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Thyroid Cancer by County
Thyroid Cancer
Source NCI State Cancer Profiles (SEER and NPCR), 2018-2022 Provenance US federal agency · primary Agency National Cancer Institute Years 2022 Unit per 100,000 people Geography County (1,599 published) Counted among County residents Coverage 50% of counties Highest Clay County, West Virginia, 37.6 Lowest Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 4.4
New thyroid cases per 100,000 people per year, 2018-2022, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Age adjustment matters here: without it this would largely be a map of where older people live.
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Highest counties
County Thyroid Cancer
Clay County, West Virginia 37.6
Custer County, Nebraska 32.4
Bedford County, Pennsylvania 31.3
Martin County, Kentucky 30.7
Jefferson County, Pennsylvania 29.9
Richmond County, New York 29.0
Logan County, West Virginia 29.0
Osage County, Missouri 28.6
Powell County, Kentucky 28.1
Jackson Parish, Louisiana 27.2
Lincoln County, Kentucky 26.8
Boone County, West Virginia 25.6
Lowest counties
County Thyroid Cancer
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama 4.4
Muskegon County, Michigan 4.7
Darlington County, South Carolina 5.6
Franklin County, New York 5.6
Sumter County, Florida 5.7
DeKalb County, Alabama 5.8
Anderson County, Texas 5.9
Chesterfield County, South Carolina 6.0
Lake County, California 6.0
Crittenden County, Arkansas 6.1
Hampton city, Virginia 6.2
Jefferson County, Arkansas 6.4
Counted among: County residents