Official Site of The State of New Jersey
NJ Mortality Data Query Measure Selection
- Select a measure of interest from those listed below. Click its text link to go to the corresponding query builder page.
- For further explanation of the measures, hover your cursor over the selection bar and a description of the measure will appear. Question mark bubbles to the right of some items provide additional information for those measures.
- Queryable mortality data for 1968-1999 are available on CDC WONDER.
- Mortality dataset help and documentation
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to a change in population estimation methodology at the U.S. Census Bureau, rates for 2020 and later are not directly comparable to rates from before 2020. After 2010-2020 intercensal estimates are released by the Census Bureau in late 2024, all rates will be recalculated to enable trend analysis.
- Provisional 2022-2024 death data query module (updated monthly)
- Counts
Crude Rate
A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
- Age-adjusted Rates - Statewide
- Age-adjusted Rates - Counties
- Age-adjusted Rates - Large Municipalities
Rates for Municipalities
Detailed population estimates necessary for age-adjustment calculations are only available for municipalities with 65,000 or more residents.
- Average Age at Death
- Counts
Crude Rate
A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
- Age-adjusted Rates - Statewide
- Age-adjusted Rates - Counties
- Age-adjusted Rates - Large Municipalities
Rates for Municipalities
Detailed population estimates necessary for age-adjustment calculations are only available for municipalities with 65,000 or more residents.
- Average Age at Death