Capital Region Health Indicators by Race and Ethnicity, 2021-2023
| Health Indicator | Non-Hispanic | Hispanic | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Asian/Pacific Islander |
American Indian or Alaska Native |
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| Socio-Demographic Indicators | ||||||
| Population (2024) | 758,442 | 84,276 | 52,668 | 2,328 | 66,894 | 990,536 |
| Percentage of population (2024) | 76.6% | 8.5% | 5.3% | 0.2% | 6.8% | 100.0% |
| Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) | 23.3% | 10.2% | 8.7% | 20.0% | 6.8% | 19.9% |
| Median annual household income in US dollars (2020-2024)~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Percentage of families below poverty (2020-2024)~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2020-2024)~ | 8.3% | 34.0% | 15.7% | 15.9% | 27.1% | 14.0% |
| Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2020-2024)~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Percentage of population with no health insurance (2020-2024)~ | 2.5% | 5.1% | 4.3% | 10.1% | 6.2% | 3.1% |
| Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2020-2024)~ | 42.9% | 24.4% | 62.4% | 26.0% | 34.6% | 41.7% |
| Percentage of population in single parent families (2020-2024)~ | 11.3% | 39.2% | 6.6% | 31.8% | 32.8% | 14.1% |
| Percentage of population with a disability (2020-2024)~ | 13.3% | 17.1% | 6.8% | 0.1% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2020-2024)~ | 1.0% | 3.0% | 25.9% | 19.9% | 14.4% | 1.0% |
| Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2023-2024) | 5.2% | 10.6% | 3.2% | 0.0% | 14.9% | 6.6% |
| Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 14.7 | 84.2 | 4.3 | 24.6 | 34.0 | 21.3 |
| General Health Indicators | ||||||
| Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 759.2 | 1,044.3 | 382.4 | 216.8 | 478.0 | 771.4 |
| Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) | 38.5% | 72.0% | 49.4% | 73.7% | 70.7% | 42.0% |
| Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 6,468.5 | 13,991.8 | 2,727.4 | 3,680.0 | 5,846.7 | 7,074.7 |
| Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 (2022-2024) | 57.5 | 134.6 | 20.1 | 26.3 | 58.7 | 67.3 |
| Birth-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Number of births per year (3 year average) | 6,119 | 951 | 688 | 10 | 780 | 8,938 |
| Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care | 80.8% | 66.3% | 72.2% | 58.1% | 68.7% | 76.9% |
| Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ | 84.8% | 73.0% | 78.2% | s | 74.2% | 81.8% |
| Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) | 9.2% | 13.7% | 10.2% | 12.9%* | 10.9% | 10.0% |
| Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) | 6.9% | 13.8% | 10.0% | 12.9%* | 8.6% | 8.2% |
| Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years | 1.8 | 10.2 | 0.6* | NA | 5.7 | 3.2 |
| Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 53.5 | 99.5 | 67.6 | NA | 76.0 | 62.5 |
| Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 44.2 | 49.3 | 56.3 | 22.2 | 51.6 | 46.7 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 3.3 | 12.6 | 1.9* | 0.0* | 6.4 | 5.0 |
| Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section | 29.5% | 34.5% | 33.8% | s | 28.7% | 30.2% |
| Injury-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 6.9 | 13.0 | 4.8* | 15.0* | 7.8 | 7.3 |
| Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 35.6 | 60.7 | 16.1 | 15.0* | 32.8 | 37.0 |
| Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 59.0 | 71.3 | 17.6 | 65.7 | 46.5 | 65.9 |
| Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older (2022-2024) | 199.1 | 138.6 | 58.7 | 117.6 | 121.4 | 213.2 |
| Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 7.2 | 12.4 | 2.7 | s | 7.6 | 8.4 |
| Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 10.7 | 8.4 | 7.1 | 0.0* | 5.5 | 9.9 |
| Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population | 182.6 | 312.4 | 22.8 | 185.6 | 195.6 | |
| Respiratory Disease Indicators | ||||||
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 2.7 | 11.7 | 2.2 | 13.4* | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years (2022-2024) | 6.5 | 22.5 | 6.7 | s | 8.0 | 10.0 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 32.6 | 27.7 | 3.6* | 0.0* | 6.1* | 31.5 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 8.7 | 23.0 | 3.1 | 20.6 | 8.6 | 10.7 |
| Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2023)~~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators | ||||||
| Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 164.9 | 229.6 | 78.0 | 45.5* | 101.3 | 167.5 |
| Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 58.4 | 96.1 | 25.6 | 62.7 | 46.6 | 67.0 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 25.7 | 43.7 | 18.5 | 16.6* | 18.2 | 26.7 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 17.7 | 36.3 | 10.1 | 25.5 | 19.2 | 21.4 |
| Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 100.4 | 139.2 | 51.0 | 16.6* | 67.7 | 101.7 |
| Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 15.3 | 19.7 | 11.8 | 14.9 | 13.6 | 18.0 |
| Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 13.6 | 18.9 | 6.8* | 0.0* | 9.3* | 14.1 |
| Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 31.3 | 46.8 | 5.3 | 13.7* | 13.2 | 32.2 |
| Diabetes Indicators | ||||||
| Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 21.1 | 50.6 | 28.5 | 17.7* | 22.2 | 23.0 |
| Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 10.6 | 30.0 | 3.6 | 17.6 | 15.5 | 13.4 |
| Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 129.1 | 304.3 | 77.9 | 228.7 | 161.2 | 156.5 |
| Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 4.3 | 12.9 | 1.7 | 0.0* | 7.3 | 5.6 |
| Cancer Indicators | ||||||
| Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 67.8 | 68.8 | 25.6 | NA | 35.8 | 66.2 |
| Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 10.9 | 18.8 | s | NA | s | 11.2 |
| Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 36.0 | 44.3 | 29.1 | NA | 31.7 | 36.1 |
| Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 16.3 | 23.4 | s | NA | s | 16.9 |
| Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 43.0 | 37.1 | 46.2 | NA | 35.4 | 42.8 |
| Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 1.7 | s | s | NA | s | 1.7 |
| Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 6.4 | 16.2 | s | NA | s | 7.1 |
| Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2023)~~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| * | The rate or percentage is unstable. See the "Technical Notes" page |
| s | Data are suppressed. The data do not meet the criteria for confidentiality. |
| ~ | White non-Hispanic, Black (including Hispanic), Asian (including Hispanic, excluding Pacific Islanders), American Indian or Alaska Native (including Hispanic), and Hispanic (of any race). |
| ~~ | White non-Hispanic, Black (including Hispanic), Asian / Pacific Islander (including Hispanic), and Hispanic (of any race). |
| NA | Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability or data quality, or data not available. |
| ^ | APNCU: Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index. |
| In 2015, SPARCS transitioned from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. These two are not comparable, so ED and hospitalization data for 2016-and-forward should not be compared with earlier data. | |
| The 2018 population estimates are also used to calculate rates for 2019 and 2020. Later years are from the most recent Vintage estimates. |
