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Table 50: Divorces by County of Occurrence and Legal Grounds
New York State 1998

  Legal Grounds
            After After
      Abandon- Imprison-   Legal Separation Not
  Total Cruelty ment ment Adultery Separation by Agreement Stated

New York State 56,768 16,631 32,364 77 288 168 4,953 2,287
New York City 23,375 2,841 18,907 43 53 22 824 685
Bronx 1,980 271 1,560 5 6 0 55 83
Kings 4,938 492 3,850 9 12 8 175 392
New York 12,166 1,584 10,046 23 25 9 393 86
Queens 3,433 403 2,838 4 9 4 155 20
Richmond 858 91 613 2 1 1 46 104
Rest of State 33,393 13,790 13,457 34 235 146 4,129 1,602
Albany 937 290 371 3 10 10 228 25
Allegany 171 117 40 0 3 1 10 0
Broome 665 370 163 1 0 1 119 11
Cattaraugus 266 220 31 0 0 0 14 1
Cayuga 228 129 48 1 0 2 35 13
Chautauqua 479 334 56 0 5 2 34 48
Chemung 429 261 102 0 13 0 43 10
Chenango 209 136 40 0 1 0 18 14
Clinton 298 174 66 1 3 2 45 7
Columbia 216 62 92 0 3 1 54 4
Cortland 149 71 37 0 1 2 32 6
Delaware 152 54 74 0 3 0 15 6
Dutchess 787 261 372 1 12 1 108 32
Erie 2,736 2,061 403 7 2 6 244 13
Essex 110 57 24 1 0 0 24 4
Franklin 177 97 36 1 10 1 31 1
Fulton 210 113 70 0 0 0 25 2
Genesee 226 180 22 0 0 2 19 3
Greene 134 52 43 0 0 0 30 9
Hamilton 14 8 3 0 0 0 3 0
Herkimer 201 120 44 0 2 0 33 2
Jefferson 482 331 104 1 9 0 27 10
Lewis 57 36 9 0 1 0 10 1
Livingston 186 122 24 0 6 1 24 9
Madison 229 153 38 0 2 3 32 1
Monroe 2,568 1,546 433 3 10 27 403 146
Montgomery 167 84 55 0 0 0 20 8
Nassau 3,820 308 3,130 1 4 9 320 48
Niagara 691 573 49 1 0 0 45 23
Oneida 822 549 148 0 1 6 86 32
Onondaga 1,631 867 368 2 15 6 291 82
Ontario 355 242 55 0 1 4 50 3
Orange 952 304 494 1 4 4 130 15
Orleans 147 103 16 0 1 1 15 11
Oswego 424 212 103 2 0 5 53 49
Otsego 183 79 55 0 2 2 37 8
Putnam 239 57 131 0 0 0 21 30
Rensselaer 545 174 229 1 6 2 121 12
Rockland 738 139 471 0 17 2 74 35
St Lawrence 363 222 73 0 3 1 35 29
Saratoga 675 277 186 0 19 6 156 31
Schenectady 466 203 147 1 4 3 90 18
Schoharie 111 45 34 0 1 1 28 2
Schuyler 82 54 7 0 0 1 17 3
Seneca 137 103 22 0 0 3 5 4
Steuben 308 209 40 0 2 0 39 18
Suffolk 3,572 228 2,725 4 10 10 283 312
Sullivan 236 69 85 0 3 1 30 48
Tioga 176 93 47 0 2 2 31 1
Tompkins 293 126 84 0 6 0 76 1
Ulster 595 180 262 0 15 7 124 7
Warren 286 165 70 0 2 2 39 8
Washington 217 130 48 0 4 0 29 6
Wayne 336 227 54 0 2 0 42 11
Westchester 2,316 259 1,503 1 14 6 167 366
Wyoming 109 87 12 0 0 0 8 2
Yates 85 67 9 0 1 0 7 1

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