Nassau County 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) | 744,694 | 162,854 | 193,708 | 2,193 | 266,861 | 1,392,438 |
| Percentage of population (2024) | 53.5% | 11.7% | 13.9% | 0.2% | 19.2% | 100.0% |
| Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) | 25.1% | 15.1% | 13.1% | 11.8% | 9.8% | 19.2% |
| Median annual household income in US dollars (2020-2024)~ | 149,366 | 133,815 | 173,750 | 148,712 | 129,548 | 146,202 |
| Percentage of families below poverty (2020-2024)~ | 2.2% | 5.5% | 4.4% | 12.0%* | 6.9% | 3.6% |
| Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2020-2024)~ | 2.0% | 10.9% | 6.8% | 20.4% | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2020-2024)~ | 4.4% | 6.4% | 4.0% | 8.0%* | 5.2% | 4.8% |
| Percentage of population with no health insurance (2020-2024)~ | 1.8% | 3.5% | 4.7% | 12.2% | 9.0% | 3.8% |
| Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2020-2024)~ | 55.4% | 37.5% | 64.7% | 21.5% | 27.1% | 49.7% |
| Percentage of population in single parent families (2020-2024)~ | 4.9% | 22.1% | 6.7% | 7.6% | 18.1% | 9.2% |
| Percentage of population with a disability (2020-2024)~ | 11.0% | 8.7% | 6.6% | 16.3% | 7.2% | 9.4% |
| Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2020-2024)~ | 2.4% | 6.3% | 28.6% | 32.7% | 33.1% | 5.2% |
| Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2023-2024) | 0.4% | 2.1% | 0.5% | 8.7% | 5.7% | 1.9% |
| Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 6.3 | 36.4 | 6.1 | 23.8 | 21.6 | 12.8 |
| General Health Indicators | ||||||
| Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 615.6 | 596.6 | 372.3 | 159.0 | 433.8 | 595.5 |
| Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) | 28.9% | 52.0% | 41.7% | 60.0%* | 52.0% | 34.0% |
| Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 4,188.5 | 6,124.6 | 2,356.8 | 2,002.2 | 4,030.4 | 4,363.5 |
| Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 (2022-2024) | 64.1 | 141.1 | 41.7 | 140.6 | 79.0 | 81.3 |
| Birth-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Number of births per year (3 year average) | 6,458 | 1,314 | 2,068 | 3 | 3,592 | 13,803 |
| Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care | 92.2% | 77.7% | 85.1% | s | 77.1% | 85.7% |
| Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ | 88.6% | 82.4% | 85.1% | s | 82.5% | 85.8% |
| Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) | 8.3% | 13.4% | 9.2% | s | 10.4% | 9.5% |
| Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) | 6.6% | 12.5% | 10.5% | s | 8.6% | 8.4% |
| Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years | 0.3 | 2.3 | 0.2* | NA | 4.9 | 1.7 |
| Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 58.3 | 63.5 | 63.7 | NA | 83.1 | 67.7 |
| Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 52.1 | 39.8 | 56.7 | 6.6* | 68.4 | 55.1 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 1.9 | 6.6 | 3.2 | s | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section | 31.5% | 37.6% | 32.5% | s | 28.4% | 31.6% |
| Injury-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 5.5 | 8.3 | 3.7 | 0.0* | 7.5 | 6.3 |
| Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 37.3 | 36.0 | 11.7 | 22.5* | 33.9 | 34.3 |
| Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 71.6 | 60.0 | 36.8 | 144.8 | 51.8 | 74.3 |
| Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older (2022-2024) | 262.0 | 119.4 | 109.4 | 383.6 | 113.3 | 239.8 |
| Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 6.2 | 8.7 | 2.8 | 10.3* | 5.0 | 6.8 |
| Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 6.9 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.0* | 2.6 | 5.4 |
| Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population | 162.3 | 186.3 | 14.7 | s | 91.5 | 138.1 |
| Respiratory Disease Indicators | ||||||
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 4.1 | 13.4 | 4.6 | 11.6* | 8.3 | 7.1 |
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years (2022-2024) | 8.3 | 28.8 | 10.2 | s | 17.0 | 15.8 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 17.2 | 7.9 | 4.9 | 0.0* | 7.8 | 14.9 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 9.7 | 20.8 | 6.5 | 14.2* | 11.6 | 12.7 |
| Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2023)~~ | 56% | 35% | 51% | 53% | 38% | 54% |
| Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators | ||||||
| Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 180.9 | 176.0 | 96.9 | 53.0* | 100.6 | 171.3 |
| Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 69.4 | 86.8 | 49.1 | 141.4 | 49.1 | 75.9 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 25.8 | 28.6 | 17.4 | 13.7* | 19.9 | 26.1 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 15.4 | 30.1 | 13.6 | 47.5 | 13.3 | 19.1 |
| Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 146.6 | 151.3 | 79.8 | 53.0* | 83.5 | 139.8 |
| Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 17.9 | 19.5 | 22.5 | 58.1 | 15.6 | 21.2 |
| Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 9.4 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 0.0* | 6.4 | 8.7 |
| Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 39.8 | 51.1 | 14.0 | 49.3 | 15.9 | 36.2 |
| Diabetes Indicators | ||||||
| Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 10.5 | 20.4 | 13.7 | 0.0* | 10.3 | 11.8 |
| Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 9.1 | 30.3 | 6.6 | 35.6 | 18.3 | 14.2 |
| Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 137.0 | 292.1 | 158.0 | 543.3 | 178.6 | 181.9 |
| Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 2.4 | 9.3 | 1.3 | s | 5.7 | 4.1 |
| Cancer Indicators | ||||||
| Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 52.7 | 35.6 | 33.8 | NA | 24.7 | 46.9 |
| Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 10.9 | 13.0 | 9.4 | NA | 5.5 | 10.5 |
| Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 39.7 | 37.8 | 31.5 | NA | 25.3 | 37.4 |
| Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 17.1 | 25.8 | 9.9 | NA | 9.2 | 16.8 |
| Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 41.0 | 47.9 | 39.1 | NA | 29.9 | 40.4 |
| Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 0.8 | s | s | NA | s | 1.1 |
| Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 4.1 | 5.5 | 6.0 | NA | 9.4 | 5.6 |
| Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2023)~~ | 40% | 33% | 30% | 27% | 30% | 39% |
| 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. |
