The Rural South is the Epicenter of the Gun Violence Endemic

U.S. counties or county equivalents with over 20 gun homicides, 2016–2020

The CDC flags death rates based on counts of less than twenty as "Unreliable". A death rate based on fewer than 20 deaths has a relative standard error of 23 percent or more, which is considered statistically unreliable. Counties are considered to be the "first-order subdivisions" of each state, regardless of their local designation (county, parish, borough, census area).
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