In September, the Portland Police Bureau reported the city's suicide rate was three times the national rate. As The Oregonian reported at the time, that was an overstatement. Portland's suicide rate is closer to 25 percent higher than the nation, according to Lisa Millet, manager of the Injury and Violence Prevention section of the Oregon Public Health Division.



This week, the Police Bureau issued a correction. The error occurred because the Bureau gathered information on Portland suicides over 27 months (April 2011 to June 2013) and compared it to a national 12-month rate (2010). The inflated comparison was an oversight, said Frank Silva, a crime bureau analyst who wrote the initial report. National statistics about suicide lag local data by a couple of years.



"At the time of completing the report, 2010 statistics were the only substantiated national statistics I could find," Silva wrote in an email. "This has been confusing for some and I will be cognizant of this when writing future reports."



Statewide, Oregon's suicide rate is 41 percent higher than the national rate and has long outpaced the country. Western states have higher rates than the rest of the country.



The report, compiled by the Portland Police Bureau's Behavioral Health Unit, revealed 202 people killed themselves in Portland from April, 2011 to June, 2013. That's almost almost twice the number of people who died in homicides (53) and traffic fatalities, (68) combined.



Other findings in the report:



Most suicides were reported in the mornings and June had the highest average, with 10.3 suicides.

Summer months had more suicides than other seasons.

Men killed themselves more than women, 83.7 percent to 16.3 percent.

Whites represented 87.6 percent of suicides, African-Americans and Asians each were 4.5 percent and Hispanics were 3.5 percent.

The average age was 44.8 years.

The report did not include information on methods or locations in Portland.