Table 9: Live Births by Race/Ethnicity and Resident County

Vital Statistics of New York State 2004

  Race1 / Ethnicity
County Total1 White Black Other Not Stated Hispanic2
New York State
New York State 249,000 167,519 47,038 34,110 333 56,950
New York City
New York City 118,649 66,641 34,583 17,216 209 39,514
Bronx 22,197 11,701 9,267 1,194 35 12,211
Kings 39,724 20,975 14,238 4,461 50 9,073
New York 20,512 13,489 3,950 3,000 73 6,505
Queens 30,375 15,892 6,341 8,099 43 10,445
Richmond 5,841 4,584 787 462 8 1,280
Rest of State
Rest of State 130,351 100,878 12,455 16,894 124 17,436
Albany 3,063 2,211 581 271 0 177
Allegany 534 512 1 20 1 6
Broome 2,026 1,740 116 170 0 60
Cattaraugus 937 835 7 63 32 13
Cayuga 840 787 19 34 0 16
Chautauqua 1,434 1,348 24 52 10 94
Chemung 975 897 50 28 0 14
Chenango 526 516 0 10 0 7
Clinton 751 730 6 15 0 6
Columbia 585 494 29 59 3 36
Cortland 507 482 6 19 0 13
Delaware 437 418 7 12 0 12
Dutchess 3,167 2,274 308 585 0 443
Erie 10,207 7,521 1,743 938 5 541
Essex 379 368 1 10 0 5
Franklin 522 469 1 52 0 9
Fulton 549 519 9 21 0 17
Genesee 626 588 16 22 0 21
Greene 444 413 9 22 0 15
Hamilton 38 36 0 2 0 0
Herkimer 698 673 6 19 0 16
Jefferson 1,511 1,323 83 105 0 93
Lewis 284 273 6 5 0 2
Livingston 634 611 4 19 0 17
Madison 704 679 3 21 1 4
Monroe 8,537 6,241 1,741 554 1 753
Montgomery 611 534 10 64 3 108
Nassau 15,626 10,234 1,627 3,763 2 3,332
Niagara 2,319 1,965 200 154 0 59
Oneida 2,576 2,215 207 153 1 116
Onondaga 5,596 4,130 816 649 1 293
Ontario 1,072 994 23 53 2 51
Orange 5,206 4,001 410 790 5 1,071
Orleans 454 423 13 17 1 30
Oswego 1,356 1,325 5 26 0 22
Otsego 546 522 3 21 0 15
Putnam 1,164 1,038 17 109 0 152
Rensselaer 1,741 1,492 133 114 2 62
Rockland 4,548 3,127 443 975 3 819
St Lawrence 1,227 1,154 8 40 25 10
Saratoga 2,409 2,267 15 127 0 56
Schenectady 1,833 1,317 225 291 0 149
Schoharie 290 284 1 5 0 4
Schuyler 187 181 0 6 0 2
Seneca 337 317 6 12 2 7
Steuben 1,088 1,046 11 30 1 13
Suffolk 19,643 14,581 1,427 3,629 6 4,478
Sullivan 837 713 83 40 1 149
Tioga 565 548 0 15 2 6
Tompkins 915 722 30 160 3 36
Ulster 1,839 1,587 111 139 2 196
Warren 618 591 3 24 0 9
Washington 642 628 1 13 0 11
Wayne 1,118 1,018 32 67 1 63
Westchester 12,405 8,315 1,817 2,266 7 3,714
Wyoming 430 420 0 10 0 8
Yates 238 231 2 4 1 5
  1. Race variable is coded differently for births recorded in NYS Exclusive of NYC and births recorded in NYC. For this table, "White Alone" is pooled with "White" and "Black Alone" is pooled with "Black". See the Technical Notes for details.
  2. Hispanic Births is a separate count equal to Hispanic White + Hispanic Black + Hispanic Other + Hispanic Not Stated