Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2014

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 238,000 154,943 4,979 12.6 79,394 33.9 44,964 19.2 34,430 14.7 3,663
New York City
New York City 117,099 78,419 2,596 14.6 38,339 32.8 23,112 19.8 15,227 13.0 341
Bronx 21,309 14,234 551 15.6 7,014 33.0 4,041 19.0 2,973 14.0 61
Kings 41,746 28,973 1,095 18.7 12,690 30.5 7,916 19.0 4,774 11.5 83
New York 18,356 12,237 314 13.9 6,021 33.0 4,071 22.3 1,950 10.7 98
Queens 30,362 19,617 565 11.0 10,692 35.3 6,124 20.2 4,568 15.1 53
Richmond 5,326 3,358 71 6.9 1,922 36.4 960 18.2 962 18.2 46
Rest of State
Rest of State 120,901 76,524 2,383 11.0 41,055 34.9 21,852 18.6 19,203 16.3 3,322
Albany 3,163 2,159 84 16.1 1,004 31.7 565 17.9 439 13.9 0
Allegany 517 355 7 9.9 136 27.7 72 14.7 64 13.0 26
Broome 2,111 1,369 29 7.1 738 35.0 357 16.9 381 18.1 4
Cattaraugus 933 555 9 6.5 282 33.7 153 18.3 129 15.4 96
Cayuga 777 558 8 6.8 217 28.0 107 13.8 110 14.2 2
Chautauqua 1,485 919 14 5.1 534 36.8 272 18.7 262 18.0 32
Chemung 974 683 15 10.6 290 29.8 163 16.8 127 13.1 1
Chenango 551 366 5 5.3 181 33.1 91 16.6 90 16.5 4
Clinton 754 492 13 10.2 260 34.6 145 19.3 115 15.3 2
Columbia 492 328 12 16.9 153 31.8 94 19.5 59 12.3 11
Cortland 478 319 3 3.9 147 31.5 74 15.9 73 15.7 12
Delaware 406 283 4 6.6 120 29.8 63 15.6 57 14.1 3
Dutchess 2,680 1,600 78 15.9 946 37.2 532 20.9 414 16.3 134
Erie 10,109 6,686 253 13.6 3,414 33.8 1,806 17.9 1,608 15.9 9
Essex 298 189 1 2.0 104 35.5 55 18.8 49 16.7 5
Franklin 441 257 10 11.5 175 40.5 98 22.7 77 17.8 9
Fulton 538 344 2 1.9 192 35.8 87 16.2 105 19.6 2
Genesee 621 409 12 11.7 212 34.1 121 19.5 91 14.7 0
Greene 398 269 7 11.3 129 32.4 74 18.6 55 13.8 0
Hamilton 29 16 1 50.0 13 44.8 12 41.4 1 3.4 0
Herkimer 657 415 10 8.4 237 36.3 128 19.6 109 16.7 5
Jefferson 2,081 1,550 59 19.2 513 24.9 265 12.8 248 12.0 18
Lewis 356 246 6 9.7 94 27.6 38 11.2 56 16.5 16
Livingston 526 356 12 12.6 166 31.8 83 15.9 83 15.9 4
Madison 644 428 7 7.1 201 32.0 109 17.3 92 14.6 15
Monroe 8,388 5,887 258 18.9 2,496 29.8 1,386 16.5 1,110 13.2 5
Montgomery 621 413 9 8.7 203 33.0 109 17.7 94 15.3 5
Nassau 14,339 8,797 246 8.7 5,522 38.6 2,950 20.6 2,572 18.0 20
Niagara 2,165 1,225 36 7.3 939 43.4 480 22.2 459 21.2 1
Oneida 2,495 1,617 32 7.0 867 34.9 441 17.8 426 17.1 11
Onondaga 5,291 3,642 104 11.5 1,649 31.2 851 16.1 798 15.1 0
Ontario 1,084 832 29 19.1 248 23.0 125 11.6 123 11.4 4
Orange 4,856 3,158 164 19.6 1,380 30.4 709 15.6 671 14.8 318
Orleans 420 280 8 10.7 137 32.9 70 16.8 67 16.1 3
Oswego 1,269 868 18 8.4 386 30.8 189 15.1 197 15.7 15
Otsego 540 361 4 6.1 170 32.0 108 20.3 62 11.7 9
Putnam 825 431 8 5.1 336 43.8 188 24.5 148 19.3 58
Rensselaer 1,648 1,120 39 15.4 526 32.0 311 18.9 215 13.1 2
Rockland 5,170 3,242 194 28.7 1,082 25.0 600 13.9 482 11.1 846
St Lawrence 1,137 632 12 5.5 428 40.4 222 20.9 206 19.4 77
Saratoga 2,235 1,515 51 13.6 720 32.2 397 17.8 323 14.5 0
Schenectady 1,821 1,266 36 12.2 552 30.4 294 16.2 258 14.2 3
Schoharie 260 178 6 17.6 80 31.0 52 20.2 28 10.9 2
Schuyler 168 118 4 16.0 49 29.3 28 16.8 21 12.6 1
Seneca 388 295 14 26.4 93 24.0 54 13.9 39 10.1 0
Steuben 1,074 666 14 6.8 374 36.0 183 17.6 191 18.4 34
Suffolk 15,568 8,797 174 5.2 6,754 43.4 3,561 22.9 3,193 20.5 17
Sullivan 785 511 7 5.6 265 34.1 147 18.9 118 15.2 9
Tioga 518 351 12 12.5 167 32.2 83 16.0 84 16.2 0
Tompkins 856 631 17 14.9 223 26.1 126 14.8 97 11.4 2
Ulster 1,525 985 36 12.7 534 35.2 286 18.8 248 16.3 6
Warren 567 373 6 5.9 193 34.1 97 17.1 96 17.0 1
Washington 585 408 2 2.5 174 29.9 97 16.7 77 13.2 3
Wayne 970 685 17 10.3 284 29.3 136 14.0 148 15.3 1
Westchester 10,641 5,580 147 8.0 3,605 39.2 1,923 20.9 1,682 18.3 1,456
Wyoming 390 277 6 11.1 111 28.6 63 16.2 48 12.4 2
Yates 283 232 12 30.0 50 17.7 22 7.8 28 9.9 1

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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