Conroe - Montgomery Edition | June 2021

HEALTH CARE SNAPSHOT

COMPILED BY ANNA LOTZ

COMPARING COUNTY HEALTH These rankings are updated annually but include data from previous years. There are other factors included that are not listed below.

COMBATING COVID19

A higher percentage of Harris County residents have been vaccinated than the statewide amount, while Montgomery County falls about 4 percentage points below the state. More than half of Montgomery County residents ages 12 and older have received at least one dose. Data is as of June 15.

Active cases total just over 1% of all conrmed cases in Montgomery and Harris counties. COUNTY CASES

COUNTYVACCINATIONS

MONTGOMERY COUNTY HARRIS COUNTY

PEOPLE AGE 12+ WITH AT LEAST ONE DOSE

2.22 million - 57.36% 259,311 - 51.55%

WALLER COUNTY

Active 891 598 Deaths

17,578 - 37.77%

Total 53,036*

Statewide 13.27 million - 55.14%

29,305 Recoveries

PEOPLE AGE 12+ FULLY VACCINATED

Active 3,742 6,513 Deaths

208,573 - 41.46% 1.81 million - 46.83% 14,404 - 30.95%

Total 403,188

HEALTH OUTCOMES INCLUDE:

394,683 Recoveries

• LENGTHOF LIFE • QUALITYOF LIFE , such as the number of poor mental and physical health days reported

11 million - 45.72%

HEALTH FACTORS INCLUDE:

Statewide

Active 11 50 Deaths

• HEALTHBEHAVIORS , such as smoking, obesity, physical activity, excessive drinking, alcohol- impaired driving deaths, sexually transmitted infections and teen births • CLINICAL CARE , including health insurance coverage; number of physicians, dentists and mental health providers; preventable hospital stays; and u vaccinations • SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS , such as educational attainment levels, children in poverty, income inequality and violent crimes • PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT FACTORS , such as air pollution, drinking water violations, housing problems and long commutes

VACCINATION DEMOGRAPHICS

Total 4,148

4.1% 9.1% 2.9% 4% 10.8% 13.6% 20.6% 33.3% 24.2% 55.6% 30.2% 45.9% 9.9% 10.6% 8.7% 5.8% 6.2% 4.7% 44.6% 51.7% 40.1% 27.4% 26.6% 30.5% 21.9% 16.6% 23.7% 5.2% 3.9% 5.1% 1% 1.2% 0.5%

Asian

Black

4,087 Recoveries

White Hispanic

*Total includes approximately 22,000 cases deemed "inactive" by Montgomery County, meaning the public health district has been unable to reach these individuals for 30 days or more.

Other

Unknown

CASES BY ZIP CODE

AGE BREAKDOWN

12-15

2021 STATEWIDE HEALTH CARE RANKINGS OUT OF 243 COUNTIES

77318

77356

16-49 50-64 80+ 65-79

77301

HEALTH OUTCOMES

77303

105

9 30 34 18 30 24 8 69 95

Length of life Overall

33716

77306

Quality of life HEALTH FACTORS

77304

VACCINATIONS BY ZIP CODE

77302

Overall

24 90 155 13 15 133 35 61 191 28 160 110 238 241 208

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION FULLY VACCINATED

ZIP code 77301 has seen the greatest number of COVID-19 cases, totaling about 12.5% of residents.

Health behaviors

4,274 1,748 1,666 3,439 1,276 2,451 1,360 2,562

77301 77302 77303 77304 77306 77318 77316 77356

24.64% 26.83% 20.84% 34.46% 19.35% 33.52% 30.24% 46.29%

Socioeconomic Physical environment Clinical care

SOURCES: ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN POPULATION HEALTH INSTITUTE, COUNTYHEALTHRANKINGS.ORG, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, MONTGOMERY COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER

CONROE MONTGOMERY EDITION • JUNE 2021