Figure 14. Additional detailed analysis of counties. This table is similar to Figure 7 but contains additional demographic data about the counties and includes the size of the incarcerated Latino population in each county.
County Population Non-Hispanic White Percent Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Black Percent Non-Hispanic Black Hispanic Percent Hispanic Prisoners Black Prisoners Latino Prisoners
Albany County 294,565 240,913 81.79% 31,514 10.70% 9,079 3.08% 0 0 0
Allegany County 49,927 48,222 96.59% 349 0.70% 454 0.91% 0 0 0
Bronx County 1,332,650 193,651 14.53% 416,338 31.24% 644,705 48.38% 232 87 140
Broome County 200,536 181,339 90.43% 6,256 3.12% 3,986 1.99% 0 0 0
Cattaraugus County 83,955 78,934 94.02% 839 1.00% 791 0.94% 0 0 0
Cayuga County 81,963 75,762 92.43% 3,166 3.86% 1,611 1.97% 3,014 1,562 842
Chautauqua County 139,750 128,481 91.94% 2,820 2.02% 5,901 4.22% 1,308 601 452
Chemung County 91,070 82,131 90.18% 5,150 5.65% 1,609 1.77% 2,742 1,518 708
Chenango County 51,401 49,815 96.91% 403 0.78% 548 1.07% 256 135 78
Clinton County 79,894 73,729 92.28% 2,694 3.37% 1,964 2.46% 3,808 1,888 1,117
Columbia County 63,094 57,338 90.88% 2,738 4.34% 1,598 2.53% 615 319 131
Cortland County 48,599 46,748 96.19% 399 0.82% 565 1.16% 0 0 0
Delaware County 48,055 45,693 95.08% 529 1.10% 983 2.05% 0 0 0
Dutchess County 280,150 224,913 80.28% 25,059 8.94% 18,060 6.45% 6,008 3,122 1,904
Erie County 950,265 767,476 80.76% 121,289 12.76% 31,054 3.27% 4,959 2,329 1,289
Essex County 38,851 36,346 93.55% 1,025 2.64% 851 2.19% 999 436 345
Franklin County 51,134 42,233 82.59% 3,180 6.22% 2,053 4.01% 5,443 2,735 1,866
Fulton County 55,073 52,374 95.10% 937 1.70% 884 1.61% 492 253 174
Genesee County 60,370 56,799 94.08% 1,217 2.02% 904 1.50% 0 0 0
Greene County 48,195 42,640 88.47% 2,518 5.22% 2,075 4.31% 2,863 1,533 897
Hamilton County 5,379 5,223 97.10% 24 0.45% 57 1.06% 0 0 0
Herkimer County 64,427 62,667 97.27% 305 0.47% 580 0.90% 0 0 0
Jefferson County 111,738 97,389 87.16% 6,257 5.60% 4,677 4.19% 2,159 1,149 740
Kings County 2,465,326 854,532 34.66% 848,583 34.42% 487,878 19.79% 0 0 0
Lewis County 26,944 26,363 97.84% 100 0.37% 172 0.64% 0 0 0
Livingston County 64,328 59,748 92.88% 1,836 2.85% 1,459 2.27% 2,394 1,151 600
Madison County 69,441 66,564 95.86% 870 1.25% 734 1.06% 257 148 69
Monroe County 735,343 566,763 77.07% 98,174 13.35% 39,065 5.31% 101 35 14
Montgomery County 49,708 45,084 90.70% 457 0.92% 3,433 6.91% 0 0 0
Nassau County 1,334,544 986,947 73.95% 129,860 9.73% 133,282 9.99% 0 0 0
New York County 1,537,195 703,873 45.79% 234,698 15.27% 417,816 27.18% 1,263 639 516
Niagara County 219,846 197,757 89.95% 13,356 6.08% 2,913 1.33% 0 0 0
Oneida County 235,469 208,600 88.59% 12,937 5.49% 7,545 3.20% 6,187 2,986 2,196
Onondaga County 458,336 383,599 83.69% 41,772 9.11% 11,175 2.44% 0 0 0
Ontario County 100,224 94,179 93.97% 1,904 1.90% 2,149 2.14% 0 0 0
Orange County 341,367 264,760 77.56% 25,567 7.49% 39,738 11.64% 1,497 811 455
Orleans County 44,171 38,552 87.28% 3,047 6.90% 1,719 3.89% 2,851 1,528 847
Oswego County 122,377 118,110 96.51% 674 0.55% 1,592 1.30% 0 0 0
Otsego County 61,676 58,321 94.56% 1,014 1.64% 1,171 1.90% 0 0 0
Putnam County 95,745 85,973 89.79% 1,437 1.50% 5,976 6.24% 0 0 0
Queens County 2,229,379 732,895 32.87% 422,831 18.97% 556,605 24.97% 604 343 178
Rensselaer County 152,538 137,562 90.18% 6,870 4.50% 3,225 2.11% 0 0 0
Richmond County 443,728 316,316 71.29% 39,704 8.95% 53,550 12.07% 959 471 332
Rockland County 286,753 205,653 71.72% 30,139 10.51% 29,182 10.18% 0 0 0
St. Lawrence County 111,931 104,777 93.61% 2,531 2.26% 2,008 1.79% 3,132 1,642 1,084
Saratoga County 200,635 190,840 95.12% 2,628 1.31% 2,834 1.41% 872 407 240
Schenectady County 146,555 126,538 86.34% 9,456 6.45% 4,639 3.17% 0 0 0
Schoharie County 31,582 30,112 95.35% 377 1.19% 588 1.86% 245 106 74
Schuyler County 19,224 18,417 95.80% 265 1.38% 235 1.22% 291 147 73
Seneca County 33,342 31,338 93.99% 720 2.16% 659 1.98% 0 0 0
Steuben County 98,726 94,689 95.91% 1,329 1.35% 796 0.81% 0 0 0
Suffolk County 1,419,369 1,118,405 78.80% 93,262 6.57% 149,411 10.53% 0 0 0
Sullivan County 73,966 59,225 80.07% 5,897 7.97% 6,839 9.25% 1,784 876 567
Tioga County 51,784 50,180 96.90% 270 0.52% 509 0.98% 0 0 0
Tompkins County 96,501 80,916 83.85% 3,307 3.43% 2,968 3.08% 0 0 0
Ulster County 177,749 152,064 85.55% 9,044 5.09% 10,941 6.16% 3,281 1,703 1,109
Warren County 63,303 61,276 96.80% 371 0.59% 663 1.05% 0 0 0
Washington County 61,042 57,378 94.00% 1,703 2.79% 1,232 2.02% 2,739 1,442 832
Wayne County 93,765 86,770 92.54% 2,961 3.16% 2,263 2.41% 537 289 158
Westchester County 923,459 591,776 64.08% 125,227 13.56% 144,124 15.61% 3,582 1,940 1,089
Wyoming County 43,424 39,330 90.57% 2,309 5.32% 1,278 2.94% 3,992 2,118 1,138
Yates County 24,621 23,983 97.41% 130 0.53% 228 0.93% 0 0 0

