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In 2009, the age-adjusted death rate in L.A. County was 583 deaths per 100,000 population.

The lowest overall death rate (344 deaths per 100,000 population) was among Asian/Pacific Islander women, while the highest overall rate was among black men (1,083 deaths per 100,000 population).

L.A. County has around 10 million people.

The City of L.A. has close to 4 million people.

Hollywood, a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, has about 78,000 people.

Preliminary Stats for L.A. County

	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR
Homicides	53	58	70	42	46	51
Suicides	59	61	53	51	76	43
Accidents	338	240	173	114	90	138
Natural Deaths	191	204	172	109	133	140
Undetermined	9	3	4	2	2	--
Closed	650	566	472	318	347	372
Still open	63	148	309	322	329	296
Total cases	713	714	781	640	676	668

These are very provisional numbers. Many cases are not resolved or even added until after six months, if not longer. Government agencies do not release finalized figures until years later.
* L.A. County’s Coroner / Medical Examiner releases only a small subset of deaths, which is required by the state’s mandatory disclosure laws — suicides, homicides, drug overdoses, traffic fatalities, and other such deaths that warrant some government investigation. That’s about 12-32 records among the 150-170 daily deaths in our county. Most people die after a stay in the hospital — since medical staff are trusted to be familiar with the illnesses suffered by their patients, those cases don’t usually need to be investigated by the coroner.