Medical Debt’s High Toll in Knoxville’s Black Communities

In Knox County, Tennessee, areas with the highest share of Black residents also have the most medical debt, a pattern that is common across the U.S., where the burden of medical debt disproportionately affects Black communities.

Source: Urban Institute analysis

Credit: Maps by the Urban Institute. Annotation by Alyson Hurt/NPR and Noam N. Levey/KHN