{"id":18319,"date":"2019-09-09T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60027"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:57:44","slug":"grand-29th-on-list-of-50-us-counties-with-high-life-expectancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/grand-29th-on-list-of-50-us-counties-with-high-life-expectancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand 29th on list of 50 US counties with high life expectancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/GC_GC201110111109963AR.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/GC_GC201110111109963AR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/GC_GC201110111109963AR-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><figcaption><strong>Fishermen try their luck in the Colorado River west of Parshall in Grand County. The county has been ranked 29th in the U.S. for life expectancy.<\/strong><br \/><em>Sky-Hi News file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>With a life expectancy approaching 83 years, Grand County landed 29th on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"USA Today\u2019s list (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/09\/06\/the-50-counties-where-people-live-the-longest\/40072465\/?fbclid=IwAR3srpNfiHLXszj8eKQHOqOkRO-hFzUMCzjqM99vu3dW4Di7fQgEVGspgzE\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today\u2019s list<\/a> of 50 U.S. counties with high life expectancies.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published Friday, Colorado\u2019s High Country fared better than any other region with five of the top 10 counties with high life expectancies credited to the Mile High State.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the top three slots were all in Colorado\u2019s Rocky Mountains with Summit, Pitkin and Eagle counties ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Colorado, San Miguel (7<sup>th<\/sup>), Douglas (10<sup>th<\/sup>), Hinsdale (12<sup>th<\/sup>), Ouray (21<sup>st<\/sup>), Routt (30<sup>th<\/sup>) and Park (39<sup>th<\/sup>) counties made the cut. Along with Grand County, that gave Colorado 10 counties on the list, far more than any other state.<\/p>\n<p>To determine the counties where people are living the longest, researchers reviewed county-level life expectancy figures, death records, and poverty and obesity rates.<\/p>\n<p>They found that Grand County has a life expectancy of 82.73 years with a 16.3% adult obesity rate and a 13.1% poverty rate. From 1980 to 2014, the life expectancy rate increased 9.4% in Grand County.<\/p>\n<p>The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78.6 years, down from 78.9 years in 2014.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/grand-county-29th-in-us-for-longest-life-expectancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen try their luck in the Colorado River west of Parshall in Grand County. The county has been ranked 29th in the U.S. for life expectancy.Sky-Hi News file photo With a life expectancy approaching 83 years, Grand County landed 29th on USA Today\u2019s list of 50 U.S. counties with high life expectancies. In a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:18:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}