After studying death rates between 2010 and 2015 in nearly every census tract (each of which has about 4,000 residents), the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month calculated the life expectancy at birth at a local level.

Here is what the agency came up with for tracts within western Putnam County (above) and Beacon (below). Good luck.

 

 

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