| Table 50: Divorces by County of Occurrence and Legal Grounds | ||||||||
| New York State 1998 | ||||||||
| Legal Grounds | ||||||||
| After | After | |||||||
| Abandon- | Imprison- | Legal | Separation | Not | ||||
| Total | Cruelty | ment | ment | Adultery | Separation | by Agreement | Stated | |
| New York State | 56,768 | 16,631 | 32,364 | 77 | 288 | 168 | 4,953 | 2,287 |
| New York City | 23,375 | 2,841 | 18,907 | 43 | 53 | 22 | 824 | 685 |
| Bronx | 1,980 | 271 | 1,560 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 55 | 83 |
| Kings | 4,938 | 492 | 3,850 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 175 | 392 |
| New York | 12,166 | 1,584 | 10,046 | 23 | 25 | 9 | 393 | 86 |
| Queens | 3,433 | 403 | 2,838 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 155 | 20 |
| Richmond | 858 | 91 | 613 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 104 |
| Rest of State | 33,393 | 13,790 | 13,457 | 34 | 235 | 146 | 4,129 | 1,602 |
| Albany | 937 | 290 | 371 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 228 | 25 |
| Allegany | 171 | 117 | 40 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Broome | 665 | 370 | 163 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 119 | 11 |
| Cattaraugus | 266 | 220 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| Cayuga | 228 | 129 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 13 |
| Chautauqua | 479 | 334 | 56 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 48 |
| Chemung | 429 | 261 | 102 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 43 | 10 |
| Chenango | 209 | 136 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 14 |
| Clinton | 298 | 174 | 66 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 45 | 7 |
| Columbia | 216 | 62 | 92 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 54 | 4 |
| Cortland | 149 | 71 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 6 |
| Delaware | 152 | 54 | 74 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
| Dutchess | 787 | 261 | 372 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 108 | 32 |
| Erie | 2,736 | 2,061 | 403 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 244 | 13 |
| Essex | 110 | 57 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 4 |
| Franklin | 177 | 97 | 36 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 31 | 1 |
| Fulton | 210 | 113 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 |
| Genesee | 226 | 180 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 3 |
| Greene | 134 | 52 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 9 |
| Hamilton | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Herkimer | 201 | 120 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 2 |
| Jefferson | 482 | 331 | 104 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 27 | 10 |
| Lewis | 57 | 36 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| Livingston | 186 | 122 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 9 |
| Madison | 229 | 153 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 1 |
| Monroe | 2,568 | 1,546 | 433 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 403 | 146 |
| Montgomery | 167 | 84 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 8 |
| Nassau | 3,820 | 308 | 3,130 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 320 | 48 |
| Niagara | 691 | 573 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 23 |
| Oneida | 822 | 549 | 148 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 86 | 32 |
| Onondaga | 1,631 | 867 | 368 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 291 | 82 |
| Ontario | 355 | 242 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 50 | 3 |
| Orange | 952 | 304 | 494 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 130 | 15 |
| Orleans | 147 | 103 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 11 |
| Oswego | 424 | 212 | 103 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 53 | 49 |
| Otsego | 183 | 79 | 55 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 8 |
| Putnam | 239 | 57 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 30 |
| Rensselaer | 545 | 174 | 229 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 121 | 12 |
| Rockland | 738 | 139 | 471 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 74 | 35 |
| St Lawrence | 363 | 222 | 73 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 29 |
| Saratoga | 675 | 277 | 186 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 156 | 31 |
| Schenectady | 466 | 203 | 147 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 90 | 18 |
| Schoharie | 111 | 45 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 2 |
| Schuyler | 82 | 54 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 3 |
| Seneca | 137 | 103 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Steuben | 308 | 209 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 18 |
| Suffolk | 3,572 | 228 | 2,725 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 283 | 312 |
| Sullivan | 236 | 69 | 85 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 48 |
| Tioga | 176 | 93 | 47 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 1 |
| Tompkins | 293 | 126 | 84 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 76 | 1 |
| Ulster | 595 | 180 | 262 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 124 | 7 |
| Warren | 286 | 165 | 70 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 8 |
| Washington | 217 | 130 | 48 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 6 |
| Wayne | 336 | 227 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 11 |
| Westchester | 2,316 | 259 | 1,503 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 167 | 366 |
| Wyoming | 109 | 87 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| Yates | 85 | 67 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
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