Greene County, NY

52,567 deaths recorded (1880-2017) 10,725 residents who died in a different NY county (1957-2017)

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Greene County is located in New York State. According to the New York State Death Index, 52,567 deaths were recorded in Greene County from 1880 to 2017.

Between 1957 and 2017, there were also 10,725 people who were usually residents of Greene County but who died in a different county in New York.

Deaths in Greene County Recorded by the New York State Department of Health (1880-2017)

About 95% of the "place of death" information in the New York State Death Index was able to be standardized and matched to a known locality (town, city, county). The graph below, and its data counts, do not include the approximately 5% of death index records where the location was illegible or could not be easily matched. Information about a person's usual residence at the time of their death is only available in the state death index from 1957 onwards.

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Towns & Cities in Greene County, New York

Many different localities within Greene County have recorded deaths over the years. Some of these places were actually neighborhoods or small hamlets (some now defunct, or consolidated into other locales) whose vital records information was eventually managed by a larger town or city they were within, or sometimes even by their county registrar. Some government-run facilties such as VA Hospitals and state-run developmental centers may have managed their own death registrations too, separately from the towns in which they were located.

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Statistics & Insights

Most Common Surnames

People who died in Greene County between 1880-2017, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-2017)

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Residents Who Died Elsewhere

Data for 1957-2017

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Age at Death Statistics for Greene County

Data for 1940-2017

Oldest Recorded Residents

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Average Age of Death in Greene County by Decade

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