Number of Hospitalizations Due to Asthma (N) and Age-Adjusted Rate (per 10,000 Residents), California Counties, Children 0-17, 2010

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COUNTY	N	Rate
Imperial	163	33.7
Alameda	749	20.3
Fresno	699	23.4
Madera	75	18.4
Butte	94	20.1
San Bernardino	763	12.5
Contra Costa	327	13.2
Merced	145	16.1
Shasta	59	14.0
Sutter	23	7.4
Stanislaus	251	14.3
Los Angeles	3,006	11.3
CALIFORNIA OVERALL	11,071	11.0
Riverside	582	9.2
El Dorado	21	5.8
San Joaquin	252	10.3
Tulare	174	11.4
San Diego	692	8.6
Kings	72	14.3
Yuba	26	11.0
Sacramento	422	11.2
Monterey	122	9.7
Santa Clara	430	9.7
Kern	298	11.0
San Francisco	131	9.4
Humboldt	23	8.6
Santa Cruz	34	5.7
San Luis Obispo	38	7.2
Orange	606	7.4
Solano	78	7.1
Ventura	161	7.3
Sonoma	97	8.0
Marin	32	6.4
Yolo	33	6.8
Napa	22	6.1
Placer	44	5.3
Santa Barbara	50	4.7
San Mateo	111	6.6
Nevada	18	11.8
Tehama	26	16.3
San Benito	17	9.4
Lake	24	18.4
Siskiyou	7
Mendocino	20	9.2
Del Norte	6
Alpine	<5
Amador	<5
Calaveras	<5
Colusa	5
Glenn	<5
Inyo	5
Lassen	10
Mariposa	<5
Modoc	<5
Mono	<5
Plumas	<5
Sierra	<5
Trinity	<5
Tuolumne	6

Data Source: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), 2010

*An asthma hospitalization is a discharge from a licensed acute care hospital in California with the primary diagnosis of asthma. The rate of asthma hospitalizations is the number of hospitalizations per 10,000 residents, age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. population. Population denominators for rates are from the California Department of Finance. Rates based on numbers <12 are not reported.