Table 14a: New York State Hospital Deliveries by Method of Delivery and Resident County, New York State - SPARCS DATA+ - 2006

Method of Delivery
Vaginal Delivery Cesarean Delivery
County Total Deliveries* # Vaginal # VBAC1 % VBAC2 # Cesarean % Cesarean3 # Primary % Primary # Repeat % Repeat Unknown
New York State
New York State 238,565 160,745 3,740 10.9 77,810 32.6 47,335 19.8 30,475 12.8 10
New York City
New York City 116,267 80,397 1,978 13.3 35,864 30.8 23,008 19.8 12,856 11.1 6
Bronx 21,931 15,170 430 14.2 6,761 30.8 4,155 18.9 2,606 11.9 0
Kings 38,993 27,843 756 16.2 11,148 28.6 7,240 18.6 3,908 10.0 2
New York 20,120 13,745 277 12.0 6,372 31.7 4,347 21.6 2,025 10.1 3
Queens 29,654 20,103 431 11.0 9,550 32.2 6,059 20.4 3,491 11.8 1
Richmond 5,569 3,536 84 9.2 2,033 36.5 1,207 21.7 826 14.8 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 122,298 80,348 1,762 9.1 41,946 34.3 24,327 19.9 17,619 14.4 4
Albany 2,949 2,039 53 13.3 910 30.9 563 19.1 347 11.8 0
Allegany 461 313 3 4.1 148 32.1 78 16.9 70 15.2 0
Broome 2,123 1,500 45 14.3 623 29.3 354 16.7 269 12.7 0
Cattaraugus 835 556 9 6.6 279 33.4 151 18.1 128 15.3 0
Cayuga 787 586 5 5.1 201 25.5 108 13.7 93 11.8 0
Chautauqua 1,373 903 9 4.0 470 34.2 252 18.4 218 15.9 0
Chemung 904 603 15 11.5 301 33.3 186 20.6 115 12.7 0
Chenango 526 374 8 10.4 152 28.9 83 15.8 69 13.1 0
Clinton 728 528 5 6.0 200 27.5 122 16.8 78 10.7 0
Columbia 544 370 8 10.3 174 32.0 104 19.1 70 12.9 0
Cortland 472 324 1 1.8 147 31.2 92 19.5 55 11.7 1
Delaware 409 287 5 8.5 122 29.8 68 16.6 54 13.2 0
Dutchess 2,804 1,833 42 9.6 971 34.6 576 20.5 395 14.1 0
Erie 9,778 6,650 184 12.3 3,128 32.0 1,816 18.6 1,312 13.4 0
Essex 254 167 0 0.0 87 34.3 50 19.7 37 14.6 0
Franklin 534 373 7 8.3 161 30.1 84 15.7 77 14.4 0
Fulton 573 390 4 5.1 183 31.9 108 18.8 75 13.1 0
Genesee 609 408 12 10.5 201 33.0 99 16.3 102 16.7 0
Greene 430 299 6 10.3 131 30.5 79 18.4 52 12.1 0
Hamilton 26 18 1 20.0 8 30.8 4 15.4 4 15.4 0
Herkimer 577 388 9 10.2 189 32.8 110 19.1 79 13.7 0
Jefferson 1,650 1,260 32 16.6 390 23.6 229 13.9 161 9.8 0
Lewis 308 203 6 11.8 105 34.1 60 19.5 45 14.6 0
Livingston 628 450 10 11.5 178 28.3 101 16.1 77 12.3 0
Madison 673 468 12 12.6 205 30.5 122 18.1 83 12.3 0
Monroe 8,710 6,170 136 11.6 2,540 29.2 1,507 17.3 1,033 11.9 0
Montgomery 592 402 3 3.8 190 32.1 114 19.3 76 12.8 0
Nassau 14,537 8,789 190 7.4 5,748 39.5 3,368 23.2 2,380 16.4 0
Niagara 2,150 1,369 21 5.8 781 36.3 437 20.3 344 16.0 0
Oneida 2,621 1,749 40 10.1 872 33.3 516 19.7 356 13.6 0
Onondaga 5,396 3,783 73 9.6 1,613 29.9 925 17.1 688 12.8 0
Ontario 1,079 796 21 16.3 283 26.2 175 16.2 108 10.0 0
Orange 4,802 3,196 112 13.7 1,605 33.4 901 18.8 704 14.7 1
Orleans 442 312 6 8.3 130 29.4 64 14.5 66 14.9 0
Oswego 1,363 910 18 9.8 453 33.2 288 21.1 165 12.1 0
Otsego 552 401 8 12.7 151 27.4 96 17.4 55 10.0 0
Putnam 934 592 11 7.0 342 36.6 196 21.0 146 15.6 0
Rensselaer 1,583 1,130 29 13.9 453 28.6 274 17.3 179 11.3 0
Rockland 4,140 3,040 137 22.1 1,100 26.6 616 14.9 484 11.7 0
St Lawrence 1,158 740 11 6.9 418 36.1 270 23.3 148 12.8 0
Saratoga 2,230 1,442 24 6.6 788 35.3 451 20.2 337 15.1 0
Schenectady 1,830 1,313 32 12.6 517 28.3 295 16.1 222 12.1 0
Schoharie 281 220 6 17.6 61 21.7 33 11.7 28 10.0 0
Schuyler 144 98 2 8.0 46 31.9 23 16.0 23 16.0 0
Seneca 291 197 4 12.1 94 32.3 65 22.3 29 10.0 0
Steuben 1,010 692 6 4.1 318 31.5 177 17.5 141 14.0 0
Suffolk 18,466 10,839 184 5.3 7,625 41.3 4,339 23.5 3,286 17.8 2
Sullivan 841 541 1 0.8 300 35.7 178 21.2 122 14.5 0
Tioga 362 243 12 20.0 119 32.9 71 19.6 48 13.3 0
Tompkins 815 587 9 9.8 228 28.0 145 17.8 83 10.2 0
Ulster 1,700 1,074 25 9.1 626 36.8 377 22.2 249 14.6 0
Warren 574 415 5 6.2 159 27.7 83 14.5 76 13.2 0
Washington 566 372 1 1.1 194 34.3 102 18.0 92 16.3 0
Wayne 1,082 706 9 4.8 376 34.8 196 18.1 180 16.6 0
Westchester 10,508 6,530 127 7.2 3,978 37.9 2,341 22.3 1,637 15.6 0
Wyoming 366 253 5 9.3 113 30.9 64 17.5 49 13.4 0
Yates 218 157 3 13.0 61 28.0 41 18.8 20 9.2 0

+ See Technical Notes for an explanation of how SPARCS and Vital Statistics data differ.

* Total deliveries is a count of deliveries in a hospital regardless of the birth outcome (unit of analysis is the mother).

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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