We only assist with pauper, indigent or transient burials and cremations. Township Mortality in other income categories are not reflected in this chart.
Median income in Perry Township has steadily risen since 2013, as older and cheaper housing has been gentrified or replaced by newer market rate construction.
The combined information in 2 & 3 should indicate that higher death rates more common among lowest income populations should be decreasing as low-income populations decrease.
The population of Perry Township is 53,000, of the 143,000 in Monroe County, or 37%. If an extrapolation holds true the numbers in our chart should be almost 3x for the entire indigent population of the county. Again, this only reflects indigent population increases in burials/cremations.
During the first two COVID pandemic years, we have no detectable spike in burials/cremations, (or there is a collapse of deaths by other causes that was replaced by COVID, which is not likely). Nationally and in Indiana there were spikes in the first four months of 2022 According to the NY Times Covid dashboard, these spikes didn't occur in Monroe County, IN.
Burials and Cremations per Year