Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2007

Method of Delivery 
 Vaginal Delivery Cesarean Delivery
County Total Births # Vaginal # VBAC* % VBAC* #Cesarean %Cesarean #Primary* %Primary* #Repeat* %Repeat* Not Stated
New York State
New York State 252,662 167,600 3,713 10.2 85,016 33.7 52,301 20.7 32,715 13.0 46
New York City
New York City 122,932 83,855 1,809 11.7 39,033 31.8 25,401 20.7 13,632 11.1 44
Bronx 22,865 15,987 375 12.6 6,861 30.0 4,261 18.6 2,600 11.4 17
Kings 41,911 29,424 789 15.4 12,483 29.8 8,164 19.5 4,319 10.3 4
New York 20,690 14,015 262 12.0 6,657 32.2 4,731 22.9 1,926 9.3 18
Queens 31,594 20,775 320 7.7 10,815 34.2 6,965 22.0 3,850 12.2 4
Richmond 5,872 3,654 63 6.3 2,217 37.8 1,280 21.8 937 16.0 1
Rest of State
Rest of State 129,730 83,745 1,904 9.1 45,983 35.4 26,900 20.7 19,083 14.7 2
Albany 3,218 2,158 67 15.0 1,060 32.9 680 21.1 380 11.8 0
Allegany 525 349 4 4.8 176 33.5 96 18.3 80 15.2 0
Broome 2,122 1,440 38 11.1 682 32.1 377 17.8 305 14.4 0
Cattaraugus 996 681 13 8.2 315 31.6 170 17.1 145 14.6 0
Cayuga 798 572 6 5.8 226 28.3 128 16.0 98 12.3 0
Chautauqua 1,504 967 4 1.7 537 35.7 303 20.1 234 15.6 0
Chemung 1,100 769 18 12.2 331 30.1 201 18.3 130 11.8 0
Chenango 549 397 5 7.1 152 27.7 87 15.8 65 11.8 0
Clinton 838 550 5 5.4 288 34.4 201 24.0 87 10.4 0
Columbia 587 396 10 11.1 191 32.5 111 18.9 80 13.6 0
Cortland 528 352 2 2.8 176 33.3 107 20.3 69 13.1 0
Delaware 463 331 7 10.1 132 28.5 70 15.1 62 13.4 0
Dutchess 3,078 1,946 49 10.0 1,132 36.8 692 22.5 440 14.3 0
Erie 10,020 6,703 163 10.0 3,317 33.1 1,856 18.5 1,461 14.6 0
Essex 357 234 3 7.9 123 34.5 88 24.6 35 9.8 0
Franklin 555 358 7 7.3 197 35.5 108 19.5 89 16.0 0
Fulton 605 403 4 4.8 202 33.4 123 20.3 79 13.1 0
Genesee 712 477 9 7.6 235 33.0 125 17.6 110 15.4 0
Greene 458 283 6 8.3 175 38.2 109 23.8 66 14.4 0
Hamilton 33 22 0 0.0 11 33.3 9 27.3 2 6.1 0
Herkimer 711 485 13 10.9 226 31.8 120 16.9 106 14.9 0
Jefferson 1,784 1,379 48 20.7 405 22.7 221 12.4 184 10.3 0
Lewis 294 201 8 15.1 93 31.6 48 16.3 45 15.3 0
Livingston 602 436 7 7.4 166 27.6 78 13.0 88 14.6 0
Madison 780 533 6 5.5 247 31.7 144 18.5 103 13.2 0
Monroe 8,678 6,041 182 14.6 2,637 30.4 1,574 18.1 1,063 12.2 0
Montgomery 600 376 6 6.9 224 37.3 143 23.8 81 13.5 0
Nassau 15,180 8,958 188 6.7 6,222 41.0 3,600 23.7 2,622 17.3 0
Niagara 2,250 1,371 28 7.1 879 39.1 514 22.8 365 16.2 0
Oneida 2,606 1,721 32 7.4 885 34.0 484 18.6 401 15.4 0
Onondaga 5,526 3,779 78 9.5 1,747 31.6 1,004 18.2 743 13.4 0
Ontario 1,119 807 18 11.2 312 27.9 169 15.1 143 12.8 0
Orange 5,333 3,596 129 14.6 1,737 32.6 985 18.5 752 14.1 0
Orleans 449 309 6 8.3 140 31.2 74 16.5 66 14.7 0
Oswego 1,376 925 13 6.8 451 32.8 273 19.8 178 12.9 0
Otsego 552 404 5 6.7 148 26.8 78 14.1 70 12.7 0
Putnam 1,036 645 14 8.4 391 37.7 239 23.1 152 14.7 0
Rensselaer 1,851 1,292 37 15.2 559 30.2 353 19.1 206 11.1 0
Rockland 4,793 3,543 165 25.6 1,250 26.1 771 16.1 479 10.0 0
St Lawrence 1,240 782 18 8.8 458 36.9 272 21.9 186 15.0 0
Saratoga 2,343 1,543 25 7.6 800 34.1 497 21.2 303 12.9 0
Schenectady 1,794 1,262 32 12.6 532 29.7 311 17.3 221 12.3 0
Schoharie 292 193 2 5.6 99 33.9 65 22.3 34 11.6 0
Schuyler 179 119 1 3.2 60 33.5 30 16.8 30 16.8 0
Seneca 386 291 3 8.6 95 24.6 63 16.3 32 8.3 0
Steuben 1,171 785 17 9.7 386 33.0 228 19.5 158 13.5 0
Suffolk 18,510 10,630 176 4.9 7,880 42.6 4,474 24.2 3,406 18.4 0
Sullivan 948 622 14 8.7 326 34.4 179 18.9 147 15.5 0
Tioga 564 411 6 10.3 153 27.1 101 17.9 52 9.2 0
Tompkins 944 627 15 11.3 317 33.6 199 21.1 118 12.5 0
Ulster 1,860 1,169 32 9.8 691 37.2 397 21.3 294 15.8 0
Warren 628 423 1 1.0 205 32.6 109 17.4 96 15.3 0
Washington 639 442 0 0.0 197 30.8 121 18.9 76 11.9 0
Wayne 1,067 732 19 10.9 335 31.4 179 16.8 156 14.6 0
Westchester 11,857 6,965 129 6.6 4,890 41.2 3,059 25.8 1,831 15.4 2
Wyoming 430 311 3 5.6 119 27.7 68 15.8 51 11.9 0
Yates 312 249 8 22.2 63 20.2 35 11.2 28 9.0 0

* Data on previous c-section deliveries is supplemented with information from the mother"s hospital record when available. See Technical Notes for Details.

VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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