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How healthy, wealthy is Alamance County? Here are the numbers. - News - The Times-News - Burlington, NC https://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20190721/how-healthy-wealthy-is-alamance-county-here-are-numbers[8/19/2019 10:57:33 AM] Isaac Groves Times-News @TNIGroves How healthy, wealthy is Alamance County? Here are the numbers. Jul 21, 2019 at 10:00 AM The 2018 Alamance County Community Assessment paints a picture of a growing county with economic challenges and disparities among racial groups contributing to health problems and a need to focus on education, access to healthcare, exercise, good food and poverty. The Alamance County Health Department, Impact Alamance, Healthy Alamance, Alamance Regional Medical Center and Cone Health and the United Way of Alamance County collected data for the report, which is done every four years. It’s available at Alamance-nc.com/health. The county’s population is older than the state as a whole. Statewide and locally, 45- to 54-year-olds make up the largest age group, but the county’s percentage of the middle-aged, at 13.5 percent, is nearly a third of a percentage point higher than the state’s, according to the CHA. While statewide 25- to 44-year-olds — at more than 25 percent of the population — make up a larger proportion of the population than in Alamance County, which is less than 24 percent. Other demographics: 57 percent of the county is occupied by single-family homes on five acres or less with heavy growth in the Southeast. 39 percent is agriculture. Population: 162,000, a nearly 7-percent increase since 2010. 68 percent white. 19 percent black. 13 percent Latino. 2 percent Asian. Less than 1 percent American Indian. 43,554 families, a 9-percent increase over 2010. 64,205 households. Economics Largest employment sectors as of 2016: 21 percent of Alamance County workers are in education, government or non-profits; 20 percent manufacturing; 17 percent retail and services; 17 percent medical and healthcare; and 13 percent leisure and hospitality. More about our incomes: $42,463 median income, more than $9,000 less than the state median. $57,308 — the “self-sufficiency standard,” which is the minimum estimated income to realistically support a family of four in Alamance County without public assistance. 118 families per average week get help at Allied Churches of Alamance County. 28 percent of children lived in poverty from 2012 to 2016, about 4 percent more than the state’s child poverty rate. 53 percent of students eligible for free-or-reduced school lunches. 59 percent of households with children receive food stamps, compared to the state rate of 54 percent. Poverty is concentrated in the northeast part of the county where 17 to 29 percent of families with children live below the poverty line, though the area along the Orange County line is much better off with 3 percent or less living below the poverty level. Southeast Alamance also has a high poverty rate, at 12 to 17 percent, while northeast Alamance near the Guilford County line is fairly affluent. 13.8 percent of families living below the poverty level in 2016 was a lot higher than the 11.7 percent in 2011, but also a decline from the 2011 to 2015 peak of 14.4 percent. It’s also higher than the state’s 12.4 percent rate. 27.8 percent of local children live below the poverty level, putting it among the higher rates in the state compared to the state level of 23.9 percent. 12,007 families, or 25,055 individuals, got assistance through SNAP (food stamps) in 2017. 24 percent of recipients were working. Health The 2017 infant mortality rate was 5.2 deaths per 1,000 live births younger than 1 year old — a big drop from 8.7 in 2003. The statewide infant mortality rate was 7.1 deaths per 1,000 births.