Morrow County, the county I have lived in for the past 15 years is ranked 10th out of 34. Its rank surprised me, I thought it would be lower on the scale. My county is ranked 8th out of 34 in length of life which isn’t too surprising. Quality of life wise, it is 17th which did surprise me as I thought it would be worse. In the health factors category, it is 22nd. Morrow counties health behaviors puts it at 27. I noticed our smoking percentage is 23 which is high compared to Oregon’s average by more than 7%. The inactivity in my town is bad, ranking at 22%.
A fact that stood out to me are the number of alcohol- impaired driving deaths which are relatively high. Another fact that really stood out to me was there being 249 sexually transmitted infections and 43 …show more content…
Morrow Counties graduation rate is 79% while Oregon’s best is 69%. My county is doing well in that aspect, but if one looks a little further into the college sector, percentages drop significantly. From as low as 34% to a 66.7%, or the highest being 71%. The unemployment rate did surprise me because in my opinion there is lots of work around my town. The work is mostly factory work and working out in a farm so hands on work. A factor I took into account when analyzing this, is perhaps some people declared unemployment while they only worked part- time because a lot of the work is seasonal meaning it runs from February to May then a break and back to being employed during late August to early November. The last type of factors that went into this analysis was the physical environment. The air pollution is relatively high but as I did mention before there are lots of factories that lead to production of jobs but that also impacts the quality of air in a negative way. I clicked on the graph under the trend option, to no surprise the air pollution has been rising due to more factories being built and expansions of factories
A fact that stood out to me are the number of alcohol- impaired driving deaths which are relatively high. Another fact that really stood out to me was there being 249 sexually transmitted infections and 43 …show more content…
Morrow Counties graduation rate is 79% while Oregon’s best is 69%. My county is doing well in that aspect, but if one looks a little further into the college sector, percentages drop significantly. From as low as 34% to a 66.7%, or the highest being 71%. The unemployment rate did surprise me because in my opinion there is lots of work around my town. The work is mostly factory work and working out in a farm so hands on work. A factor I took into account when analyzing this, is perhaps some people declared unemployment while they only worked part- time because a lot of the work is seasonal meaning it runs from February to May then a break and back to being employed during late August to early November. The last type of factors that went into this analysis was the physical environment. The air pollution is relatively high but as I did mention before there are lots of factories that lead to production of jobs but that also impacts the quality of air in a negative way. I clicked on the graph under the trend option, to no surprise the air pollution has been rising due to more factories being built and expansions of factories