Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2018

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 225,162 148,636 5,062 13.1 76,057 33.8 42,491 18.9 33,566 14.9 469
New York City
New York City 107,821 72,171 2,586 14.8 35,644 33.1 20,789 19.3 14,855 13.8 6
Bronx 19,778 12,710 556 14.8 7,065 35.7 3,853 19.5 3,212 16.2 3
Kings 38,435 27,144 1,200 20.8 11,288 29.4 6,719 17.5 4,569 11.9 3
New York 16,654 11,017 299 13.5 5,637 33.8 3,729 22.4 1,908 11.5 0
Queens 27,865 17,880 448 9.4 9,985 35.8 5,686 20.4 4,299 15.4 0
Richmond 5,089 3,420 83 8.7 1,669 32.8 802 15.8 867 17.0 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 117,341 76,465 2,476 11.7 40,413 34.6 21,702 18.6 18,711 16.0 463
Albany 2,957 1,996 76 15.4 961 32.5 543 18.4 418 14.1 0
Allegany 469 315 7 10.6 123 28.1 64 14.6 59 13.5 31
Broome 1,875 1,240 14 4.3 635 33.9 323 17.2 312 16.6 0
Cattaraugus 867 520 10 7.5 256 33.0 133 17.1 123 15.9 91
Cayuga 724 496 9 8.5 228 31.5 131 18.1 97 13.4 0
Chautauqua 1,304 811 21 8.4 465 36.4 235 18.4 230 18.0 28
Chemung 872 614 23 16.0 257 29.5 136 15.6 121 13.9 1
Chenango 463 328 5 7.9 133 28.9 75 16.3 58 12.6 2
Clinton 719 456 28 20.6 257 36.0 149 20.9 108 15.1 6
Columbia 471 317 13 18.6 144 31.2 87 18.9 57 12.4 10
Cortland 457 313 5 8.5 135 30.1 81 18.1 54 12.1 9
Delaware 396 298 3 5.3 98 24.7 44 11.1 54 13.6 0
Dutchess 2,542 1,585 64 12.8 957 37.6 520 20.5 437 17.2 0
Erie 9,794 6,446 240 13.8 3,322 34.0 1,824 18.7 1,498 15.3 26
Essex 308 211 5 9.8 97 31.5 51 16.6 46 14.9 0
Franklin 467 321 13 14.4 141 30.5 64 13.9 77 16.7 5
Fulton 519 342 5 5.2 175 33.8 83 16.1 92 17.8 2
Genesee 577 358 7 6.0 219 38.0 110 19.1 109 18.9 0
Greene 436 290 10 13.5 145 33.3 81 18.6 64 14.7 1
Hamilton 18 14 0 0.0 4 22.2 3 16.7 1 5.6 0
Herkimer 588 383 14 11.9 204 34.8 100 17.0 104 17.7 1
Jefferson 1,860 1,365 61 23.2 483 26.1 281 15.2 202 10.9 12
Lewis 328 223 7 11.9 102 31.4 50 15.4 52 16.0 3
Livingston 494 335 14 15.6 153 31.4 77 15.8 76 15.6 6
Madison 655 461 11 10.7 176 27.6 84 13.2 92 14.4 18
Monroe 7,770 5,453 250 20.4 2,314 29.8 1,341 17.3 973 12.5 3
Montgomery 609 419 8 7.3 183 30.4 82 13.6 101 16.8 7
Nassau 14,173 8,694 215 8.0 5,476 38.6 2,993 21.1 2,483 17.5 3
Niagara 2,105 1,203 35 7.0 898 42.7 436 20.8 462 22.0 4
Oneida 2,512 1,555 26 5.5 948 37.9 502 20.1 446 17.8 9
Onondaga 5,236 3,573 106 12.5 1,661 31.7 919 17.6 742 14.2 2
Ontario 977 702 22 16.1 275 28.1 160 16.4 115 11.8 0
Orange 5,072 3,631 175 20.9 1,435 28.3 773 15.3 662 13.1 6
Orleans 348 221 4 6.5 127 36.5 69 19.8 58 16.7 0
Oswego 1,210 804 14 6.7 395 32.9 200 16.7 195 16.3 11
Otsego 501 341 7 8.1 146 30.0 67 13.8 79 16.2 14
Putnam 844 504 14 7.9 340 40.3 177 21.0 163 19.3 0
Rensselaer 1,587 1,078 43 14.4 508 32.0 252 15.9 256 16.1 1
Rockland 5,725 4,537 247 31.0 1,185 20.7 634 11.1 551 9.6 3
St Lawrence 1,096 658 30 13.5 362 35.5 170 16.7 192 18.8 76
Saratoga 2,025 1,367 38 11.3 655 32.4 358 17.7 297 14.7 3
Schenectady 1,768 1,178 46 15.4 589 33.3 336 19.0 253 14.3 1
Schoharie 285 203 4 10.0 81 28.5 45 15.8 36 12.7 1
Schuyler 176 118 1 3.8 58 33.0 33 18.8 25 14.2 0
Seneca 402 309 8 16.3 92 22.9 51 12.7 41 10.2 1
Steuben 1,038 674 11 6.1 326 32.6 156 15.6 170 17.0 38
Suffolk 15,241 8,599 186 5.6 6,640 43.6 3,492 22.9 3,148 20.7 2
Sullivan 853 571 27 15.7 279 32.8 134 15.8 145 17.1 3
Tioga 435 296 6 8.8 137 31.6 75 17.3 62 14.3 2
Tompkins 728 517 18 17.0 209 28.8 121 16.7 88 12.1 2
Ulster 1,546 990 35 12.7 556 36.0 316 20.4 240 15.5 0
Warren 544 348 4 4.3 196 36.0 108 19.9 88 16.2 0
Washington 551 368 9 12.3 180 32.8 116 21.2 64 11.7 3
Wayne 990 687 15 9.5 303 30.6 160 16.2 143 14.4 0
Westchester 10,112 6,296 190 9.5 3,805 37.7 2,004 19.8 1,801 17.8 11
Wyoming 380 248 4 5.9 129 34.2 65 17.2 64 17.0 3
Yates 342 285 13 32.5 55 16.2 28 8.2 27 7.9 2

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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