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All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over and Adult income rank of children raised poor here

Where All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over is higher, Adult income rank of children raised poor here tends to be lower. The link is weak: -0.33 across 3,119 counties, on a scale from −1 (opposite) to +1 (in step). That figure compares places with the same population density, income and education, so those differences can't explain it. It holds inside states too. Measured separately within each of 40 states, the middle value of the link is -0.27.

Holds after adjusting

Every place, plotted

One dot for each place reporting both measures. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name and values. The thin line is the straight line that best fits the dots. The bold line, shown for counties, is the link after adjusting for density, income and education. A dot far from the lines is a place that does not follow the pattern.

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What each measure is

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over

The estimated percentage of adults who aged 65 and over have lost all their natural teeth. It is adjusted so places with older or younger populations can be compared fairly. It is an estimate from a statistical model, not a direct count from a local survey.

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Adult income rank of children raised poor here

Where children who grew up here with poor parents ended up as adults, ranked against everyone in the country by income, on a scale from 0 to 1. A value of 0.5 would mean that on average they reached the middle of the national income ladder.

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Highest and lowest

Where each measure is highest and lowest among the places reporting both (2023), with the other measure beside it. This is shown for every size of place where both are published. Metro-area values are added up from their counties. A measure that cannot be added up across counties, such as a middle value (median), has no metro figure. Counts are shown per 1,000 residents, since raw totals would only list the largest places. Cities and towns and ZIP codes are shown where the Census survey or the CDC publishes them; most other sources stop at the county. They are shown for places of 5,000 residents or more, and only where the survey’s margin of error is small enough for the figure to be usable. The CDC publishes its health estimates for cities in a version adjusted for age, so places with older or younger people can be compared fairly, but not for ZIP codes.

Counties

By all natural teeth lost, age 65 and over

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and overAdult income rank of children raised poor here
Highest
Kusilvak Census Area, AK44.6%0.216
Todd County, SD44.5%0.302
Oglala Lakota County, SD43.8%0.248
East Carroll Parish, LA43.5%0.349
Mellette County, SD42.8%0.488
Lowest
Williamson County, TN3.8%0.434
Falls Church city, VA4%0.5
Forsyth County, GA4.3%0.423
San Francisco County, CA4.4%0.504
Dane County, WI4.4%0.43

By adult income rank of children raised poor here

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and overAdult income rank of children raised poor here
Highest
Harding County, SD11.4%0.688
Bowman County, ND12.4%0.675
Grant County, ND13.2%0.667
Billings County, ND10%0.666
Golden Valley County, ND12.7%0.662
Lowest
Kusilvak Census Area, AK44.6%0.216
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK20.2%0.237
Northwest Arctic Borough, AK30.4%0.242
Bethel Census Area, AK31.5%0.245
Oglala Lakota County, SD43.8%0.248
Metro areas

By all natural teeth lost, age 65 and over

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and overAdult income rank of children raised poor here
Highest
Lumberton, NC31.1%0.321
Grenada, MS28.7%0.352
Somerset, KY28.6%0.375
Natchez, MS-LA28.4%0.377
Greenwood, MS28.2%0.331
Lowest
Los Alamos, NM4.4%0.472
Owatonna, MN5%0.476
Wausau, WI5.1%0.478
Madison, WI5.45%0.443
Vineyard Haven, MA5.6%0.462

By adult income rank of children raised poor here

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and overAdult income rank of children raised poor here
Highest
Dickinson, ND12.3%0.625
Carroll, IA12.2%0.59
Williston, ND11.8%0.586
Le Mars, IA12.1%0.551
Heber, UT10.5%0.543
Lowest
Laurinburg, NC22.5%0.311
Greenville, MS23.5%0.319
Lumberton, NC31.1%0.321
Henderson, NC20.9%0.324
Clarksdale, MS27.3%0.325

Counties furthest from the pattern

Compared with the straight line that best fits all 3,138 counties: the five with far more adult income rank of children raised poor here than their all natural teeth lost, age 65 and over would suggest, and the five with far less.

All natural teeth lost, age 65 and overAdult income rank of children raised poor here
Above the line
Harding County, SD11.4%0.688
Bowman County, ND12.4%0.675
Grant County, ND13.2%0.667
Golden Valley County, ND12.7%0.662
Billings County, ND10%0.666
Below the line
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK20.2%0.237
Mineral County, CO9.3%0.294
Menominee County, WI17.8%0.274
Bristol Bay Borough, AK12.4%0.301
North Slope Borough, AK16.7%0.288

Two series, one county

Both measures over time for a county you pick. The two charts are stacked, so they share only the years along the bottom. You can pick from the thirty largest counties reporting both. This panel covers 2010–2024, and a measure published only once shows as a single dot.

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Every version of the link

Each row measures the same link, from −1 to +1, in a different way. If the rows mostly agree, the link does not depend on one choice of method.

Before adjusting for anything-0.4343,119 counties reporting both
After adjusting for density, income and education-0.326the part of the link that is not just how urban, rich and educated a place is
Also adjusting for population size-0.334size taken out as well as density
Also comparing only within each state-0.228each county is compared only with others in its own state, so this is no longer a comparison between states
Giving bigger counties more weight-0.131the adjusted link for the average resident rather than the average county. With this weighting, the data counts for about 287 equally weighted counties
Middle value inside single states-0.271the link worked out inside each of 40 states with at least 20 counties reporting
Using ranks, after adjusting-0.248uses each county’s rank, not its value, so a few extreme counties cannot create the link

How much to believe it

Could it be chance?

The p-value is the chance of seeing a link this strong if there were really none. A value of 0.05 or less means the link is unlikely to be chance. Very small values are written in short form: 3.1e-16 means 0.00000000000000031, and the bigger the number after “e-”, the smaller the value. Treating every county as a separate case gives p = 3.3e-78. But counties in the same state tend to resemble each other, so the better figure allows for that: p = 5.3e-5. The site tested 20,910 pairs, and testing so many turns up some flukes. The q-value allows for that too. For this pair it is 2.3e-77.

Do nearby places look alike?

Moran’s I measures how much nearby places look alike: 0 means no map pattern, and higher means neighbours are more similar. For the part of each county that the adjustment leaves unexplained, it is +0.57 (p = 0.001). That unexplained part still clusters on the map. So some regional factor shared by both measures is not accounted for.

Did they change together?

Not measurable: at least one of these is published for too few of the years a change needs (2014–2019 or 2019–2023), or for too few counties in both.

Related pairs

Association only. Nothing here shows that either measure changes the other. This describes counties, not the people in them. Two measures going together across places does not mean the same people have both. How the US county data works · Explore All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over and Adult income rank of children raised poor here