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

Health Indicator Non-Hispanic Hispanic Total
White Black Asian/Pacific
Islander
Socio-Demographic Indicators
Population (2018) 291,505 46,997 49,206 87,899 476,531
Percentage of population (2018) 61.2% 9.9% 10.3% 18.4% 100.0%
Percentage of population aged 65 years or older (2018) 20.3% 10.4% 14.1% 7.4% 16.3%
Median annual household income in US dollars (2017-2021)~ 98,714 57,517 87,751 72,303 89,427
Percentage of families below poverty (2017-2021)~ 4.7% 22.7% 7.9% 14.4% 8.0%
Percentage of children under age 18 below poverty (2017-2021)~ 8.2% 28.5% 14.6% 19.1% 13.7%
Percentage unemployed among the civilian labor force (2017-2021)~ 4.9% 7.2% 5.3% 6.5% 5.5%
Percentage of population with no health insurance (2017-2021)~ 2.6% 4.0% 5.3% 8.6% 4.1%
Percentage of population aged 25 years or older with a bachelor's degree or higher (2017-2021)~ 38.3% 28.2% 38.2% 22.1% 34.9%
Percentage of population in single parent families (2017-2021)~ 7.3% 32.1% 11.3% 25.2% 12.6%
Percentage of population with a disability (2017-2021)~ 11.2% 10.8% 6.0% 8.1% 10.0%
Percentage of population who speak English less than very well (2017-2021)~ 7.9% 1.9% 45.3% 17.2% 5.7%
Percentage of high school students who dropped out (2021-2022) 3.1% 14.8% 1.9% 11.4% 6.9%
Arrests per 1,000 population aged 18 years or older (2019-2021) 8.8 68.1 6.0 24.7 16.8
General Health Indicators
Total mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 716.3 859.4 435.9 628.0 720.4
Percentage of premature deaths (< 75 years) 37.7% 66.5% 43.6% 58.6% 43.0%
Years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 5,588.6 9,605.8 2,692.4 5,615.3 6,014.9
Potentially preventable hospitalizations among adults, age-adjusted rate per 10,000 98.7 233.0 45.8 124.2 114.4
Birth-Related Indicators
Number of births per year (3 year average) 2,527 563 590 1,182 5,053
Percentage of births with early (1st trimester) prenatal care 90.2% 80.2% 87.0% 84.1% 87.0%
Percentage of births with adequate prenatal care (APNCU)^ 80.8% 74.7% 82.4% 79.1% 79.6%
Percentage of premature births (< 37 weeks gestation - clinical estimate) 7.4% 14.4% 8.4% 11.1% 9.2%
Percentage of low birthweight births (< 2.5 kg) 6.4% 13.0% 6.9% 8.9% 7.8%
Teen pregnancies per 1,000 females aged under 18 years 0.9 8.5 0.6* 5.7 3.4
Pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 59.9 97.5 61.3 78.4 73.4
Fertility per 1,000 females aged 15-44 years 50.1 53.9 59.3 59.2 55.6
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births 2.5 5.3* 2.8* 3.4 3.6
Percentage of low-risk births delivered by cesarean section 27.5% 26.0% 22.2% 23.8% 25.6%
Injury-Related Indicators
Motor vehicle-related mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 2.7 6.7* 1.3* 6.0 3.7
Unintentional injury mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 43.0 40.5 9.1 28.3 37.5
Unintentional injury hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 77.6 78.6 30.1 67.5 78.8
Fall hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 65 years or older 263.5 132.2 80.2 169.8 240.7
Poisoning hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 9.2 11.9 2.1 7.3 9.1
Suicide mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 8.0 3.3* 6.2 2.3* 6.6
Opioid burden per 100,000 population 388.0 300.7 17.6 242.3 329.9
Respiratory Disease Indicators
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 3.7 25.8 3.0 13.5 8.1
Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, aged 0-17 years 4.4 45.5 3.5 14.7 13.0
Chronic lower respiratory disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 28.0 24.1 3.4* 11.4 25.4
Chronic lower respiratory disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 16.2 49.1 6.5 25.8 21.1
Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination (2021)~~ 47% 32% 48% 39% 46%
Heart Disease and Stroke Indicators
Diseases of the heart mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 244.1 277.3 139.5 197.0 243.6
Diseases of the heart hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 83.8 120.5 37.2 66.2 87.5
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 15.0 18.3 17.6 18.7 16.1
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 19.3 37.1 11.7 21.5 22.0
Coronary heart disease mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 223.6 262.3 129.4 186.9 224.8
Coronary heart disease hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 25.2 30.3 14.1 20.8 26.8
Congestive heart failure mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 4.5 3.4* 1.4* 2.8* 4.2
Potentially preventable heart failure hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 41.4 64.8 14.0 21.5 39.2
Diabetes Indicators
Diabetes mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted 20.7 39.8 11.7 32.9 24.0
Diabetes (primary diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 14.3 45.4 5.7 24.5 18.9
Diabetes (any diagnosis) hospitalizations per 10,000 population, age-adjusted 193.2 402.6 123.6 271.8 228.6
Potentially preventable diabetes short-term complications hospitalization rate per 10,000 population aged 18 years or older 3.6 20.5 1.6 8.0 6.1
Cancer Indicators
Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 70.7 55.9 54.6 41.4 65.9
Colorectal cancer mortality per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 14.2 16.6 4.1* 11.2 13.5
Colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 41.5 42.1 39.2 42.1 41.2
Female breast cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 17.9 14.5 10.1 17.7 17.9
Female late stage breast cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 46.1 47.1 38.0 31.8 43.2
Cervix uteri cancer mortality per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 1.7 s s 0.0* 1.5
Cervical cancer incidence per 100,000 female population, age-adjusted (2017-2019) 7.4 13.8* 7.9* 9.3 7.6
Percentage of female fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees aged 65-74 years who received an annual mammography screening (2021)~~ 41% 33% 33% 34% 40%
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.