RACE

             

                 When examining the fifteen cities it was clear that some were predominantly white while others predominantly African American. Because the HIV/AIDS rate for African Americans in New Jersey is so high, 3,533 per 100,00 people, and the rate that of the white population is only 300 per 100,000 people, I correlated the percentage of African Americans and whites in a city to the AIDS rate of that city.

New Jersey (HIV/AIDS) (1,7):

 

Cases

Total Population of the race

AIDS rate per 100,000

Hispanic, All Races

13,050

1,117,191

1168

Non Hispanic, Black, or African American

38,734

1,096,171

3533

Non Hispanic, White

16,667

5,557,209

300

Not surprisingly, there was a strong negative correlation between the percent of the population in the city that was white, -0.827, and a strong positive correlation between the percent of the population that was African American, 0.819. The cities of Irvington and East Orange both had a significantly lower percent white population, 9.37% and 3.99% respectively, while having higher percent black populations, 85.28% and 92.99% respectively. Both of these cities had extremely high cumulative AIDS rates per 100,000 people, those of 3,070 and 2,059 respectively. As urban centers of Essex County, New Jersey, Irvington and East Orange tend to have higher populations of African Americans as opposed to the more suburban areas of Clifton and Parsippany.

            

 

                            

    

 

       

 

Town/County

Percent White

Percent African American

AIDS Rate per 100,000

Bloomfield/ Essex County

72.38

12.07

386

Clifton/ Passaic County

79.87

3.03

253

Dover/ Morris County

73.02

7.18

174

East Orange/ Essex County

3.99

92.99

3070

Englewood/ Bergen County

44.49

40.82

536

Irvington/ Essex County

9.37

85.28

2059

Hackensack/ Bergen County

55.42

25.97

399

Montclair/ Essex County

61.64

33.063

839

Morristown/ Morris County

69.48

17.54

442

Newark/ Essex County

27.73

55.902

3398

Orange/ Essex County

13.86

78.88

1795

Parsippany/ Morris County

76.17

3.19

384

Passaic/ Passaic County

37.31

14.56

764

Paterson/ Passaic County

32.79

35.07

1418

Teaneck/ Bergen County

58.29

29.83

425

Correlation Coefficient

-0.827245146

0.818806546

p<0.05 

 

 

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