Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County, New York State - 2019

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 220,536 147,006 5,119 13.7 73,126 33.2 40,781 18.5 32,345 14.7 404
New York City
New York City 104,294 70,722 2,560 15.3 33,568 32.2 19,427 18.6 14,141 13.6 4
Bronx 18,963 12,286 532 15.1 6,676 35.2 3,691 19.5 2,985 15.7 1
Kings 37,031 26,421 1,140 20.4 10,610 28.7 6,153 16.6 4,457 12.0 0
New York 16,257 10,903 300 14.2 5,353 32.9 3,542 21.8 1,811 11.1 1
Queens 26,850 17,638 503 11.2 9,210 34.3 5,216 19.4 3,994 14.9 2
Richmond 5,193 3,474 85 8.7 1,719 33.1 825 15.9 894 17.2 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 116,242 76,284 2,559 12.3 39,558 34.1 21,354 18.4 18,204 15.7 400
Albany 2,979 2,015 82 15.7 964 32.4 524 17.6 440 14.8 0
Allegany 480 313 2 2.9 143 31.4 76 16.7 67 14.7 24
Broome 1,950 1,335 30 9.1 613 31.5 314 16.1 299 15.3 2
Cattaraugus 825 512 9 6.9 231 31.1 110 14.8 121 16.3 82
Cayuga 752 505 13 11.6 243 32.5 144 19.3 99 13.2 4
Chautauqua 1,342 839 20 7.9 466 35.7 234 17.9 232 17.8 37
Chemung 894 638 20 13.1 256 28.6 123 13.8 133 14.9 0
Chenango 471 333 6 8.5 128 27.8 63 13.7 65 14.1 10
Clinton 722 521 17 17.9 195 27.2 117 16.3 78 10.9 6
Columbia 479 326 10 13.2 146 30.9 80 16.9 66 14.0 7
Cortland 451 302 4 6.0 138 31.4 75 17.0 63 14.3 11
Delaware 349 241 2 4.4 108 30.9 65 18.6 43 12.3 0
Dutchess 2,699 1,743 82 16.5 954 35.4 540 20.0 414 15.4 2
Erie 9,679 6,349 261 14.3 3,327 34.4 1,765 18.2 1,562 16.1 3
Essex 314 209 8 13.6 104 33.2 53 16.9 51 16.3 1
Franklin 411 279 17 20.0 128 31.4 60 14.7 68 16.7 4
Fulton 510 353 12 12.6 157 30.8 74 14.5 83 16.3 0
Genesee 555 358 7 7.2 196 35.4 106 19.1 90 16.2 1
Greene 360 240 6 10.0 117 32.8 63 17.6 54 15.1 3
Hamilton 29 19 0 0.0 10 34.5 8 27.6 2 6.9 0
Herkimer 626 404 7 5.9 216 34.8 105 16.9 111 17.9 6
Jefferson 1,802 1,270 34 14.7 519 29.0 322 18.0 197 11.0 13
Lewis 300 211 5 10.2 86 29.0 42 14.1 44 14.8 3
Livingston 551 392 11 12.6 152 27.9 76 14.0 76 14.0 7
Madison 626 387 12 10.6 222 36.5 121 19.9 101 16.6 17
Monroe 7,913 5,429 231 18.3 2,482 31.4 1,449 18.3 1,033 13.1 2
Montgomery 585 424 11 12.1 151 26.3 71 12.3 80 13.9 10
Nassau 13,877 8,776 284 10.7 5,091 36.7 2,713 19.6 2,378 17.1 10
Niagara 2,069 1,209 39 8.6 857 41.5 441 21.3 416 20.1 3
Oneida 2,501 1,554 26 5.5 940 37.7 489 19.6 451 18.1 7
Onondaga 5,053 3,390 96 11.4 1,663 32.9 918 18.2 745 14.7 0
Ontario 970 697 17 13.3 272 28.1 161 16.6 111 11.5 1
Orange 5,192 3,658 146 17.2 1,525 29.4 823 15.9 702 13.5 9
Orleans 423 298 7 10.1 125 29.6 63 14.9 62 14.7 0
Oswego 1,234 863 20 10.2 355 29.1 178 14.6 177 14.5 16
Otsego 441 302 5 9.3 119 28.3 70 16.6 49 11.6 20
Putnam 797 462 15 9.3 335 42.0 189 23.7 146 18.3 0
Rensselaer 1,606 1,103 35 13.2 503 31.3 272 16.9 231 14.4 0
Rockland 5,721 4,535 263 32.0 1,185 20.7 627 11.0 558 9.8 1
St Lawrence 999 593 17 8.4 358 37.6 172 18.1 186 19.6 48
Saratoga 2,052 1,372 34 9.4 677 33.0 349 17.0 328 16.0 3
Schenectady 1,721 1,176 34 12.0 544 31.6 294 17.1 250 14.5 1
Schoharie 246 171 5 10.6 74 30.2 32 13.1 42 17.1 1
Schuyler 166 117 4 19.0 49 29.5 32 19.3 17 10.2 0
Seneca 363 276 12 22.6 84 23.3 43 11.9 41 11.4 3
Steuben 1,036 704 18 9.6 328 31.8 158 15.3 170 16.5 4
Suffolk 15,001 8,581 207 6.4 6,417 42.8 3,409 22.7 3,008 20.1 3
Sullivan 877 575 22 16.1 301 34.4 186 21.2 115 13.1 1
Tioga 474 313 12 15.0 159 33.7 91 19.3 68 14.4 2
Tompkins 701 533 20 21.5 168 24.0 95 13.6 73 10.4 0
Ulster 1,520 997 43 17.2 519 34.2 312 20.6 207 13.7 4
Warren 533 354 8 11.0 179 33.6 114 21.4 65 12.2 0
Washington 558 381 7 7.4 177 31.7 90 16.1 87 15.6 0
Wayne 887 631 22 17.7 256 28.9 154 17.4 102 11.5 0
Westchester 9,906 6,222 205 10.9 3,678 37.2 2,006 20.3 1,672 16.9 6
Wyoming 356 243 8 14.0 113 31.7 64 18.0 49 13.8 0
Yates 308 251 9 25.7 55 18.0 29 9.5 26 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.