Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2015

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 235,964 154,463 5,279 13.2 78,992 33.8 44,363 19.0 34,629 14.8 2,509
New York City
New York City 116,040 77,893 2,662 14.7 38,139 32.9 22,648 19.5 15,491 13.4 8
Bronx 21,130 13,919 496 13.3 7,210 34.1 3,981 18.8 3,229 15.3 1
Kings 41,514 28,922 1,222 19.8 12,589 30.3 7,628 18.4 4,961 12.0 3
New York 17,775 11,910 269 12.9 5,864 33.0 4,043 22.7 1,821 10.2 1
Queens 30,335 19,768 590 11.5 10,564 34.8 6,004 19.8 4,560 15.0 3
Richmond 5,286 3,374 85 8.5 1,912 36.2 992 18.8 920 17.4 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 119,924 76,570 2,617 12.0 40,853 34.8 21,715 18.5 19,138 16.3 2,501
Albany 3,161 2,125 93 17.9 1,031 32.7 605 19.2 426 13.5 5
Allegany 496 331 4 5.6 124 27.3 56 12.3 68 14.9 41
Broome 1,972 1,287 34 8.6 681 34.6 318 16.2 363 18.4 4
Cattaraugus 880 550 9 6.5 246 30.9 116 14.6 130 16.3 84
Cayuga 716 510 13 12.9 206 28.8 118 16.5 88 12.3 0
Chautauqua 1,439 926 13 5.2 487 34.5 248 17.6 239 16.9 26
Chemung 982 685 24 15.4 297 30.2 165 16.8 132 13.4 0
Chenango 492 352 7 9.6 137 28.0 71 14.5 66 13.5 3
Clinton 768 503 22 16.3 262 34.2 149 19.5 113 14.8 3
Columbia 523 336 10 11.5 174 34.1 97 19.0 77 15.1 13
Cortland 464 304 3 3.6 149 32.9 68 15.0 81 17.9 11
Delaware 354 228 8 11.0 124 35.2 59 16.8 65 18.5 2
Dutchess 2,606 1,596 59 13.4 877 35.5 496 20.1 381 15.4 133
Erie 10,162 6,666 248 13.5 3,489 34.4 1,903 18.7 1,586 15.6 7
Essex 336 231 7 13.5 103 30.8 58 17.4 45 13.5 2
Franklin 491 279 7 7.1 207 42.6 116 23.9 91 18.7 5
Fulton 522 330 8 8.2 192 36.8 102 19.5 90 17.2 0
Genesee 565 385 13 12.0 180 31.9 85 15.0 95 16.8 0
Greene 378 263 6 9.4 115 30.4 57 15.1 58 15.3 0
Hamilton 31 18 0 0.0 13 41.9 7 22.6 6 19.4 0
Herkimer 608 389 10 8.4 214 35.5 105 17.4 109 18.1 5
Jefferson 2,088 1,571 51 18.0 501 24.2 268 12.9 233 11.2 16
Lewis 324 222 4 8.3 97 30.4 53 16.6 44 13.8 5
Livingston 515 353 7 8.1 158 30.9 79 15.5 79 15.5 4
Madison 652 451 8 8.1 192 29.9 101 15.7 91 14.2 9
Monroe 8,174 5,805 276 20.3 2,361 28.9 1,279 15.7 1,082 13.3 8
Montgomery 643 435 12 11.1 204 31.9 108 16.9 96 15.0 4
Nassau 14,272 8,800 304 10.7 5,459 38.3 2,923 20.5 2,536 17.8 13
Niagara 2,149 1,292 31 6.8 856 39.9 430 20.0 426 19.8 1
Oneida 2,514 1,613 36 7.5 891 35.6 446 17.8 445 17.8 10
Onondaga 5,259 3,594 111 12.3 1,664 31.6 870 16.5 794 15.1 1
Ontario 1,032 758 34 20.4 273 26.5 140 13.6 133 12.9 1
Orange 4,792 3,349 172 21.0 1,364 28.9 717 15.2 647 13.7 79
Orleans 451 304 7 8.6 147 32.6 73 16.2 74 16.4 0
Oswego 1,199 787 17 8.0 400 33.7 205 17.3 195 16.4 12
Otsego 530 367 10 13.3 156 29.8 91 17.4 65 12.4 7
Putnam 813 454 16 9.4 322 41.5 168 21.6 154 19.8 37
Rensselaer 1,617 1,081 43 16.8 531 32.9 318 19.7 213 13.2 5
Rockland 5,113 3,652 234 30.2 1,187 24.5 645 13.3 542 11.2 274
St Lawrence 1,181 659 18 7.7 440 40.0 224 20.4 216 19.7 82
Saratoga 2,174 1,457 43 12.3 715 32.9 408 18.8 307 14.1 2
Schenectady 1,766 1,185 48 15.9 580 32.9 327 18.5 253 14.3 1
Schoharie 234 163 6 18.8 71 30.3 45 19.2 26 11.1 0
Schuyler 180 138 7 25.0 42 23.3 21 11.7 21 11.7 0
Seneca 367 272 11 20.0 89 24.7 45 12.5 44 12.2 6
Steuben 1,069 666 9 4.6 348 34.3 161 15.9 187 18.4 55
Suffolk 15,808 8,963 224 6.4 6,830 43.2 3,568 22.6 3,262 20.7 15
Sullivan 792 496 20 13.7 296 37.4 170 21.5 126 15.9 0
Tioga 465 319 12 15.6 145 31.3 80 17.2 65 14.0 1
Tompkins 812 573 14 11.1 238 29.3 126 15.5 112 13.8 1
Ulster 1,573 985 31 10.5 584 37.2 320 20.4 264 16.8 4
Warren 540 360 6 7.1 180 33.3 102 18.9 78 14.4 0
Washington 584 387 5 5.1 194 33.4 100 17.2 94 16.2 3
Wayne 968 689 21 14.6 278 28.7 155 16.0 123 12.7 1
Westchester 10,639 5,565 155 8.3 3,582 39.2 1,863 20.4 1,719 18.8 1,492
Wyoming 368 251 7 11.1 113 31.0 57 15.7 56 15.4 4
Yates 321 260 9 25.0 57 18.0 30 9.5 27 8.5 4

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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