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

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2018) 208,535 37,813 20,769 57,958 325,656
Percentage of population (2018) 64.0% 11.6% 6.4% 17.8% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2018) 18.2% 14.3% 18.2% 6.9% 15.7%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2017-2021)~ 102,626 96,224 150,650 74,871 99,707
Percentage of families below poverty (2017-2021)~ 10.7% 6.8% 2.0%* 13.6% 10.1%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2017-2021)~ 31.7% 8.6% 2.2% 23.2% 26.2%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2017-2021)~ 5.7% 6.2% 3.8% 7.0% 6.0%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2017-2021)~ 2.4% 5.8% 3.8% 9.9% 4.3%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2017-2021)~ 46.4% 31.7% 64.9% 24.1% 42.0%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2017-2021)~ 5.1% 21.8% 3.8% 23.4% 9.7%
Percentage of population with a disability (2017-2021)~ 9.0% 10.9% 9.0% 6.4% 8.7%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2017-2021)~ 14.1% 19.0% 25.5% 32.8% 8.0%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2021-2022) 1.5% 5.6% 0.8% 20.6% 8.7%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2019-2021) 5.4 26.7 2.3 22.2 10.9
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 641.4 609.0 320.8 584.2 637.0
Percentage of premature deaths (< 75 years) 31.9% 49.6% 45.4% 58.3% 36.7%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 4,776.9 5,360.4 2,543.4 5,627.0 5,039.0
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 73.0 136.1 42.2 97.9 86.4
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 4,030 339 191 1,067 5,718
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 77.5% 66.2% 81.1% 65.6% 74.5%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 78.4% 68.3% 79.9% 70.8% 76.2%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 5.0% 11.2% 10.1% 8.8% 6.3%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 4.5% 11.5% 10.5% 6.8% 5.6%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 0.3 1.6* 0.0* 6.6 1.6
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 124.4 54.8 42.2 93.5 106.0
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 119.0 43.4 48.1 85.4 98.2
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 2.4 4.9* 0.0* 3.7 2.8
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 12.5% 37.1% 28.4% 23.2% 17.2%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 4.2 6.9* 1.8* 6.1* 4.5
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 40.0 23.6 9.0* 33.6 35.9
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 70.0 66.4 26.4 60.7 72.1
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 196.9 87.0 62.6 112.0 178.9
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 5.3 3.0 1.9 3.2 4.8
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 7.7 0.8* 5.6* 5.0* 6.4
Opioid burden per 100,000 population 246.2 89.0 33.7 158.7 208.6
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 2.8 8.4 3.0 5.8 4.1
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 4.7 14.4 4.9* 4.8 6.7
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 28.0 20.1 7.9* 13.0 25.3
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 10.2 15.9 5.6 14.3 12.8
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2021)~~ 56% 35% 55% 44% 54%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 150.1 149.7 67.7 119.4 147.6
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 47.3 68.0 29.2 48.2 56.5
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 20.5 24.9 19.5 19.0 22.1
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 12.6 22.9 9.3 17.6 19.2
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 110.3 116.9 58.6 99.6 110.3
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 14.2 14.7 12.9 15.0 16.5
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 15.2 9.3 0.0* 4.2* 13.6
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 23.9 40.4 13.8 13.3 25.0
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 10.4 23.5 9.5* 14.2 13.1
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 7.8 24.5 5.3 15.1 11.8
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 124.3 269.6 105.7 205.5 170.1
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 2.6 13.8 s 5.6 4.8
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 55.0 30.3 25.3 29.8 48.1
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 10.9 12.4 0.0* 7.4* 10.0
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 38.7 32.3 23.6 35.3 36.3
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 17.3 15.6 s 10.6* 16.0
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 39.0 45.4 40.7 36.6 40.4
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) s s 0.0* 0.0* s
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 5.3 s s 14.1 7.0
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2021)~~ 46% 40% 43% 41% 45%
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.