Western NY 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) | 1,197,964 | 146,788 | 59,413 | 11,648 | 94,522 | 1,543,929 |
| Percentage of population (2024) | 77.6% | 9.5% | 3.8% | 0.8% | 6.1% | 100.0% |
| Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2023) | 23.4% | 13.3% | 7.3% | 15.8% | 7.0% | 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)~ | 12.7% | 33.6% | 32.6% | 21.8% | 34.3% | 19.2% |
| Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2020-2024)~ | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Percentage of population with no health insurance (2020-2024)~ | 3.2% | 3.9% | 4.1% | 8.6% | 5.4% | 3.5% |
| Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2020-2024)~ | 34.4% | 18.0% | 44.5% | 19.2% | 24.0% | 32.8% |
| Percentage of population in single parent families (2020-2024)~ | 12.9% | 42.4% | 7.2% | 38.4% | 38.4% | 16.5% |
| Percentage of population with a disability (2020-2024)~ | 14.8% | 16.7% | 7.8% | 0.5% | 15.0% | 14.7% |
| Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2020-2024)~ | 1.1% | 3.2% | 39.5% | 2.6% | 17.4% | 1.5% |
| Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2023-2024) | 5.2% | 10.6% | 2.6% | 13.6% | 14.2% | 6.9% |
| Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 15.2 | 78.8 | 5.2 | 52.4 | 34.3 | 21.7 |
| General Health Indicators | ||||||
| Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 837.8 | 1,228.6 | 463.8 | 1,118.0 | 690.3 | 866.0 |
| Percentage of deaths that are premature (< 75 years) | 39.9% | 65.8% | 55.9% | 69.5% | 70.2% | 43.6% |
| Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 7,173.1 | 16,750.3 | 3,775.9 | 17,786.5 | 8,530.0 | 8,223.1 |
| Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 (2022-2024) | 69.1 | 213.2 | 44.3 | 132.0 | 94.7 | 84.0 |
| Birth-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Number of births per year (3 year average) | 10,008 | 1,783 | 872 | 141 | 1,297 | 14,737 |
| Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care | 82.7% | 70.8% | 71.2% | 63.3% | 75.3% | 79.3% |
| Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ | 82.5% | 71.2% | 75.1% | 63.4% | 77.5% | 79.7% |
| Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) | 10.0% | 14.5% | 10.4% | 10.7% | 12.2% | 10.8% |
| Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) | 7.6% | 15.5% | 10.4% | 7.3% | 10.3% | 9.1% |
| Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years | 1.7 | 9.1 | 0.8* | NA | 5.1 | 3.6 |
| Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 52.9 | 83.7 | 72.5 | NA | 70.0 | 64.3 |
| Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years | 47.2 | 54.8 | 65.7 | 59.5 | 60.2 | 51.0 |
| Infant mortality per 1,000 live births | 3.5 | 13.5 | 5.4 | 7.1* | 7.7 | 5.5 |
| Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section | 32.1% | 33.0% | 34.0% | 33.3% | 31.1% | 32.1% |
| Injury-Related Indicators | ||||||
| Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 8.6 | 11.2 | 1.0* | 24.2* | 7.3 | 8.8 |
| Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 57.9 | 122.9 | 14.3 | 143.3 | 84.8 | 64.8 |
| Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 55.7 | 80.0 | 21.2 | 60.8 | 40.7 | 60.1 |
| Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older (2022-2024) | 171.6 | 128.5 | 57.9 | 128.8 | 109.1 | 173.3 |
| Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 8.0 | 19.0 | 2.8 | 11.1 | 8.3 | 9.3 |
| Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 11.0 | 4.8 | 9.8 | 10.7* | 6.8 | 10.3 |
| Overdose deaths involving opioids, and non-fatal opioid related hospital events per 100,000 population | 210.7 | 338.7 | 28.5 | 367.2 | 240.3 | 228.1 |
| Respiratory Disease Indicators | ||||||
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 3.3 | 14.7 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 9.5 | 5.3 |
| Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years (2022-2024) | 8.9 | 39.7 | 14.4 | 10.5* | 25.2 | 14.8 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 36.8 | 31.8 | 18.2 | 40.0 | 15.3 | 35.9 |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 10.3 | 32.9 | 7.3 | 16.1 | 17.0 | 13.2 |
| 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 | 173.6 | 224.8 | 96.0 | 201.5 | 125.7 | 176.1 |
| Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 63.4 | 124.5 | 47.5 | 65.9 | 67.2 | 70.7 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 30.9 | 61.3 | 34.5 | 17.8* | 28.3 | 33.1 |
| Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 19.2 | 44.3 | 20.1 | 19.6 | 22.2 | 21.8 |
| Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 111.6 | 144.4 | 61.1 | 152.1 | 81.6 | 113.4 |
| Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 16.5 | 23.8 | 18.2 | 17.8 | 19.6 | 18.0 |
| Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 22.7 | 18.8 | 8.6* | 13.2* | 15.3 | 22.3 |
| Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 33.2 | 79.0 | 12.5 | 41.5 | 22.6 | 37.2 |
| Diabetes Indicators | ||||||
| Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted | 22.1 | 55.0 | 21.0 | 67.0 | 34.6 | 24.8 |
| Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 13.2 | 47.7 | 5.8 | 40.5 | 21.4 | 16.9 |
| Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted (2022-2024) | 135.2 | 365.2 | 135.4 | 317.6 | 227.4 | 164.0 |
| Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older (2022-2024) | 6.2 | 23.6 | 2.2 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 7.9 |
| Cancer Indicators | ||||||
| Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 63.8 | 70.9 | 44.2 | NA | 36.4 | 63.8 |
| Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 13.0 | 17.6 | s | NA | s | 13.3 |
| Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 37.0 | 46.5 | 28.8 | NA | 28.7 | 37.6 |
| Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 16.5 | 25.8 | s | NA | 19.6 | 17.4 |
| Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 38.0 | 52.8 | 40.9 | NA | 40.6 | 40.0 |
| Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 2.3 | s | s | NA | s | 2.3 |
| Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2020-2022) | 6.4 | s | s | NA | s | 6.4 |
| 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. |
