Westchester 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) | 500,801 | 134,919 | 69,342 | 1,307 | 282,448 | 1,006,447 |
| Percentage of population (2024) | 49.8% | 13.4% | 6.9% | 0.1% | 28.1% | 100.0% |
| Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) | 25.0% | 16.5% | 15.8% | 18.0% | 9.7% | 18.7% |
| Median annual household income in US dollars (2020-2024)~ | 149,651 | 81,382 | 168,003 | 78,250 | 84,656 | 118,976 |
| Percentage of families below poverty (2020-2024)~ | 3.5% | 9.7% | 4.4% | 21.9%* | 11.3% | 6.3% |
| Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2020-2024)~ | 4.5% | 18.6% | 4.0% | 19.9% | 17.0% | 10.5% |
| Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2020-2024)~ | 5.2% | 8.0% | 3.9% | 6.0%* | 7.3% | 6.1% |
| Percentage of population with no health insurance (2020-2024)~ | 2.1% | 5.1% | 2.8% | 22.4% | 10.9% | 5.1% |
| Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2020-2024)~ | 65.0% | 39.2% | 74.4% | 22.3% | 28.9% | 53.1% |
| Percentage of population in single parent families (2020-2024)~ | 5.9% | 27.2% | 5.7% | 20.2% | 21.5% | 12.3% |
| Percentage of population with a disability (2020-2024)~ | 10.7% | 14.4% | 6.3% | 17.6% | 10.3% | 10.7% |
| Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2020-2024)~ | 3.7% | 4.0% | 24.1% | 45.2% | 33.3% | 5.9% |
| Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2023-2024) | 0.8% | 4.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 5.5% | 2.8% |
| Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 5.3 | 40.3 | 2.2 | 15.2 | 23.5 | 14.9 |
| General Health Indicators | ||||||
| Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 540.4 | 661.0 | 306.6 | 137.8* | 412.6 | 545.9 |
| Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) | 26.6% | 54.4% | 38.6% | 33.3%* | 56.6% | 34.9% |
| Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 3,541.0 | 7,538.0 | 2,091.9 | 312.6 | 4,160.6 | 4,388.5 |
| Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 (2022-2024) | 44.3 | 135.5 | 22.0 | 127.0 | 61.6 | 70.5 |
| Birth-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Number of births per year (3 year average) | 4,094 | 1,205 | 700 | 2 | 3,616 | 9,887 |
| Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care | 84.5% | 67.5% | 78.4% | s | 70.2% | 76.4% |
| Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ | 85.4% | 66.9% | 79.6% | s | 69.4% | 76.4% |
| Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) | 7.7% | 12.8% | 9.1% | s | 9.6% | 9.2% |
| Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) | 6.0% | 12.8% | 8.9% | s | 7.8% | 7.8% |
| Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years | 0.5 | 5.4 | 0.3* | NA | 5.1 | 2.9 |
| Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 56.3 | 80.9 | 55.0 | NA | 83.3 | 71.1 |
| Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 50.2 | 44.1 | 50.5 | 9.4* | 61.8 | 53.4 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 1.5 | 6.1 | 0.5* | s | 3.5 | 3.1 |
| Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section | 32.8% | 38.7% | 33.5% | s | 31.8% | 33.3% |
| Injury-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 2.8 | 5.0 | 1.9* | 0.0* | 5.2 | 4.0 |
| Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 30.0 | 49.0 | 9.8 | 0.0* | 26.4 | 31.4 |
| Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 51.5 | 57.6 | 19.4 | 76.1 | 38.9 | 61.2 |
| Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older (2022-2024) | 201.8 | 111.6 | 61.5 | 160.6 | 101.6 | 195.9 |
| Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 4.3 | 8.0 | 1.9 | s | 3.4 | 5.8 |
| Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 7.9 | 6.0 | 3.8* | 0.0* | 5.0 | 7.0 |
| Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population | 111.7 | 305.9 | 12.8 | s | 102.0 | 145.7 |
| Respiratory Disease Indicators | ||||||
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 3.7 | 15.2 | 2.4 | 35.5 | 6.8 | 7.5 |
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years (2022-2024) | 9.2 | 30.0 | 5.2 | 100.4* | 12.5 | 16.4 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 18.6 | 15.5 | 6.2 | 0.0* | 9.6 | 16.7 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 7.8 | 22.3 | 3.6 | 37.3 | 10.6 | 12.4 |
| Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2023)~~ | 57% | 37% | 51% | 0% | 38% | 54% |
| Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators | ||||||
| Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 130.5 | 151.3 | 68.8 | 29.6* | 81.0 | 127.5 |
| Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 46.5 | 76.1 | 21.8 | 81.8 | 37.7 | 58.0 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 19.8 | 22.1 | 15.4 | 0.0* | 18.5 | 20.7 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 12.8 | 27.2 | 8.3 | 29.2 | 14.4 | 18.0 |
| Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 95.1 | 116.2 | 60.1 | 29.6* | 60.7 | 94.3 |
| Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 11.3 | 13.5 | 7.9 | 29.1 | 9.2 | 14.4 |
| Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 9.0 | 8.6 | 2.1* | 0.0* | 6.0 | 8.5 |
| Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 28.1 | 49.1 | 7.9 | 38.7 | 14.5 | 30.0 |
| Diabetes Indicators | ||||||
| Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 9.0 | 27.6 | 8.3 | 0.0* | 12.5 | 12.2 |
| Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 6.7 | 34.9 | 3.8 | 34.3 | 13.4 | 14.3 |
| Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 97.4 | 277.2 | 73.2 | 370.3 | 144.1 | 156.3 |
| Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 2.2 | 12.4 | 0.8 | s | 4.1 | 4.9 |
| Cancer Indicators | ||||||
| Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 42.6 | 40.5 | 28.7 | NA | 23.7 | 39.0 |
| Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 7.6 | 9.6 | s | NA | 7.7 | 7.8 |
| Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 34.1 | 35.3 | 21.9 | NA | 27.2 | 32.5 |
| Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 13.3 | 22.2 | 13.0 | NA | 7.7 | 13.8 |
| Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 41.6 | 54.7 | 39.3 | NA | 31.5 | 40.5 |
| Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | s | s | s | NA | s | 1.2 |
| Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 5.1 | 6.7 | s | NA | 8.4 | 6.3 |
| Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2023)~~ | 40% | 33% | 28% | NA | 29% | 38% |
| 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. |
