence.Below when 95% confident the rate is below and Rate Ratio3 < 0.901 Priority indices were created by ordering from rates that are rising and above the comparison rate to rates that are falling and below the comparison rate. 2 Recent trend in death rates is usually an Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period and/or calculation method used in the calculation of the trends may differ for selected geographic areas. 3 Rate ratio is the county rate divided by the US rate. Previous versions of this table used one-year rates for states and five-year rates for counties. As of June 2018, only five-year rates are used. Source: 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 (20 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85-89, 90+). 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. Note: When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate. Suppression is used to avoid misinterpretation when rates are unstable. State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data. Data presented on the State Cancer Profiles Web Site may differ from statistics reported by the State Cancer Registries (for more information). Data for the following has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates: Baker County, Calhoun County, Chattahoochee County, Clay County, Echols County, Glascock County, Quitman County, Schley County, Stewart County, Taliaferro County, Webster County, Wheeler County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Jenkins County, Seminole County, Wilcox County Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer statistics. When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate. Data for United States do not include Puerto Rico. |
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