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

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2018) 523,155 138,568 63,962 241,477 968,928
Percentage of population (2018) 54.0% 14.3% 6.6% 24.9% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2018) 22.7% 14.2% 13.3% 7.7% 17.1%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2017-2021)~ 130,547 69,421 148,089 75,894 105,387
Percentage of families below poverty (2017-2021)~ 2.5% 10.3% 4.7% 10.3% 5.5%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2017-2021)~ 3.6% 17.7% 6.9% 15.1% 9.5%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2017-2021)~ 5.4% 7.4% 5.0% 6.7% 6.1%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2017-2021)~ 2.2% 5.6% 3.8% 11.1% 5.1%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2017-2021)~ 61.9% 35.4% 72.9% 25.5% 50.6%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2017-2021)~ 5.7% 29.7% 5.5% 21.3% 12.2%
Percentage of population with a disability (2017-2021)~ 10.1% 12.4% 5.3% 8.5% 9.7%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2017-2021)~ 3.8% 4.8% 25.6% 34.4% 5.7%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2021-2022) 0.7% 6.6% 0.1% 7.5% 3.7%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2019-2021) 5.3 41.5 1.8 20.6 14.1
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 572.1 708.4 319.7 509.0 588.2
Percentage of premature deaths (< 75 years) 27.0% 53.0% 39.6% 55.2% 34.4%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 4,080.7 7,038.5 2,293.3 4,418.1 4,625.9
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 55.7 191.3 23.5 53.8 95.3
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 4,090 1,356 712 3,490 9,884
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 87.3% 71.6% 82.7% 77.1% 81.0%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 84.4% 62.7% 78.0% 67.0% 74.6%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 7.8% 12.9% 8.5% 9.1% 9.1%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 5.7% 13.4% 8.2% 8.0% 7.8%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 0.5 5.8 0.2* 4.4 2.8
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 55.8 77.3 47.4 81.4 71.3
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 49.5 46.8 49.7 65.2 55.0
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 2.3 5.9 3.3* 3.6 3.8
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 31.1% 37.6% 33.5% 31.2% 32.3%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 2.7 5.7 2.6* 3.2 3.5
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 31.8 31.1 10.7 21.3 27.9
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 45.7 54.3 18.9 27.3 60.4
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 171.6 95.3 60.7 67.4 204.0
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 5.2 9.5 1.7 3.2 7.4
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 8.2 3.9 5.3 4.9 6.7
Opioid burden per 100,000 population 181.1 286.7 14.6 138.0 198.1
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 2.6 16.1 1.6 3.9 7.3
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 4.5 25.1 3.4 5.0 11.9
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 22.1 25.7 6.9 11.2 21.3
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 8.9 30.1 2.8 8.8 16.8
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2021)~~ 59% 37% 53% 40% 55%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 140.4 178.1 65.3 105.8 141.8
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 43.8 79.7 20.9 32.5 66.1
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 18.8 30.1 16.1 22.7 21.6
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 12.8 31.2 9.1 10.8 20.1
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 104.7 136.4 54.4 81.3 106.4
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 12.9 18.1 8.8 9.7 19.8
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 9.4 7.1 4.1* 6.0 8.9
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 26.9 47.7 6.6 9.9 33.1
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 9.3 28.6 10.1 18.7 13.2
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 6.4 32.0 3.0 9.1 14.2
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 88.2 296.0 63.6 115.9 169.6
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 1.8 10.6 0.5* 1.9 4.4
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 51.5 40.8 30.6 31.7 46.6
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 9.6 13.5 5.2 7.7 9.8
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 32.5 39.5 29.6 32.3 33.2
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 17.2 25.1 10.0 13.8 17.9
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 42.6 47.4 32.4 36.9 41.5
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 1.1 s s s 1.2
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 4.5 7.6 6.5* 6.2 5.4
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2021)~~ 49% 41% 37% 39% 47%
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, 2020, and 2021.