Using data provided by Westchester County, we can get some sense of disparities in receiving shots in Greenburgh. The data is organized by zip codes and, while covering all of Greenburgh, it also includes large parts of adjacent communities, including all of Scarsdale, and significant portions of White Plains, Valhalla and Sleepy Hollow. The county data shows that for the 168,723 people in Greenburgh zips and adjacent communities, 7% have received the first dose only, 9% have received both doses, with 16% having received just one or both. Within the zip codes, however, there are wide variations, ranging from 25% in Ardsley getting at least one shot down to 10% in the White Plains zips that include Greenburgh and Elmsford.
We can gain some further context and maybe insight by ranking the twelve zip codes by per capita income, age and race (measured here by % white according to the US Census). Seeing that vaccination rates are lowest in zip codes where people of color form the majority is troubling, although median age may be something of a mitigating factor.
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