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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2017 Feb;54(1):285–309. doi: 10.1007/s13524-016-0545-z

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics and wDb indexes computed using two methods for CBSAsa in New York, 2005–2009 ACS, and wDb indexes from the 2000 and 2010 census

CBSA Name Tracts Population Point Estimates Zero-PopulationTracts (%) ACS, Numerical Method Standard Calculation


Total Black % Black Lower Median Upper Range 2000 ACS 2010
Metropolitan Areas
 Albany-Schenectady-Troy 214 852,162 55,591 7.7 18 60.8 62.9 65.0 4.2 62.4 63.7 61.3
 Binghamton 65 245,576 8,104 3.7 22 50.3 55.1 59.8 9.5 51.0 56.9 51.8
 Buffalo-Niagara Falls 302 1,128,813 132,826 14.5 25 72.5 73.7 75.0 2.6 78.0 74.5 73.2
 Elmira 23 88,161 4,919 6.3 9 43.8 50.4 57.2 13.5 52.6 50.9 50.1
 Glens Falls 33 128,229 2,287 1.9 33 57.4 64.8 72.2 14.8 69.0 71.2 58.1
 Ithaca 23 100,583 3,244 4.0 4 39.7 47.1 54.4 14.7 33.9 45.6 30.1
 Kingston 49 181,510 9,761 6.4 10 47.7 52.5 57.3 9.6 43.8 52.1 41.3
 New York-Northern NJ-Long Island 4,505 18,912,644 3,124,875 32.1 16 78.5 78.7 79.0 0.5 80.2 79.1 78.0
 Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown 133 668,735 60,743 12.4 2 48.0 50.3 52.7 4.7 52.7 49.1 47.7
 Rochester 253 1,033,026 110,767 13.4 9 65.1 66.6 68.1 3.0 67.9 66.5 65.3
 Syracuse 189 645,302 46,082 8.3 21 67.2 69.1 71.1 3.9 71.4 70.5 67.8
 Utica-Rome 92 293,468 12,799 4.9 25 64.4 68.2 71.9 7.5 65.4 71.2 64.7
 Average 490 2,023,184 297,667 9.6 16 57.9 61.6 65.3 7.4 60.7 62.6 57.5
Micropolitan Areas
 Amsterdam 16 48,632 600 1.4 25 39.7 52.1 64.9 25.3 33.7 54.7 40.0
 Auburn 20 79,994 2,866 3.9 15 61.8 69.6 77.1 15.3 63.9 70.5 59.4
 Batavia 15 58,208 1,231 2.3 0 30.4 42.8 55.3 24.9 44.4 36.8 41.8
 Corning 30 96,674 1,418 1.5 27 37.4 46.0 54.7 17.3 36.5 46.1 38.3
 Cortland 12 48,207 740 1.6 33 34.0 49.1 64.2 30.2 31.7 55.7 34.7
 Gloversville 15 55,031 886 1.7 33 32.9 44.7 56.8 24.0 42.6 49.6 37.0
 Hudson 20 62,217 3,052 5.5 15 52.5 63.0 73.1 20.6 59.7 63.6 56.9
 Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia 34 134,078 2,455 2.0 21 41.2 48.9 56.7 15.5 54.9 48.3 47.1
 Malone 13 50,374 3,458 8.4 38 64.0 71.0 78.0 14.0 71.1 73.7 77.3
 Ogdensburg-Massena 28 109,742 3,039 3.0 14 59.9 66.4 72.3 12.4 67.1 69.1 62.7
 Olean 21 80,349 954 1.3 33 44.7 55.4 66.2 21.5 42.5 61.1 39.7
 Oneonta 16 62,086 1,162 2.0 13 36.5 45.8 55.3 18.7 47.5 43.2 45.6
 Plattsburgh 19 81,755 2,567 3.4 26 56.7 64.4 72.1 15.4 57.1 67.6 52.4
 Seneca Falls 10 34,181 1,512 4.9 20 52.3 61.8 70.7 18.3 51.5 64.4 67.2
 Watertown-Fort Drum 23 117,595 5,420 5.3 4 42.7 47.8 53.5 10.8 46.7 45.6 37.6
 Average 19 74,608 2,091 3.2 21 45.8 55.3 64.7 18.9 50.1 56.7 49.2
Average of All Areas 229 940,642 133,458 6.1 19 51.2 58.1 65.0 13.8 54.8 59.3 52.9
a

Core-cased statistical areas