Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2009

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 246,592 159,917 3,153 8.8 85,559 34.9 52,910 21.6 32,649 13.3 1,116
New York City
New York City 121,745 81,168 1,678 10.7 40,208 33.1 26,175 21.6 14,033 11.6 369
Bronx 23,000 15,338 346 11.4 7,537 32.9 4,845 21.2 2,692 11.8 125
Kings 42,101 29,424 640 12.6 12,560 29.9 8,134 19.4 4,426 10.5 117
New York 20,167 13,280 210 10.3 6,811 33.9 4,978 24.8 1,833 9.1 76
Queens 30,748 19,631 398 8.9 11,071 36.1 7,005 22.8 4,066 13.2 46
Richmond 5,729 3,495 84 7.6 2,229 38.9 1,213 21.2 1,016 17.7 5
Rest of State
Rest of State 124,847 78,749 1,475 7.3 45,351 36.5 26,735 21.5 18,616 15.0 747
Albany 3,176 2,086 61 12.9 1,090 34.3 678 21.3 412 13.0 0
Allegany 521 351 2 2.4 164 31.8 84 16.3 80 15.5 6
Broome 2,061 1,322 13 3.9 738 35.8 417 20.2 321 15.6 1
Cattaraugus 978 585 5 3.1 293 33.4 139 15.8 154 17.5 100
Cayuga 812 600 3 3.0 211 26.0 113 13.9 98 12.1 1
Chautauqua 1,442 901 6 2.7 513 36.3 298 21.1 215 15.2 28
Chemung 978 676 20 13.0 302 30.9 168 17.2 134 13.7 0
Chenango 524 364 2 2.5 159 30.4 81 15.5 78 14.9 1
Clinton 787 522 7 8.0 264 33.6 184 23.4 80 10.2 1
Columbia 565 394 9 13.2 168 29.9 109 19.4 59 10.5 3
Cortland 556 370 4 4.5 186 33.5 101 18.2 85 15.3 0
Delaware 458 318 3 5.8 140 30.6 91 19.9 49 10.7 0
Dutchess 2,917 1,820 57 10.8 1,092 37.5 619 21.3 473 16.2 5
Erie 9,797 6,307 122 7.8 3,483 35.6 2,049 20.9 1,434 14.6 7
Essex 351 231 4 8.5 120 34.2 77 21.9 43 12.3 0
Franklin 514 314 3 4.0 197 38.6 125 24.5 72 14.1 3
Fulton 556 319 3 2.8 234 42.3 129 23.3 105 19.0 3
Genesee 657 447 10 9.7 210 32.0 117 17.8 93 14.2 0
Greene 442 278 8 11.9 163 37.0 104 23.6 59 13.4 1
Hamilton 40 28 0 0.0 12 30.0 10 25.0 2 5.0 0
Herkimer 671 424 6 4.7 240 36.1 119 17.9 121 18.2 7
Jefferson 1,995 1,477 33 14.3 510 25.7 313 15.8 197 9.9 8
Lewis 351 226 5 9.3 112 33.1 63 18.6 49 14.5 13
Livingston 574 387 5 7.4 186 32.5 123 21.5 63 11.0 1
Madison 680 463 8 7.7 213 31.5 117 17.3 96 14.2 4
Monroe 8,580 5,867 152 12.5 2,710 31.6 1,643 19.2 1,067 12.4 3
Montgomery 611 365 3 3.7 200 35.4 121 21.4 79 14.0 46
Nassau 14,683 8,636 94 3.7 6,040 41.2 3,600 24.5 2,440 16.6 7
Niagara 2,305 1,291 27 6.2 1,012 43.9 600 26.1 412 17.9 2
Oneida 2,633 1,707 21 4.9 925 35.1 516 19.6 409 15.5 1
Onondaga 5,479 3,727 92 11.3 1,750 32.0 1,025 18.7 725 13.2 2
Ontario 1,051 772 28 20.3 279 26.5 169 16.1 110 10.5 0
Orange 5,062 3,353 91 12.0 1,629 32.7 959 19.2 670 13.4 80
Orleans 441 292 4 5.7 143 32.9 77 17.7 66 15.2 6
Oswego 1,409 958 15 6.6 445 31.7 233 16.6 212 15.1 6
Otsego 484 334 9 12.5 150 31.0 87 18.0 63 13.0 0
Putnam 894 555 14 9.1 339 37.9 199 22.3 140 15.7 0
Rensselaer 1,772 1,170 30 11.4 598 33.8 364 20.6 234 13.2 4
Rockland 4,560 3,170 116 20.8 1,130 26.3 687 16.0 443 10.3 260
St Lawrence 1,191 653 9 4.0 494 43.1 280 24.4 214 18.7 44
Saratoga 2,222 1,426 24 6.9 796 35.8 473 21.3 323 14.5 0
Schenectady 1,799 1,248 24 9.3 550 30.6 317 17.6 233 13.0 1
Schoharie 279 197 6 17.1 82 29.4 53 19.0 29 10.4 0
Schuyler 158 92 4 12.5 66 41.8 38 24.1 28 17.7 0
Seneca 370 268 4 8.2 101 27.4 56 15.2 45 12.2 1
Steuben 1,118 692 12 7.5 367 34.7 220 20.8 147 13.9 59
Suffolk 17,183 9,491 108 3.1 7,690 44.8 4,368 25.4 3,322 19.3 2
Sullivan 861 579 9 6.6 281 32.7 154 17.9 127 14.8 1
Tioga 429 293 9 14.5 135 31.5 82 19.2 53 12.4 1
Tompkins 918 619 15 10.4 296 32.3 167 18.3 129 14.1 3
Ulster 1,706 1,106 28 10.4 597 35.1 356 20.9 241 14.2 3
Warren 640 392 1 1.1 246 38.6 155 24.3 91 14.3 2
Washington 625 423 4 6.1 199 32.0 137 22.0 62 10.0 3
Wayne 1,065 703 8 5.4 361 33.9 221 20.8 140 13.2 1
Westchester 11,143 6,579 104 5.7 4,551 40.9 2,842 25.5 1,709 15.4 13
Wyoming 418 300 4 7.5 115 27.7 66 15.9 49 11.8 3
Yates 355 281 7 17.9 74 20.8 42 11.8 32 9.0 0

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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