Town of Arlington, Fair Housing Action Plan (July 2021)

Citation: Town of Arlington, Fair Housing Action Plan (July 2021)
Jurisdiction: Arlington (municipal)
Source: Official source
Original Source: https://www.arlingtonma.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/57214/637641171662530000 ↗

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Arlington Fair Housing Action Plan

Health Outcomes
To evaluate health outcomes, MAPC examined youth asthma hospitalization rates and premature mortality rates.
The youth asthma hospitalization rates in Arlington, based on 2008-2012 data from the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health (MA DPH), was 220 per 100,000. This puts Arlington in the highest third of
municipalities in the comparison region. Within the comparison region, the four municipalities with the highest
shares of persons of color also experienced the highest youth asthma hospitalization rates (Boston, Malden,
Everett, and Chelsea); the municipalities with the next highest rates (Medford, Woburn, and Arlington) have
relatively low concentrations of persons of color. In the case of this metric, regional patterns of segregation
appear to coincide with this health outcome for persons of color, though Arlington’s outcomes are relatively high
as well.
The age adjusted overall premature mortality rate in Arlington, again based on 2008 to 2012 data, was 266
per 100,000, landing it in the middle of the comparison region, which ranges from 354 per 100,000 in Woburn
to 120 per 100,000 in Lincoln (MA DPH). The eight municipalities with premature mortality rates over 300 per
100,000 (Woburn, Stoneham, Chelsea, Medford, Wakefield, Everett, Melrose, and Malden) include communities
with both relatively high and relatively low concentrations of persons of color. While the municipalities with the
highest shares of persons of color are all in the higher half of the context communities, they are interspersed with
communities with higher shares of White persons.