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POPULATION HEALTH DATA BRIEF TEMPLATE


YOUR NAME
Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care
February 2021


Wake County, North Carolina
A. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
1. Key Findings

● In 2020, Wake County was ranked number 1 out of 100 counties in North Carolina
for overall health outcomes.
● The population is denser in Wake County, with 1078.8 people per square mile,
than the USA population density of 87.4 people per square mile.
● STI's are a serious health concern in Wake County with a rate of 567 per 100,000
population.
● Wake County’s air pollution remains higher than the state and national averages at
11 mcg per cubic meter.
● Wake County exceeds the state and national percentage of some college at 80%.




Wake County, North Carolina




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,2. Introductory paragraph
Information gathered from the United States Census Bureau Quickfacts

website was used to summarize sociodemographic characteristics in Wake

County, North Carolina, compared to national levels. The overall population of

Wake County is 1,111,761; that is an estimated 0.3 percent of the total

population of the USA, which is 328,239,523. The population percent change in

Wake County of 23.4 percent, which is more than three times higher than that

of the USA, which is only 6.3 percent. The Wake County population is growing

at a much faster rate than the national population. The percentage of people

65 years and old in the USA is more significant than in Wake County, with the

national average being 16.5 percent and the county average being 12 percent.

However, the percentage of people under 18 in Wake County is 23.6 percent,

which is minimally higher than the national average of 22.3 percent. The rate

of women in Wake County is 51.4 percent, slightly higher than the USA's

percentage, 50.8 percent.

Wake County has a fair amount of ethnic diversity. In Wake County, 67.9

percent of people are white alone, below the national average of 76.5 percent.

The population of Hispanic alone in Wake County is 10.4 percent, which is

lower than the national population of 18.5 percent. The percentage of foreign-

born people in Wake County, 13.5 percent, is almost equivocal to that of the

USA overall, 13.6 percent. The rate of those over the age of five that speak

another language besides English at home in Wake County is low, 17.2 percent,

compared to the national measure of 21.6 percent. The percentage of

households with a computer is higher in Wake County, 96.1 percent compared

to the USA rate of 90.3 percent. In Wake County, 93.0 % of the population has

a high school graduate degree or higher; the national measure is only 88
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, percent. The percentage of those over the age of 16 in the civilian labor force

is higher in Wake County, 70.2 percent, than the USA average of 63 percent.

For women, the percent of females over 16 in the labor force in Wake County,

64.2 percent, is also slightly higher than the USA average of 58.3 percent.

The percentage of those under the age of 65 with a disability is low in

Wake County, 5.8 percent compared to 8.6 percent nationally. The rate of those

without health insurance under the age of 65 in Wake County is 10 percent,

only slightly higher than the national percentage of 9.5 percent. In Wake

County, the total healthcare and social assistance revenue is $5,110,378, then

in the USA, $2,040,441,203. The total retail sales per capita in Lane County is

4,291,512 as compared to the USA, 4,219,821,871. In the past 12 months for

Wake County, the per capita income was $15,081 is slightly more than the

national average of $13,443. The rate of Poverty in Wake County is less at 8

percent versus the 10.5 percent in the USA. However, the population is denser

in Wake County, with 1078.8 people per square mile, than the USA population

density of 87.4 people per square mile.

3. Sociodemographic Profile Table


Population Characteristics County United States

1,111,761
Population Estimates 328,239,52
3
23 6.3%
Population Percent Change .
4
%
23 22.3%
Percentage of Persons Under the Age of 18 .
6
%
12 16.5%
Percentage of Persons 65 Years and Over
%
Percentage of Women 51 50.8%
.
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