Sources and methodology

Population
Census 2000 Summary File 1, Table P001001. Total Population for the groups of counties.
Non-Hispanic White
Census 2000 Summary File 1, Table P004005. Total population: Not Hispanic or Latino; Population of one race; White alone
Percent Non-Hispanic White
This is the number of Non-Hispanic Whites divided by the total population of the county.
Non-Hispanic Black
Census 2000 Summary File 1, Table P004006. Total population: Not Hispanic or Latino; Population of one race; Black or African American alone
Percent Non-Hispanic Black
This is the number of Non-Hispanic Blacks divided by the total population of the county.
Hispanic
Census 2000 Summary File 1, Table P004002. Total population: Hispanic or Latino
Percent Hispanic
This is the number of Hispanics divided by the total population of the county.
Prisoners
Each prison was mapped from the Department of Correctional Services facility list. The individual prison populations were drawn from Department of Correctional Services, State of New York, The Hub System: Profile of Inmates Undercustody on January 1, 2000, table 3, "total" column, and then aggregated to the county level.
Black Prisoners
Each prison was mapped from the Department of Correctional Services facility list. The individual prison populations were drawn from Department of Correctional Services, State of New York, The Hub System: Profile of Inmates Undercustody on January 1, 2000, table 3, "African-American" column, and then aggregated to the county level.
Latino Prisoners
Each prison was mapped from the Department of Correctional Services facility list. The individual prison populations were drawn from Department of Correctional Services, State of New York, The Hub System: Profile of Inmates Undercustody on January 1, 2000, table 3, "Hispanic" column, and then aggregated to the county level.

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