Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2008

County Total Births Method of Delivery
Vaginal Delivery Cesarean Delivery 
# Vaginal # VBAC* % VBAC* #Cesarean %Cesarean* #Primary %Primary #Repeat %Repeat Not Stated
New York State
New York State 249,655 162,655 3,095 10.2 85,144 34.4 57,792 23.3 27,352 11.0 1,856
New York City
New York City 121,756 81,394 1,552 15.2 39,276 32.5 30,642 25.4 8,634 7.2 1,086
Bronx 23,011 15,535 319 15.0 7,141 31.5 5,339 23.5 1,802 7.9 335
Kings 41,623 29,072 689 22.3 12,223 29.6 9,818 23.8 2,405 5.8 328
New York 20,306 13,376 197 15.9 6,704 33.4 5,665 28.2 1,039 5.2 226
Queens 31,063 19,961 279 9.4 10,948 35.4 8,259 26.7 2,689 8.7 154
Richmond 5,753 3,450 68 8.9 2,260 39.6 1,561 27.3 699 12.2 43
Rest of State
Rest of State 127,899 81,261 1,543 7.6 45,868 36.1 27,150 21.4 18,718 14.7 770
Albany 3,140 2,053 54 11.9 1,087 34.6 689 21.9 398 12.7 0
Allegany 519 343 3 4.4 172 33.4 107 20.8 65 12.6 4
Broome 2,074 1,396 27 8.6 676 32.6 388 18.7 288 13.9 2
Cattaraugus 1,010 622 7 4.8 304 32.8 166 17.9 138 14.9 84
Cayuga 836 628 4 4.1 206 24.7 113 13.5 93 11.2 2
Chautauqua 1,395 859 4 1.7 504 37.0 278 20.4 226 16.6 32
Chemung 957 706 11 9.8 250 26.2 149 15.6 101 10.6 1
Chenango 540 389 8 11.4 150 27.8 88 16.3 62 11.5 1
Clinton 768 541 5 5.9 225 29.4 145 18.9 80 10.4 2
Columbia 614 406 10 11.2 206 33.7 127 20.8 79 12.9 2
Cortland 574 384 2 2.4 190 33.1 110 19.2 80 13.9 0
Delaware 451 312 7 9.2 138 30.7 69 15.3 69 15.3 1
Dutchess 2,925 1,837 52 10.9 1,083 37.1 660 22.6 423 14.5 5
Erie 9,680 6,359 161 10.4 3,307 34.2 1,923 19.9 1,384 14.3 14
Essex 375 255 2 5.4 120 32.0 85 22.7 35 9.3 0
Franklin 533 350 6 6.9 178 33.7 97 18.4 81 15.3 5
Fulton 632 402 8 9.3 227 36.1 149 23.7 78 12.4 3
Genesee 629 426 10 9.1 202 32.2 102 16.2 100 15.9 1
Greene 439 287 5 6.7 152 34.6 82 18.7 70 15.9 0
Hamilton 34 25 0 0.0 9 26.5 9 26.5 0 0.0 0
Herkimer 646 409 5 4.1 234 36.4 118 18.4 116 18.0 3
Jefferson 2,127 1,557 41 15.0 559 26.4 326 15.4 233 11.0 11
Lewis 335 218 8 15.1 105 32.5 60 18.6 45 13.9 12
Livingston 589 403 7 7.3 186 31.6 97 16.5 89 15.1 0
Madison 699 468 10 8.0 228 32.8 113 16.2 115 16.5 3
Monroe 8,707 6,008 188 14.3 2,698 31.0 1,570 18.0 1,128 13.0 1
Montgomery 645 375 6 5.2 237 38.7 128 20.9 109 17.8 33
Nassau 15,033 8,804 98 3.8 6,211 41.4 3,723 24.8 2,488 16.6 18
Niagara 2,263 1,363 24 6.2 900 39.8 536 23.7 364 16.1 0
Oneida 2,617 1,740 36 8.7 876 33.5 497 19.0 379 14.5 1
Onondaga 5,553 3,802 81 10.2 1,749 31.5 1,035 18.6 714 12.9 2
Ontario 1,111 788 22 14.6 321 28.9 192 17.3 129 11.6 2
Orange 5,406 3,504 87 10.7 1,817 34.1 1,090 20.5 727 13.7 85
Orleans 418 277 5 7.7 139 33.4 79 19.0 60 14.4 2
Oswego 1,377 946 19 8.8 428 31.1 231 16.8 197 14.3 3
Otsego 550 396 8 13.3 153 27.9 101 18.4 52 9.5 1
Putnam 984 589 10 6.1 395 40.1 242 24.6 153 15.5 0
Rensselaer 1,723 1,168 24 10.9 551 32.1 354 20.6 197 11.5 4
Rockland 4,956 3,305 73 14.5 1,368 29.3 937 20.1 431 9.2 283
St Lawrence 1,253 706 13 6.2 495 41.2 297 24.7 198 16.5 52
Saratoga 2,300 1,551 36 10.4 744 32.4 435 19.0 309 13.5 5
Schenectady 1,802 1,270 23 9.7 531 29.5 316 17.5 215 11.9 1
Schoharie 327 238 4 11.4 89 27.2 58 17.7 31 9.5 0
Schuyler 182 106 1 4.2 76 41.8 53 29.1 23 12.6 0
Seneca 381 275 4 9.5 104 27.4 66 17.4 38 10.0 2
Steuben 1,036 651 12 6.9 349 34.9 187 18.7 162 16.2 36
Suffolk 17,984 10,116 147 4.0 7,862 43.7 4,328 24.1 3,534 19.7 6
Sullivan 959 611 10 6.0 345 36.1 187 19.6 158 16.5 3
Tioga 508 353 10 14.5 153 30.2 94 18.6 59 11.7 2
Tompkins 886 581 15 13.2 303 34.3 204 23.1 99 11.2 2
Ulster 1,800 1,107 18 6.1 691 38.4 415 23.1 276 15.4 2
Warren 658 431 1 1.1 227 34.5 136 20.7 91 13.8 0
Washington 662 431 4 4.0 230 34.8 134 20.3 96 14.5 1
Wayne 1,095 730 8 4.5 364 33.3 193 17.6 171 15.6 1
Westchester 11,517 6,896 85 5.0 4,589 40.0 2,985 26.0 1,604 14.0 32
Wyoming 395 283 8 13.3 110 28.0 58 14.8 52 13.2 2
Yates 290 225 6 18.8 65 22.4 39 13.4 26 9.0 0

* VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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