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Table 4.3 Houston metro performance on SDGs compared to the top 100 most populous metros in the USA
Houston metro performance on SDGs compared to the top 100 most populous metros in the USA
SDGS
Data
100
metros
N
100
metros
minimum
100
metros
maximum
100
metros
mean
Houston
metro
Houston
metro
rank
Pop below
poverty
%
100
8.4
32.8
14.5
15.3
66
Income
$/capita
99
24,805.0 106,666.0 48,758.9 51,900.4 74
Children x2
below poverty
line
%
99
25.2
69.7
41.0
40.7
51
Food insecurity %
100
7.9
20.6
13.4
16.3
92
Pop obese
%
100
19.1
34.4
27.9
26.9
37
Infant
mortality
1/1000
93
3.4
12.1
6.0
5.4
39
Low birth
weight
%
93
5.5
11.2
8.0
8.6
67
STDs
1/100000
99
195.8
1051.4
624.0
655.6
58
Diabetes
1/1000
100
55.9
143.0
98.2
87.8
23
Heart attack
deaths
1/100000
100
59.1
257.8
166.9
169.7
49
Traffic
accident deaths
1/100000
100
5.1
17.8
10.1
11.5
67
Health
insurance
%
100
67.1
96.6
89.1
80.1
97
Primary care
physicians
1/100000
100
43.9
115.7
78.6
59.9
89
School
enrollment
%
100
89.7
96.2
94.1
94.3
40
Population
without high
school degree
%
100
5.2
36.7
12.1
17.6
92
School
enrollment
3–4 years
%
100
31.2
70.5
47.3
43.8
63
Degree
undergraduate
%
100
15.7
49.4
31.5
31.3
47
Earnings gap
%
100
16.1
56.0
28.1
27.8
54
Rapes
1/100000
94
7.2
123.8
42.7
39.9
50
Women
businesses
%
100
29.9
46.3
36.2
39.3
15
Deficit water
stress
Index
98
0.0
79.9
6.5
8.1
75
Low carbon
energy
generated
%
100
3.8
85.9
35.1
22.8
65
(continued)
D. B. Abraham