Rensselaer County Health Indicators by Race and Ethnicity, 2020-2022

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2023) 128,242 12,190 4,880 9,915 159,305
Percentage of population (2023) 80.5% 7.7% 3.1% 6.2% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) 21.9% 8.4% 6.4% 5.6% 19.0%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2018-2022)~ 87,025 45,150 93,912 80,483 83,734
Percentage of families below poverty (2018-2022)~ 5.6% 32.0% 10.7%* 13.7% 7.8%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2018-2022)~ 10.0% 40.7% 18.0% 27.3% 16.6%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2018-2022)~ 4.5% 13.9% 3.5%* 11.7% 5.6%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2018-2022)~ 2.7% 5.4% 3.2%* 5.3% 3.1%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2018-2022)~ 35.3% 21.8% 72.8% 33.1% 35.4%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2018-2022)~ 12.8% 56.5% 6.5% 35.0% 16.5%
Percentage of population with a disability (2018-2022)~ 14.6% 20.9% 3.8%* 12.8% 14.5%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2018-2022)~ 1.1% 1.9% 28.1% 9.6% 0.8%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2022-2023) 4.7% 12.8% s 9.7% 6.3%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2021-2023) 13.4 87.8 3.8 28.4 19.0
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 826.5 1,178.6 434.4 645.7 848.9
Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) 39.8% 73.1% 61.8% 66.7% 42.7%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 6,190.7 15,231.8 3,762.2 6,565.1 7,061.5
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 70.1 175.8 13.9* 96.7 78.1
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 1,099 177 60 128 1,514
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 82.3% 68.8% 70.6% 71.7% 78.9%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 84.7% 77.0% 74.1% 76.9% 82.4%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 8.7% 14.2% 5.0%* 9.7% 9.3%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 7.0% 14.9% 6.7% 7.6% 8.1%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 2.6 10.7 3.6* 8.2 4.1
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 58.7 120.5 54.4 82.7 67.5
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 46.4 60.4 46.2 54.5 49.0
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 1.2* 9.4* 0.0* 13.1* 3.5
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 28.2% 33.3% 36.9% 27.5% 28.9%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 6.0 16.0* 0.0* 13.6* 6.8
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 29.7 56.3 0.0* 46.5 32.8
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 63.1 76.6 13.2 42.5 68.4
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 198.4 160.9 s 157.4 211.6
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 9.9 14.0 s 7.0 10.5
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 10.8 7.0* 24.1* 2.7* 10.2
Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population 191.0 232.7 s 138.1 198.5
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 1.9 14.2 s 4.3 3.5
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 4.4 26.6 s 7.4* 8.0
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 44.8 23.2* 0.0* 7.5* 42.9
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 7.9 25.5 s 10.5 9.9
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2022)~~ 54% 40% 40% 38% 53%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 172.0 250.9 78.6* 151.0 175.5
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 68.2 121.0 14.0 68.9 75.4
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 25.4 64.3 30.5* 18.7* 26.8
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 19.9 38.9 s 18.0 22.4
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 106.3 136.6 61.0* 118.8 108.0
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 17.4 21.7 s 14.3 19.3
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 14.7 12.3* 0.0* 0.0* 14.5
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 32.0 48.1 s 23.9 33.0
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 21.1 59.2 17.6* 11.5* 22.6
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 13.1 36.6 s 25.4 15.7
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 157.0 407.4 44.6 218.0 181.6
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 5.7 18.0 0.0* 8.3 6.8
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) 80.7 61.4 s s 78.9
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) 9.3 s 0.0 s 9.8
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) 30.3 s s s 30.8
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) 19.1 s 0.0 0.0 18.9
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) 45.3 s s s 45.9
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) s s 0.0 0.0 s
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2019-2021) s s s 0.0 7.2
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2022)~~ 37% 30% 29% 32% 37%
Symbol Meaning
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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), 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.