The files below contain the total population, number of people in each major racial category, and the number of Hispanics Latinos in each census tract within a county.  A file containing this data for the entire state also is available.

Since the files included on this page contain county and tract data only, they currently have no revisions.

Revised Population and Housing Unit Counts

Changes in Racial Classification in 2000
The standards used for classification of the population by race have been revised to take into account the changing racial and ethnic makeup of the nation’s population. The Federal Office of Management and Budget announced revised standards in October of 1997 and those standards are used for Census 2000.

The minimum set of racial categories now includes:

• American Indian or Alaska Native,
  
• Asian,
  
• Black or African American,
  
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander,
  
• White, and
  
• Some Other Race– included in the Census with special OMB approval.

 

For the first time, respondents may also select one or more races when they self-identify. This was not possible in 1990. Those who identified themselves as two or more races can be presented as a total category of "Two or More Races" or as various combinations of the racial categories. Reporting all of the multi-racial combinations provides data for 63 separate racial groups. Most users will rely on distributions showing the six minimal categories and the total for "Two or More Races" – this is the distribution shown here.

Please Note: The Hispanic origin population can be of any race and is already included in the racial distribution.

Get the entire New York state data file.

 

County Data Files

Albany	Allegany	Bronx	Broome	Cattaraugus
Cayuga	Chautauqua	Chemung	Chenango	Clinton
Columbia	Cortland	Delaware	Dutchess	Erie
Essex	Franklin	Fulton	Genesee	Greene
Hamilton	Herkimer	Jefferson	Kings	Lewis
Livingston	Madison	Monroe	Montgomery	Nassau
New York	Niagara	Oneida	Onondaga	Ontario
Orange	Orleans	Oswego	Otsego	Putnam
Queens	Rensselaer	Richmond	Rockland	St. Lawrence
Saratoga	Schenectady	Schoharie	Schuyler	Seneca
Steuben	Suffolk	Sullivan	Tioga	Tompkins
Ulster	Warren	Washington	Wayne	Westchester
Wyoming	Yates

 

Column Heading  Definitions

Heading	Meaning
SUMLEV	Summary level (‘050’=County, ‘140’=Census Tract")
COUNTY	FIPS County Code
TRACT	Census Tract Number (four digits, implied decimal point, two-digit suffix)
MSACMSA	Metropolitan Statistical Area Number (‘9999’=Not in a metropolitan statistical area)
CMSA	Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area Number (‘99’=Not in a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area)
PMSA	Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area Number (‘9999’=Not in a Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area)
AREALAND	Land area in square meters. Divide this by 2,589,988 to get square miles.
AREAWATR	Water area in square meters. Divide this by 2,589,988 to get square miles.
NAME	Area Name
INTPLAT	Latitude in degrees of a point inside the area. Six implied decimal places.
INTPLON	Longitude in degrees of a point inside the area. Six implied decimal places.
TOTPOP	Total Population
ONERACE	Number of persons marking only one race on the census questionnaire
WHITEAL	Number of persons marking "white" as their only race
BLACKAL	Number of persons marking "black , African American, or Negro" as their only race
AMERINAL	Number of persons marking "American Indian or Alaska Native" as their only race
ASIANAL	Number of persons marking "Asian" as their only race
PACISAL	Number of persons marking "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" as their only race
OTHERAL	Number of persons marking "Some Other Race" as their only race
TWOPLUS	Number of persons marking two or more racial categories
HISPANIC	Number of persons marking "Spanish Hispanic Latino as their ethnicity. These people are also included in the racial categories above depending on which race(s) they identified themselves as.

 

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