Definition: Number of hospital discharges for firearm-related injuries per 100,000 children and young adults ages 0-24 (e.g., in 2021, the rate of hospitalization for firearm injuries among California young people ages 0-24 was 10.1 per 100,000).
Data Source: California Dept. of Public Health, EpiCenter; California Dept. of Finance, Population Estimates and Projections (Jul. 2023).
Footnote: Data are based on the number of hospitalizations, not the number of young people hospitalized. Data are limited to hospital admissions; emergency room visits that do not result in admission are excluded. County-level data reflect the patient's county of residence, not the county in which the hospitalization occurred. The notation S refers to numbers and rates that have been suppressed because there were between 1 and 10 firearm injury hospitalizations.
