Table 50: Divorces by County of Occurrence and Legal Grounds
New York State 1997

Legal Grounds
After After
Abandon- Imprison- Legal Separation Not
Total Cruelty ment ment Adultery Separation by Agreement Stated

New York State 62,010 17,545 37,141 72 258 157 4,963 1,874
New York City 28,728 3,259 23,948 28 51 22 876 544
Bronx 2,355 331 1,872 5 3 1 59 84
Kings 5,539 566 4,525 7 9 8 182 242
New York 15,911 1,808 13,533 9 29 8 412 112
Queens 4,043 446 3,396 7 9 4 158 23
Richmond 880 108 622 0 1 1 65 83
Rest of State 33,282 14,286 13,193 44 207 135 4,087 1,330
Albany 859 304 339 2 5 13 189 7
Allegany 173 129 29 0 0 0 15 0
Broome 667 389 153 2 1 5 110 7
Cattaraugus 257 209 34 0 0 0 12 2
Cayuga 239 140 58 0 0 0 32 9
Chautauqua 527 408 45 0 1 1 30 42
Chemung 401 258 85 1 5 0 39 13
Chenango 209 141 34 0 5 0 21 8
Clinton 227 141 36 1 3 4 37 5
Columbia 192 59 86 0 2 3 40 2
Cortland 197 95 47 0 3 4 46 2
Delaware 157 75 47 0 0 0 28 7
Dutchess 868 300 369 3 9 5 161 21
Erie 2,694 2,075 353 3 2 8 235 18
Essex 107 74 8 0 7 1 17 0
Franklin 134 85 17 0 11 0 17 4
Fulton 238 160 47 0 2 0 26 3
Genesee 209 172 15 0 2 2 14 4
Greene 124 32 41 1 1 2 37 10
Hamilton 15 6 6 0 0 0 2 1
Herkimer 223 150 38 0 0 0 32 3
Jefferson 384 266 79 0 5 0 32 2
Lewis 75 47 13 0 2 0 12 1
Livingston 233 159 33 2 5 1 22 11
Madison 193 125 35 0 1 0 31 1
Monroe 2,494 1,539 421 3 11 9 387 124
Montgomery 139 79 38 0 2 0 15 5
Nassau 4,394 409 3,630 2 8 4 305 36
Niagara 730 585 60 0 1 2 52 30
Oneida 782 578 91 1 0 3 81 28
Onondaga 1,582 792 400 3 11 8 294 74
Ontario 372 252 56 1 1 4 52 6
Orange 980 377 436 2 5 5 145 10
Orleans 131 93 19 0 1 1 16 1
Oswego 416 187 114 0 4 6 73 32
Otsego 212 107 44 0 2 3 45 11
Putnam 186 30 111 0 5 0 20 20
Rensselaer 510 182 207 1 1 4 107 8
Rockland 729 166 447 1 10 1 77 27
St Lawrence 355 230 64 1 5 0 37 18
Saratoga 646 302 158 1 9 4 146 26
Schenectady 432 199 134 2 3 2 87 5
Schoharie 105 34 27 0 2 0 40 2
Schuyler 74 50 11 0 2 0 7 4
Seneca 134 98 22 0 1 1 8 4
Steuben 342 248 45 0 5 1 27 16
Suffolk 3,077 243 2,297 2 7 9 267 252
Sullivan 217 73 93 0 3 2 33 13
Tioga 178 111 46 0 1 4 16 0
Tompkins 347 167 80 1 5 2 89 3
Ulster 591 197 250 0 12 1 117 14
Warren 303 183 71 2 1 0 40 6
Washington 204 137 34 1 1 0 27 4
Wayne 343 249 50 0 2 1 34 7
Westchester 2,481 248 1,661 5 14 9 186 358
Wyoming 121 85 20 0 0 0 14 2
Yates 73 57 9 0 0 0 6 1


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