Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2013

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 235,274 153,341 4,503 11.8 80,310 34.4 46,517 19.9 33,793 14.5 1,623
New York City
New York City 115,994 77,753 2,356 13.8 38,190 32.9 23,466 20.2 14,724 12.7 51
Bronx 21,156 14,147 468 14.1 7,002 33.1 4,147 19.6 2,855 13.5 7
Kings 41,060 28,758 1,044 18.4 12,282 29.9 7,639 18.6 4,643 11.3 20
New York 18,423 12,113 288 12.9 6,302 34.2 4,365 23.7 1,937 10.5 8
Queens 30,074 19,424 475 9.9 10,636 35.4 6,299 21.0 4,337 14.4 14
Richmond 5,281 3,311 81 7.8 1,968 37.3 1,016 19.2 952 18.0 2
Rest of State
Rest of State 119,280 75,588 2,147 10.1 42,120 35.8 23,051 19.6 19,069 16.2 1,572
Albany 3,137 2,086 68 13.1 1,050 33.5 598 19.1 452 14.4 1
Allegany 473 296 7 9.7 142 32.4 77 17.6 65 14.8 35
Broome 2,061 1,287 33 7.9 769 37.4 383 18.6 386 18.8 5
Cattaraugus 909 551 2 1.5 269 32.8 140 17.1 129 15.7 89
Cayuga 741 504 6 6.6 237 32.0 152 20.5 85 11.5 0
Chautauqua 1,340 821 2 1.0 464 36.1 260 20.2 204 15.9 55
Chemung 938 653 15 10.4 271 29.3 142 15.4 129 14.0 14
Chenango 499 328 5 7.5 168 33.9 106 21.4 62 12.5 3
Clinton 730 450 9 7.8 277 38.1 171 23.5 106 14.6 3
Columbia 539 356 7 8.2 178 33.3 100 18.7 78 14.6 5
Cortland 471 315 6 8.2 149 32.1 82 17.7 67 14.4 7
Delaware 376 244 3 6.0 127 34.2 80 21.6 47 12.7 5
Dutchess 2,594 1,546 62 13.2 971 38.6 565 22.4 406 16.1 77
Erie 9,873 6,426 173 9.8 3,434 34.8 1,850 18.8 1,584 16.1 13
Essex 307 190 4 8.7 116 37.9 74 24.2 42 13.7 1
Franklin 510 269 14 13.3 228 45.9 137 27.6 91 18.3 13
Fulton 526 323 5 5.3 203 38.6 114 21.7 89 16.9 0
Genesee 569 383 16 16.2 186 32.7 103 18.1 83 14.6 0
Greene 418 277 5 7.1 141 33.7 76 18.2 65 15.6 0
Hamilton 30 16 0 0.0 14 46.7 7 23.3 7 23.3 0
Herkimer 673 425 4 3.5 244 36.5 135 20.2 109 16.3 4
Jefferson 2,206 1,682 62 19.3 508 23.2 248 11.3 260 11.9 16
Lewis 319 217 5 10.0 90 29.3 45 14.7 45 14.7 12
Livingston 524 370 14 16.7 150 28.8 80 15.4 70 13.5 4
Madison 645 427 10 9.7 207 32.6 114 18.0 93 14.7 11
Monroe 8,355 5,803 217 17.1 2,548 30.5 1,493 17.9 1,055 12.6 4
Montgomery 594 404 11 11.1 182 31.1 94 16.0 88 15.0 8
Nassau 13,821 8,518 229 8.4 5,296 38.3 2,804 20.3 2,492 18.0 7
Niagara 2,195 1,232 31 6.3 960 43.8 495 22.6 465 21.2 3
Oneida 2,642 1,677 36 7.8 958 36.4 534 20.3 424 16.1 7
Onondaga 5,233 3,554 86 10.3 1,679 32.1 933 17.8 746 14.3 0
Ontario 1,028 743 20 14.3 284 27.7 164 16.0 120 11.7 1
Orange 4,746 3,224 158 17.8 1,448 31.0 716 15.3 732 15.7 74
Orleans 414 273 8 11.0 141 34.1 76 18.4 65 15.7 0
Oswego 1,329 897 15 7.8 421 31.9 244 18.5 177 13.4 11
Otsego 534 370 4 6.3 157 29.8 98 18.6 59 11.2 7
Putnam 802 443 8 5.0 325 42.3 172 22.4 153 19.9 34
Rensselaer 1,750 1,188 41 14.4 559 32.0 315 18.0 244 14.0 3
Rockland 4,650 3,372 179 26.1 1,070 24.1 563 12.7 507 11.4 208
St Lawrence 1,227 668 8 3.4 492 42.4 267 23.0 225 19.4 67
Saratoga 2,252 1,484 47 11.7 767 34.1 412 18.3 355 15.8 1
Schenectady 1,661 1,153 31 12.4 506 30.5 286 17.2 220 13.3 2
Schoharie 251 188 5 13.9 62 24.8 31 12.4 31 12.4 1
Schuyler 157 114 2 8.0 43 27.4 20 12.7 23 14.6 0
Seneca 394 303 8 23.5 85 21.9 59 15.2 26 6.7 6
Steuben 1,083 655 8 4.6 374 36.3 208 20.2 166 16.1 54
Suffolk 15,530 8,588 166 4.8 6,938 44.7 3,620 23.3 3,318 21.4 4
Sullivan 837 559 19 14.5 274 32.9 162 19.4 112 13.4 4
Tioga 521 317 7 11.5 175 35.6 121 24.6 54 11.0 29
Tompkins 853 588 15 12.7 261 30.7 158 18.6 103 12.1 4
Ulster 1,585 1,022 37 14.0 560 35.4 332 21.0 228 14.4 3
Warren 609 391 6 6.1 218 35.8 125 20.5 93 15.3 0
Washington 612 414 5 6.7 196 32.1 126 20.7 70 11.5 2
Wayne 960 672 8 5.8 287 29.9 158 16.5 129 13.5 1
Westchester 10,557 5,804 176 9.0 4,104 41.4 2,334 23.6 1,770 17.9 649
Wyoming 387 269 8 14.3 113 29.6 65 17.0 48 12.6 5
Yates 303 259 11 39.3 44 14.5 27 8.9 17 5.6 0

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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