Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2011

County Total Births Method of Delivery
Vaginal Delivery Cesarean Delivery 
# Vaginal # VBAC1 % VBAC2 #Cesarean %Cesarean3 #Primary %Primary #Repeat %Repeat Not Stated
New York State
New York State 239,736 156,855 3,963 10.6 81,858 34.3 48,559 20.3 33,299 13.9 1,023
New York City
New York City 118,719 79,944 2,275 13.5 38,476 32.5 23,860 20.1 14,616 12.3 299
Bronx 21,694 14,531 474 14.4 6,992 32.5 4,181 19.4 2,811 13.1 171
Kings 41,673 29,140 948 17.0 12,480 30.0 7,854 18.9 4,626 11.1 53
New York 19,508 12,969 267 11.9 6,494 33.4 4,516 23.2 1,978 10.2 45
Queens 30,300 19,873 490 10.5 10,398 34.3 6,219 20.5 4,179 13.8 29
Richmond 5,544 3,431 96 8.6 2,112 38.1 1,090 19.7 1,022 18.4 1
Rest of State
Rest of State 121,017 76,911 1,688 8.3 43,382 36.1 24,699 20.5 18,683 15.5 724
Albany 3,122 2,073 54 10.8 1,048 33.6 602 19.3 446 14.3 1
Allegany 526 335 5 5.8 161 32.5 80 16.1 81 16.3 30
Broome 2,052 1,294 26 7.4 756 36.9 429 20.9 327 16.0 2
Cattaraugus 911 572 5 3.7 251 30.5 121 14.7 130 15.8 88
Cayuga 803 547 8 8.2 255 31.8 166 20.7 89 11.1 1
Chautauqua 1,412 925 7 3.2 454 32.9 243 17.6 211 15.3 33
Chemung 1,025 696 18 12.2 328 32.0 198 19.3 130 12.7 1
Chenango 525 373 6 8.8 150 28.7 88 16.8 62 11.9 2
Clinton 769 479 3 3.1 290 37.7 195 25.4 95 12.4 0
Columbia 544 358 11 12.8 185 34.1 110 20.3 75 13.8 1
Cortland 481 316 2 2.4 162 33.9 82 17.2 80 16.7 3
Delaware 392 285 4 6.7 107 27.3 51 13.0 56 14.3 0
Dutchess 2,652 1,670 41 10.0 980 37.0 609 23.0 371 14.0 2
Erie 9,693 6,400 157 9.9 3,280 33.9 1,854 19.2 1,426 14.7 13
Essex 314 213 3 7.1 101 32.2 62 19.7 39 12.4 0
Franklin 521 304 7 8.5 210 40.9 135 26.3 75 14.6 7
Fulton 584 371 7 7.4 211 36.3 124 21.3 87 14.9 2
Genesee 586 404 9 9.7 181 30.9 97 16.6 84 14.4 1
Greene 428 275 0 0.0 152 35.6 77 18.0 75 17.6 1
Hamilton 39 25 0 0.0 14 35.9 6 15.4 8 20.5 0
Herkimer 659 431 3 2.7 218 33.6 109 16.8 109 16.8 10
Jefferson 2,113 1,612 47 16.2 495 23.5 252 12.0 243 11.5 6
Lewis 338 210 4 6.9 114 35.2 60 18.5 54 16.7 14
Livingston 577 407 11 12.6 169 29.3 93 16.1 76 13.2 1
Madison 696 462 9 6.9 226 32.8 104 15.1 122 17.7 8
Monroe 8,427 5,702 139 11.5 2,725 32.3 1,655 19.6 1,070 12.7 0
Montgomery 567 354 6 6.3 178 33.5 88 16.5 90 16.9 35
Nassau 14,079 8,438 178 6.7 5,638 40.1 3,161 22.5 2,477 17.6 3
Niagara 2,129 1,234 24 5.7 895 42.0 500 23.5 395 18.6 0
Oneida 2,689 1,685 17 3.8 1,002 37.3 572 21.3 430 16.0 2
Onondaga 5,416 3,673 80 9.4 1,742 32.2 975 18.0 767 14.2 1
Ontario 1,020 729 16 12.5 291 28.5 179 17.5 112 11.0 0
Orange 4,835 3,208 116 14.2 1,543 32.5 843 17.7 700 14.7 84
Orleans 411 293 1 2.2 116 28.4 72 17.6 44 10.8 2
Oswego 1,348 902 18 7.8 435 32.5 222 16.6 213 15.9 11
Otsego 535 380 9 12.2 145 27.6 80 15.2 65 12.4 10
Putnam 866 526 7 4.2 339 39.2 180 20.8 159 18.4 1
Rensselaer 1,730 1,128 20 9.1 601 34.8 402 23.3 199 11.5 1
Rockland 4,535 3,260 151 25.1 1,089 25.0 638 14.7 451 10.4 186
St Lawrence 1,254 684 12 5.3 513 42.9 298 24.9 215 18.0 57
Saratoga 2,148 1,371 19 5.8 776 36.1 469 21.8 307 14.3 1
Schenectady 1,764 1,202 43 15.9 562 31.9 334 18.9 228 12.9 0
Schoharie 288 207 5 12.2 81 28.1 45 15.6 36 12.5 0
Schuyler 161 94 1 3.3 67 41.6 38 23.6 29 18.0 0
Seneca 399 296 5 10.6 102 25.6 60 15.1 42 10.6 1
Steuben 1,058 658 13 8.7 340 34.1 204 20.4 136 13.6 60
Suffolk 16,027 8,975 115 3.4 7,041 44.0 3,733 23.3 3,308 20.7 11
Sullivan 808 542 11 9.2 260 32.4 151 18.8 109 13.6 6
Tioga 481 334 3 5.7 146 30.4 96 20.0 50 10.4 1
Tompkins 915 622 15 11.6 289 31.7 175 19.2 114 12.5 4
Ulster 1,666 1,040 27 9.4 618 37.3 357 21.5 261 15.7 8
Warren 601 380 5 5.7 221 36.8 138 23.0 83 13.8 0
Washington 655 430 4 4.5 224 34.3 140 21.4 84 12.8 1
Wayne 1,033 721 17 10.4 312 30.2 165 16.0 147 14.2 0
Westchester 10,719 6,324 146 7.8 4,390 41.0 2,660 24.8 1,730 16.1 5
Wyoming 389 251 1 1.8 132 34.5 76 19.8 56 14.6 6
Yates 302 231 17 40.5 71 23.5 46 15.2 25 8.3 0

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

2 VBAC % - VBAC/(VBAC+Repeat Cesarean)*100.

3 Cesarean % - Cesarean/All Births with Known Method*100.