Western New York 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) | 2,167,636 | 271,124 | 96,858 | 14,561 | 195,411 | 2,808,749 |
| Percentage of population (2024) | 77.2% | 9.7% | 3.4% | 0.5% | 7.0% | 100.0% |
| Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) | 23.4% | 12.7% | 8.7% | 17.1% | 7.2% | 20.4% |
| 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)~ | 11.6% | 37.6% | 29.2% | 26.2% | 32.6% | 18.5% |
| Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2020-2024)~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Percentage of population with no health insurance (2020-2024)~ | 3.4% | 4.6% | 4.1% | 8.7% | 5.7% | 3.8% |
| Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2020-2024)~ | 36.5% | 17.6% | 48.2% | 18.3% | 22.3% | 34.5% |
| Percentage of population in single parent families (2020-2024)~ | 12.5% | 43.8% | 10.9% | 37.6% | 38.6% | 16.5% |
| Percentage of population with a disability (2020-2024)~ | 14.7% | 17.3% | 8.4% | 0.4% | 16.2% | 14.8% |
| Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2020-2024)~ | 1.2% | 2.9% | 37.1% | 4.9% | 19.1% | 1.5% |
| Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2023-2024) | 5.3% | 12.2% | 2.6% | 12.2% | 15.1% | 7.4% |
| Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 14.2 | 75.1 | 5.0 | 43.4 | 31.5 | 20.5 |
| General Health Indicators | ||||||
| Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 810.1 | 1,205.1 | 418.2 | 954.6 | 699.1 | 837.9 |
| Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) | 39.2% | 66.6% | 51.9% | 68.6% | 69.1% | 43.0% |
| Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 6,940.8 | 16,352.5 | 3,498.3 | 15,712.4 | 8,516.7 | 7,990.1 |
| Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 (2022-2024) | 72.4 | 224.9 | 41.8 | 109.8 | 118.5 | 90.0 |
| Birth-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Number of births per year (3 year average) | 18,490 | 3,395 | 1,324 | 155 | 2,629 | 27,062 |
| Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care | 80.1% | 68.8% | 71.6% | 62.6% | 71.2% | 76.9% |
| Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ | 78.4% | 70.0% | 73.9% | 63.1% | 73.3% | 76.3% |
| Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) | 9.3% | 15.3% | 10.1% | 11.0% | 12.0% | 10.5% |
| Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) | 7.1% | 16.2% | 9.5% | 7.5% | 10.6% | 8.8% |
| Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years | 1.6 | 9.5 | 1.0 | NA | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 54.4 | 90.2 | 66.7 | NA | 73.8 | 65.0 |
| Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 47.9 | 56.3 | 59.7 | 53.7 | 59.7 | 51.1 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 3.7 | 12.1 | 4.0 | 6.5* | 7.7 | 5.5 |
| Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section | 28.9% | 29.1% | 33.4% | 30.9% | 28.2% | 29.0% |
| Injury-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 8.3 | 11.9 | 2.9* | 24.4 | 9.7 | 8.8 |
| Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 58.7 | 132.9 | 17.8 | 126.8 | 88.2 | 66.9 |
| Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 66.0 | 107.9 | 28.6 | 56.2 | 64.6 | 74.3 |
| Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older (2022-2024) | 178.6 | 134.6 | 66.2 | 110.9 | 122.8 | 183.1 |
| Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 8.2 | 19.5 | 2.6 | 9.9 | 11.8 | 9.9 |
| Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 11.8 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 11.0* | 6.3 | 10.9 |
| Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population | 181.8 | 358.7 | 29.2 | 321.3 | 279.6 | 208.3 |
| Respiratory Disease Indicators | ||||||
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 3.1 | 17.1 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 11.8 | 5.8 |
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years (2022-2024) | 7.7 | 43.7 | 12.0 | 9.2* | 25.7 | 15.3 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 33.9 | 28.6 | 12.9 | 34.6 | 15.0 | 32.9 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 10.6 | 35.6 | 6.6 | 13.3 | 21.1 | 14.3 |
| 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 | 162.7 | 220.7 | 72.9 | 170.9 | 116.8 | 165.3 |
| Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 61.2 | 125.4 | 38.9 | 58.8 | 71.6 | 69.8 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 29.8 | 53.3 | 26.4 | 19.7 | 26.2 | 31.4 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 17.7 | 41.8 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 23.8 | 20.9 |
| Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 104.9 | 143.6 | 47.8 | 126.7 | 76.8 | 106.8 |
| Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 15.3 | 21.7 | 14.3 | 15.5 | 19.8 | 17.0 |
| Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 20.8 | 20.1 | 8.5 | 14.3* | 13.0 | 20.5 |
| Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 35.6 | 84.8 | 11.7 | 38.4 | 27.0 | 40.2 |
| Diabetes Indicators | ||||||
| Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 20.1 | 49.9 | 13.4 | 51.5 | 28.0 | 22.5 |
| Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 13.5 | 48.3 | 5.8 | 33.4 | 27.8 | 17.8 |
| Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 142.5 | 401.4 | 124.6 | 273.9 | 287.4 | 177.5 |
| Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 6.2 | 22.7 | 2.6 | 8.3 | 11.0 | 8.1 |
| Cancer Indicators | ||||||
| Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 62.1 | 70.9 | 37.9 | NA | 44.6 | 62.2 |
| Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 12.4 | 17.1 | 11.1 | NA | 11.8 | 12.7 |
| Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 36.3 | 44.4 | 36.6 | NA | 30.7 | 36.9 |
| Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 17.0 | 24.8 | s | NA | 13.2 | 17.5 |
| Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 38.0 | 54.7 | 36.7 | NA | 38.0 | 39.9 |
| Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 1.9 | s | s | NA | s | 1.9 |
| Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 5.6 | 7.3 | s | NA | 10.7 | 6.0 |
| 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. |
