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

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2018) 699,654 125,737 35,673 53,013 919,941
Percentage of population (2018) 76.1% 13.7% 3.9% 5.8% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2018) 20.5% 11.7% 6.7% 6.3% 17.9%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2017-2021)~ 69,994 37,011 48,734 35,031 62,578
Percentage of families below poverty (2017-2021)~ 5.4% 21.9% 24.9% 31.5% 9.5%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2017-2021)~ 9.2% 39.2% 39.4% 41.0% 19.9%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2017-2021)~ 4.2% 10.2% 4.6% 7.5% 5.1%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2017-2021)~ 2.6% 4.1% 3.6% 4.4% 2.9%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2017-2021)~ 38.5% 19.1% 49.6% 24.4% 35.9%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2017-2021)~ 11.6% 42.1% 9.0% 43.2% 16.9%
Percentage of population with a disability (2017-2021)~ 13.1% 16.9% 7.0% 14.7% 13.5%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2017-2021)~ 1.3% 3.3% 39.6% 18.0% 1.8%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2021-2022) 4.1% 11.7% 6.5% 14.0% 6.6%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2019-2021) 11.6 63.4 5.1 33.8 19.2
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 770.1 1,072.5 371.8 725.4 804.9
Percentage of premature deaths (< 75 years) 36.0% 61.4% 50.0% 68.6% 40.3%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 6,208.3 12,654.3 2,433.0 8,544.6 7,238.8
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 82.6 269.5 55.0 151.1 107.9
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 5,851 1,869 623 780 9,639
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 85.9% 72.1% 72.3% 77.9% 80.9%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 82.0% 69.9% 71.7% 74.9% 77.7%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 9.1% 13.6% 8.6% 13.4% 10.2%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 7.0% 14.0% 7.7% 11.8% 8.8%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 1.4 12.2 1.0* 7.9 5.1
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 55.0 95.1 67.3 78.8 75.5
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 47.1 66.8 63.9 59.7 54.7
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 4.7 11.2 0.5* 11.1 6.5
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 30.3% 30.7% 30.5% 22.9% 29.7%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 4.6 8.1 1.7* 6.2* 5.1
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 41.6 58.3 5.7* 53.9 43.4
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 55.0 76.0 17.9 46.2 59.4
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 190.6 128.3 44.5 111.2 184.5
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 9.8 18.4 1.9 9.5 11.2
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 11.4 5.1 2.3* 7.4 10.1
Opioid burden per 100,000 population 225.7 196.4 10.3 267.9 230.3
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 2.8 14.9 5.3 13.8 5.6
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 6.0 27.6 10.1 23.5 12.2
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 36.6 32.9 4.8* 23.9 35.7
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 13.2 41.4 10.6 27.2 18.0
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2021)~~ 47% 30% 45% 36% 45%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 166.4 208.9 72.9 134.0 170.3
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 70.5 137.7 43.0 93.5 80.1
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 33.7 49.7 35.4 38.5 35.7
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 22.0 46.0 19.5 24.6 25.2
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 110.7 136.8 56.2 90.3 113.0
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 20.7 27.6 18.9 28.1 22.4
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 16.7 17.3 4.4* 9.1* 16.6
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 31.8 85.9 9.3 30.3 38.4
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 19.5 55.6 14.7* 38.9 24.0
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 12.5 47.6 6.3 28.8 17.9
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 142.4 406.5 117.4 297.9 182.4
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 5.6 26.9 3.0 12.6 8.7
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 68.4 74.9 28.8 46.4 68.3
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 11.5 17.3 s 9.0* 12.0
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 36.3 49.8 33.6 42.3 38.5
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 20.6 32.9 s 13.3* 22.0
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 41.3 54.2 17.3* 40.0 41.9
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 2.0 3.4* 0.0* s 2.1
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 7.4 9.5 s s 7.3
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2021)~~ 46% 39% 27% 38% 44%
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.