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Weight Trends Among Children and Adolescents within Central Indiana: 2024 Data Addendum (posted September 2025)

Project Team: Zach Carr, Jennifer Crago, Thomas Duszynski, Amy Hancock, Nimish Valvi, Muchiri Wandai

This third report provides an annual update, adding 2024 data to describe childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends from 2014 through 2024.

Nearly 1 in 5 central Indiana children live with obesity. Central Indiana childhood obesity prevalence declined about one-half a point in a year, to 21.4% in 2024. This is the third straight yearly decline since a COVID-19 pandemic era peak of 22.9% in 2021. Disparities persist, as Black and Hispanic children and children in Marion County and Shelby County experience the highest prevalences in 2024. Long-term, adolescents ages 12-19 have experienced the slowest 11-year increase in obesity prevalence. The steepest long-term increase is among children ages 2-5, highlighting the importance of urgent and multi-sector efforts to safeguard the health of young children.

Weight Trends Among Children and Adolescents within Central Indiana: 2023 Data Addendum (posted April 2025)

Project Team: Zach Carr, Jennifer Crago, Thomas Duszynski, Amy Hancock, Nimish Valvi, Muchiri Wandai


This second report provides an annual update to the initial report, adding 2023 data to describe childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends from 2014 through 2023. Tables and charts describe trends among children ages 2 through 19 for Marion, the contiguous 7 counties, and for the region. The report also describes trends by sex, race and ethnicity, and age group, and it explores changes associated with time periods immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weight Trends Among Children and Adolescents within Central Indiana (posted 2024)

Project Team: Jennifer Crago, Thomas Duszynski, Amy Hancock, Nimish Valvi, Ava Luo

This inaugural report describes data through 2022. An extensive introduction, recommendations for policy and practice change, references and appendices position these new data in the urgent and broad local and national efforts to reduce and prevent childhood obesity.

 

 

 

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