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The color of your skin can say a lot -- statistically, at least -- about how long you should expect to live. Where you call home is important as well. Those two are intertwined, as 

MPR News' Lorna Benson reported last week:


Here's Wilder's data placed in an interactive map so you can zoom in see exactly what Mattessich was talking about on the neighborhood level. The darker the area, the shorter the life expectancy; the lighter, the longer the life expectancy.

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col0%3E%3E0+from+1yrLibgiQAp4BZB2a-GGvBXNA7MrP7EIJY0P7oMY&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=44.96059337113797&lng=-93.4180569335479&t=1&z=9&l=col0%3E%3E0&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML

Special thanks to Melanie Ferris and Jane Tigan of Wilder Research for their help wrangling the data, which is from 

"The Unequal Distribution of Health in the Twin Cities,"

 prepared by Wilder Research and commissioned by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation.

*A census tract with an asterisk means the life expectancy estimate was calculated with a nearby tract because of low populations in the tract.

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Explore life expectancies for the seven-county Twin Cities metro area, broken down by census tract.

Map: In the Twin Cities, where you call home can say a lot about how long you may live

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