Summary

According to the Surgeon General report on the effects of social isolation, "adults who report feeling lonely often are more than twice as likely to develop depression as adults who report rarely or never feeling lonely." Using 2019 data from the PLACES dataset published by the CDC, we found that in about 43% (75 of 175) of Tulsa County's Census tracts, at least 1 in 4 adults have been diagnosed with depression (below).