{"id":7930,"date":"2026-06-23T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:22:38","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-colorectal-cancer-death-rates-by-state-united-states-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2026\/06\/23\/7930\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Colorectal Cancer Death Rates, by State \u2014 United States, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/75\/wr\/figures\/mm7522a3-F_Colorectal_Cancer.gif?_=04338\" alt=\"Age-Adjusted Colorectal Cancer Death Rates by State \u2014 United States, 2024\" width=\"534\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the U.S. colorectal cancer death rate was 12.9 deaths per 100,000 standard population. Rates were generally lower in the Northeast and higher in the South. Colorectal cancer death rates were highest in Oklahoma (17.8) and lowest in Rhode Island (10.1).<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/256552#tabs-3\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/256552#tabs-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10-expanded.html\">Underlying Cause of Death, 2018\u20132024, Single Race Request<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reported by:<\/b>\u00a0Sibeso N. Joyner, MPH; Deepthi Kandi, MS; Arialdi Mini\u00f1o, MPH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, the U.S. colorectal cancer death rate was 12.9 deaths per 100,000 standard population. Rates were generally lower in the Northeast and higher in the South. Colorectal cancer death rates were highest in Oklahoma (17.8) and lowest in Rhode Island (10.1). Supplementary Table:\u00a0https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/256552#tabs-3 Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60442,49481],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7933,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/7933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}