New York: State Summary
SNAPS data is derived from the 2000 U.S. Census and several 2003 CDC databases. For more information, see the Credits page.
State Health Department
- New York State Department of Health: Corning Tower Building 14th Floor, Albany
Population:
- Total Population: 18,976,457
- Males: 9,134,254
- Females: 9,842,203
Top 42 Languages spoken at home: (> 5000)
- English only (12,786,190)
- Spanish (2,416,050)
- Chinese (304,065)
- Italian (294,250)
- Russian (218,675)
- French (174,090)
- French Creole (114,615)
- Yiddish (113,390)
- Polish (111,709)
- Korean (101,999)
- German (92,690)
- Greek (86,535)
- Arabic (69,825)
- Hebrew (67,520)
- Tagalog (65,359)
- Urdu (52,225)
- Bengali (51,565)
- Cantonese (41,850)
- Portuguese (41,209)
- Hindi (40,945)
- Japanese (34,475)
- Kru, Ibo, Yoruba (33,950)
- Albanian (26,470)
- Persian (25,785)
- Ukrainian (23,303)
- Panjabi (22,265)
- Vietnamese (19,965)
- Malayalam (18,995)
- Mandarin (18,830)
- Hungarian (18,295)
- Serbocroatian (17,125)
- Romanian (17,064)
- Gujarathi (16,525)
- Turkish (16,365)
- Croatian (11,355)
- India, n.e.c. (10,880)
- Dutch (10,290)
- Armenian (8,455)
- Formosan (7,875)
- Thai (7,055)
- Patois (6,600)
- Tamil (5,990)
Top 5 Religions by Adherents:
- Catholic Church (7,550,491)
- Jewish Estimate (1,653,870)
- United Methodist Church, The (403,362)
- Muslim Estimate (223,968)
- American Baptist Churches in the USA (203,297)
Disabilities:
- Total Reported: 6,406,530
- Sensory: 493,493
- Physical: 1,389,159
- Mental: 827,717
- Self-care: 497,315
- Go outside home: 1,524,488
- Employment: 1,612,931
Grandparents as caregivers
Grandparents as caregivers: 143,014
Heating fuel:
- Total Reported: 7,056,860
- Utility gas: 3,651,779
- Bottled or LP gas: 237,949
- Electricity: 615,685
- Fuel oil, kerosene: 2,336,714
- Coal or Coke: 9,563
- Wood: 82,613
- Solar Energy: 2,539
- Other fuel: 73,671
- No fuel used: 46,347
Vehicles available:
- Total Reported: 12,661,449
- No vehicle: 3,491,335
- 1 or more vehicle: 9,170,114
Education Attainment:
- No School: 227,435
- No High School: 778,370
- Some High School: 1,620,519
- High School: 3,480,768
- Some College: 2,103,404
- Associate's Degree: 898,828
- College Degree: 1,954,242
- Master's Degree: 1,000,954
- Professional Degree: 341,628
- Doctoral Degree: 136,388
Household Phones:
- Households Reporting: 7,056,860
- Owners with phone: 3,720,170
- Owners without phone: 19,077
- Renters with phone: 3,203,986
- Renters without phone: 113,627
- Page last updated on Mar 12, 2007
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