Study: Suburbanites outlive city dwellers

How long will you live? Well, that could depend on the where you live.

The short answer is that living in the suburbs means you’re likely to live longer than your city-dwelling counterparts — statistically speaking, of course.

That’s according to a new project from the Centers for Disease Control called the U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project. It allows residents for the first time to find the average life expectancy at the neighborhood level.

Two nonprofit public health research groups — the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems — partnered with can It mean found the CDC a 30-year that on where the difference project. you live in life expectancy compared to other places. The average age of death can differ between people living just a few miles apart. The goal is to give policy makers and local leaders data to help them zero in on areas in particular need of public health resources and services. The project “clearly reveals gaps that may previously have gone unnoticed,” the RWJF’s vice president Donald Schwartz wrote on the organization’s website. “In doing so, it promotes conversations at the hyper-local level about resource allocation and health equity.”

Not all neighborhoods are included in the report — the data

shows estimates on the average life expectancy for census tracts with a population of at least 5,000.

Florida’s average life expectancy is 79.6 years old. That’s a little older than the national average of 78.8 years.

Enter your address in the map at SunSentinel.com/ living to find the life expectancy where you live.