Bronx County Health Indicators by Race/Ethnicity, 2018-2020

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2018) 135,930 428,514 60,073 802,667 1,432,316
Percentage of population (2018) 9.5% 29.9% 4.2% 56.0% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2018) 26.9% 12.9% 12.2% 10.5% 12.9%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2017-2021)~ 70,622 44,064 64,650 38,223 43,726
Percentage of families below poverty (2017-2021)~ 7.8% 21.7% 17.0% 26.4% 22.8%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2017-2021)~ 17.7% 35.2% 28.6% 37.8% 35.4%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2017-2021)~ 8.0% 11.9% 7.1% 11.6% 11.2%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2017-2021)~ 4.2% 7.2% 5.0% 8.9% 7.8%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2017-2021)~ 41.5% 21.3% 37.7% 15.0% 20.9%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2017-2021)~ 9.5% 37.7% 11.4% 38.1% 33.7%
Percentage of population with a disability (2017-2021)~ 17.5% 14.9% 10.2% 15.9% 15.6%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2017-2021)~ 11.0% 10.6% 42.9% 36.8% 14.6%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2021-2022) 8.0% 12.9% 3.6% 15.0% 13.3%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2019-2021) 10.7 46.2 10.3 26.5 30.3
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 803.0 884.8 397.1 699.5 794.0
Percentage of premature deaths (< 75 years) 34.2% 59.4% 51.4% 54.9% 52.6%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 8,050.9 9,930.4 3,074.3 6,647.8 8,034.3
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 115.1 229.7 67.4 193.9 210.0
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 1,211 5,347 1,005 10,786 18,731
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 67.9% 55.7% 60.2% 60.3% 59.4%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 65.5% 58.5% 67.3% 62.0% 61.4%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 7.5% 11.7% 8.9% 10.0% 10.3%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 7.0% 12.4% 10.8% 9.3% 10.2%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 2.9 8.2 1.0* 7.4 7.7
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 76.5 100.8 82.7 88.9 98.6
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 55.1 58.3 73.8 58.3 59.8
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 3.3 6.9 1.3* 3.6 4.9
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 27.4% 32.6% 29.6% 28.8% 29.8%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 5.7 3.0 1.7* 2.6 3.1
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 65.0 40.5 10.8 39.2 42.2
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 78.3 78.7 26.6 70.4 87.6
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 209.1 131.0 69.3 156.2 190.4
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 15.9 22.0 2.6 16.7 20.6
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 8.9 5.0 4.2* 4.1 5.0
Opioid burden per 100,000 population 858.5 402.9 36.1 386.4 476.3
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 7.0 27.2 8.5 28.2 28.3
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 9.4 45.2 18.3 37.2 43.6
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 32.7 24.5 10.0 21.7 25.4
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 24.4 47.5 15.4 46.5 48.7
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2021)~~ 48% 31% 45% 32% 37%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 227.9 243.9 100.4 162.1 208.0
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 64.1 101.5 44.3 88.1 103.5
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 23.3 30.7 16.5 26.0 27.5
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 17.0 30.3 12.1 20.6 27.3
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 204.1 214.9 94.3 140.8 182.7
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 19.2 20.9 21.2 24.6 28.4
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 5.8 5.5 1.2* 4.9 5.6
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 40.5 61.8 16.7 40.4 52.6
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 20.0 33.4 17.8 26.9 28.0
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 18.8 42.7 8.4 35.5 39.7
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 188.2 386.0 173.0 369.1 395.4
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 5.2 14.5 1.4 10.2 12.4
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 57.0 52.3 39.3 37.5 45.1
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 14.6 13.3 6.1 10.9 12.4
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 45.6 39.4 31.8 31.8 36.1
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 20.9 26.6 s 15.7 19.9
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 47.8 51.8 44.7 32.1 40.7
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 3.3* 3.4 0.0* 2.3 2.7
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 9.7 11.6 7.3* 9.2 9.9
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2021)~~ 40% 37% 29% 31% 35%
Symbol Meaning
* The rate or percentage is unstable. See the "About" 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), 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, 2020, and 2021.