Table 9: Live Births by Resident County and Race/Ethnicity
New York State 1997

County Total1 White Black Other Not Stated Hispanic2

New York State 256,976 183,073 54,948 17,847 1,108 50,747
New York City 118,902 64,415 40,481 13,443 563 39,078
Bronx 22,457 11,234 10,275 824 124 11,887
Kings 39,746 20,294 16,263 3,109 80 9,264
New York 19,366 11,296 5,652 2,160 258 7,016
Queens 31,623 17,018 7,490 7,021 94 10,110
Richmond 5,710 4,573 801 329 7 801
Rest of State 138,074 118,658 14,467 4,404 545 11,669
Albany 3,276 2,577 565 112 22 107
Allegany 560 554 3 3 0 5
Broome 2,201 1,998 120 81 2 49
Cattaraugus 1,046 921 8 73 44 8
Cayuga 933 912 16 3 2 8
Chautauqua 1,624 1,561 30 21 12 96
Chemung 1,037 967 59 11 0 10
Chenango 609 601 2 5 1 6
Clinton 795 780 6 9 0 6
Columbia 664 613 42 8 1 24
Cortland 562 555 1 5 1 12
Delaware 491 474 8 7 2 9
Dutchess 3,399 2,888 393 114 4 252
Erie 11,635 9,167 2,152 272 44 371
Essex 391 385 4 2 0 0
Franklin 465 427 3 29 6 3
Fulton 626 618 2 5 1 9
Genesee 755 712 24 19 0 11
Greene 491 464 10 7 10 17
Hamilton 46 46 0 0 0 0
Herkimer 700 694 1 3 2 8
Jefferson 1,734 1,569 127 37 1 79
Lewis 336 332 1 3 0 1
Livingston 706 689 10 7 0 15
Madison 826 804 7 15 0 7
Monroe 9,622 7,261 1,975 347 39 705
Montgomery 594 570 6 7 11 44
Nassau 17,100 14,230 2,037 808 25 2,548
Niagara 2,641 2,315 249 76 1 37
Oneida 2,702 2,430 197 70 5 92
Onondaga 5,972 4,777 968 222 5 193
Ontario 1,180 1,132 31 16 1 41
Orange 4,869 4,349 412 92 16 703
Orleans 550 513 31 6 0 13
Oswego 1,445 1,426 6 13 0 22
Otsego 586 565 9 12 0 5
Putnam 1,227 1,187 17 21 2 56
Rensselaer 1,784 1,603 122 45 14 46
Rockland 4,341 3,538 578 208 17 472
St Lawrence 1,181 1,124 9 28 20 9
Saratoga 2,405 2,329 33 37 6 19
Schenectady 1,750 1,505 187 44 14 62
Schoharie 341 333 1 7 0 5
Schuyler 205 201 2 1 1 1
Seneca 374 365 5 4 0 6
Steuben 1,186 1,154 16 13 3 6
Suffolk 19,862 17,546 1,681 577 58 2,686
Sullivan 839 767 63 9 0 98
Tioga 642 628 7 7 0 7
Tompkins 857 744 35 75 3 16
Ulster 1,922 1,757 110 32 23 100
Warren 689 675 1 10 3 8
Washington 610 595 2 7 6 8
Wayne 1,261 1,198 49 13 1 36
Westchester 12,655 9,766 2,033 741 115 2,502
Wyoming 443 440 1 2 0 4
Yates 331 327 0 3 1 6

1 Total Births = White + Black + Other + Not Stated
2 Hispanic Births is a separate count equal to Hispanic White + Hispanic Black + Hispanic Other + Hispanic Not Stated

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