(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The California Department of Public Health has released statewide suicide statistics just completed for the three year period of 2018 through 2020. The numbers show that Yuba County had the ninth highest suicide rate in California with 46 deaths.

There were 30 suicides over the same three year period in Sutter County, while California’s highest suicide rate was in Shasta County.

The Appeal-Democrat reports demographically, the majority of suicides in Yuba & Sutter Counties were Caucasian men between the ages of 25 and 44.

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