Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County, New York State 2017

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 228,501 150,325 5,245 13.2 77,614 34.1 43,226 19.0 34,388 15.1 562
New York City
New York City 110,682 73,383 2,727 15.0 37,291 33.7 21,823 19.7 15,468 14.0 8
Bronx 20,246 12,886 501 13.3 7,360 36.4 4,092 20.2 3,268 16.1 0
Kings 39,068 27,270 1,328 21.2 11,793 30.2 6,869 17.6 4,924 12.6 5
New York 17,142 11,320 292 13.0 5,820 34.0 3,867 22.6 1,953 11.4 2
Queens 28,872 18,602 523 10.7 10,269 35.6 5,901 20.4 4,368 15.1 1
Richmond 5,354 3,305 83 8.0 2,049 38.3 1,094 20.4 955 17.8 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 117,819 76,942 2,518 11.7 40,323 34.4 21,403 18.3 18,920 16.1 554
Albany 3,177 2,143 77 14.1 1,034 32.5 566 17.8 468 14.7 0
Allegany 486 308 8 10.3 143 31.7 73 16.2 70 15.5 35
Broome 1,976 1,364 24 6.8 607 30.8 276 14.0 331 16.8 5
Cattaraugus 817 510 9 7.0 230 31.1 111 15.0 119 16.1 77
Cayuga 781 546 6 5.9 233 29.9 138 17.7 95 12.2 2
Chautauqua 1,349 814 20 7.5 501 38.1 254 19.3 247 18.8 34
Chemung 898 663 13 9.8 235 26.2 115 12.8 120 13.4 0
Chenango 489 325 6 7.0 157 32.6 77 16.0 80 16.6 7
Clinton 711 494 14 12.5 213 30.1 115 16.3 98 13.9 4
Columbia 507 341 10 13.0 157 31.5 90 18.1 67 13.5 9
Cortland 480 338 5 7.1 132 28.1 67 14.3 65 13.8 10
Delaware 359 253 8 14.3 106 29.5 58 16.2 48 13.4 0
Dutchess 2,596 1,642 51 10.8 953 36.7 530 20.4 423 16.3 1
Erie 9,849 6,487 263 14.5 3,318 33.8 1,761 18.0 1,557 15.9 44
Essex 283 200 4 10.0 83 29.3 47 16.6 36 12.7 0
Franklin 440 287 14 13.6 143 33.3 54 12.6 89 20.7 10
Fulton 538 363 7 6.6 175 32.5 76 14.1 99 18.4 0
Genesee 551 370 12 13.0 180 32.7 100 18.2 80 14.5 1
Greene 386 260 5 7.8 126 32.6 67 17.4 59 15.3 0
Hamilton 27 16 1 14.3 11 40.7 5 18.5 6 22.2 0
Herkimer 588 369 5 4.4 214 36.7 106 18.2 108 18.5 5
Jefferson 2,005 1,472 42 15.4 523 26.2 292 14.6 231 11.6 10
Lewis 335 216 5 8.6 116 34.9 63 19.0 53 16.0 3
Livingston 502 350 14 16.5 143 29.0 72 14.6 71 14.4 9
Madison 672 440 6 5.4 213 32.6 107 16.4 106 16.2 19
Monroe 7,884 5,539 264 20.4 2,343 29.7 1,312 16.6 1,031 13.1 2
Montgomery 615 428 7 6.4 181 29.7 79 13.0 102 16.7 6
Nassau 14,184 8,777 236 8.6 5,402 38.1 2,887 20.4 2,515 17.7 5
Niagara 2,116 1,226 42 8.5 885 41.9 432 20.5 453 21.5 5
Oneida 2,566 1,631 26 5.4 928 36.3 476 18.6 452 17.7 7
Onondaga 5,061 3,410 98 11.0 1,651 32.6 861 17.0 790 15.6 0
Ontario 976 709 39 24.2 266 27.3 144 14.8 122 12.5 1
Orange 5,085 3,671 191 22.8 1,397 27.6 750 14.8 647 12.8 17
Orleans 411 270 8 10.0 141 34.3 69 16.8 72 17.5 0
Oswego 1,247 845 20 10.8 387 31.4 221 17.9 166 13.5 15
Otsego 487 347 12 16.4 126 26.6 65 13.7 61 12.9 14
Putnam 798 478 16 10.7 320 40.1 186 23.3 134 16.8 0
Rensselaer 1,562 1,102 45 19.8 458 29.4 276 17.7 182 11.7 2
Rockland 5,474 4,206 251 30.7 1,228 22.6 661 12.2 567 10.4 40
St Lawrence 1,027 560 22 9.3 403 41.8 188 19.5 215 22.3 64
Saratoga 2,145 1,437 39 10.1 707 33.0 361 16.8 346 16.1 1
Schenectady 1,725 1,149 33 11.6 576 33.4 324 18.8 252 14.6 0
Schoharie 245 188 7 22.6 57 23.3 33 13.5 24 9.8 0
Schuyler 162 111 4 16.7 49 30.6 29 18.1 20 12.5 2
Seneca 340 276 10 24.4 63 18.6 32 9.4 31 9.1 1
Steuben 997 626 15 8.8 309 33.0 154 16.5 155 16.6 62
Suffolk 15,334 8,719 201 6.1 6,610 43.1 3,497 22.8 3,113 20.3 5
Sullivan 797 521 20 13.0 274 34.5 140 17.6 134 16.9 2
Tioga 431 304 8 12.7 127 29.5 72 16.7 55 12.8 0
Tompkins 767 537 16 15.1 227 29.7 137 17.9 90 11.8 3
Ulster 1,468 931 24 9.2 535 36.5 298 20.3 237 16.2 2
Warren 542 364 7 8.1 178 32.8 99 18.3 79 14.6 0
Washington 526 346 7 6.9 179 34.1 85 16.2 94 17.9 1
Wayne 949 663 24 14.5 286 30.1 144 15.2 142 15.0 0
Westchester 10,429 6,483 179 8.9 3,940 37.8 2,102 20.2 1,838 17.6 6
Wyoming 347 247 10 17.2 96 28.0 48 14.0 48 14.0 4
Yates 320 270 8 22.9 48 15.1 21 6.6 27 8.5 2

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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