Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County New York State - 2016

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 232,663 153,734 5,256 13.1 78,445 33.8 43,689 18.8 34,756 15.0 484
New York City
New York City 114,400 76,671 2,667 14.6 37,724 33.0 22,097 19.3 15,627 13.7 5
Bronx 20,831 13,492 514 13.7 7,339 35.2 4,109 19.7 3,230 15.5 0
Kings 40,802 28,667 1,248 20.2 12,133 29.7 7,206 17.7 4,927 12.1 2
New York 17,052 11,396 230 11.0 5,656 33.2 3,803 22.3 1,853 10.9 0
Queens 30,292 19,829 597 11.4 10,461 34.5 5,827 19.2 4,634 15.3 2
Richmond 5,423 3,287 78 7.4 2,135 39.4 1,152 21.2 983 18.1 1
Rest of State
Rest of State 118,263 77,063 2,589 11.9 40,721 34.6 21,592 18.3 19,129 16.2 479
Albany 3,132 2,101 89 16.5 1,030 32.9 581 18.6 449 14.3 1
Allegany 500 334 8 9.9 143 30.0 70 14.7 73 15.3 23
Broome 1,983 1,306 28 7.7 675 34.1 337 17.0 338 17.1 2
Cattaraugus 851 524 9 7.2 240 31.4 124 16.2 116 15.2 87
Cayuga 779 536 8 6.5 243 31.2 128 16.4 115 14.8 0
Chautauqua 1,325 833 13 5.8 450 35.1 237 18.5 213 16.6 42
Chemung 934 667 22 15.8 266 28.5 149 16.0 117 12.5 1
Chenango 523 323 7 6.4 196 37.8 93 17.9 103 19.8 4
Clinton 743 550 16 16.2 190 25.7 107 14.5 83 11.2 3
Columbia 510 360 12 13.3 148 29.1 70 13.8 78 15.4 2
Cortland 507 347 4 5.9 147 29.8 83 16.8 64 13.0 13
Delaware 342 233 8 12.1 108 31.7 50 14.7 58 17.0 1
Dutchess 2,502 1,579 80 16.2 922 36.9 508 20.3 414 16.6 1
Erie 9,885 6,512 291 15.7 3,334 33.9 1,768 18.0 1,566 15.9 39
Essex 265 173 4 8.3 92 34.7 48 18.1 44 16.6 0
Franklin 475 314 13 15.7 148 32.0 78 16.9 70 15.2 13
Fulton 507 321 4 4.3 186 36.7 96 18.9 90 17.8 0
Genesee 577 397 11 11.0 179 31.1 90 15.6 89 15.5 1
Greene 369 234 12 17.4 134 36.4 77 20.9 57 15.5 1
Hamilton 21 16 0 0.0 5 23.8 3 14.3 2 9.5 0
Herkimer 634 419 13 9.8 213 33.7 94 14.9 119 18.8 2
Jefferson 1,887 1,437 36 14.6 440 23.4 230 12.3 210 11.2 10
Lewis 323 219 4 8.2 100 31.3 55 17.2 45 14.1 4
Livingston 527 348 12 12.1 173 33.2 86 16.5 87 16.7 6
Madison 630 416 4 3.8 204 32.9 104 16.8 100 16.1 10
Monroe 7,996 5,619 245 18.7 2,373 29.7 1,310 16.4 1,063 13.3 4
Montgomery 573 398 7 6.9 172 30.2 78 13.7 94 16.5 3
Nassau 14,277 8,727 270 9.4 5,542 38.8 2,941 20.6 2,601 18.2 8
Niagara 2,144 1,218 36 6.7 925 43.2 426 19.9 499 23.3 1
Oneida 2,503 1,566 34 6.9 931 37.3 471 18.9 460 18.4 6
Onondaga 5,239 3,576 102 12.3 1,663 31.7 937 17.9 726 13.9 0
Ontario 988 732 20 15.4 254 25.8 144 14.6 110 11.2 2
Orange 4,916 3,550 179 22.3 1,358 27.7 734 15.0 624 12.7 8
Orleans 405 278 7 9.3 127 31.4 59 14.6 68 16.8 0
Oswego 1,329 890 24 10.9 425 32.3 228 17.3 197 15.0 14
Otsego 493 332 6 7.6 159 32.4 86 17.5 73 14.9 2
Putnam 817 481 7 4.6 335 41.1 191 23.4 144 17.6 1
Rensselaer 1,695 1,134 27 9.7 561 33.1 311 18.3 250 14.7 0
Rockland 5,205 4,047 273 34.6 1,135 21.9 618 11.9 517 10.0 23
St Lawrence 1,092 561 20 8.1 468 45.5 240 23.3 228 22.2 63
Saratoga 2,211 1,450 43 11.0 760 34.4 412 18.6 348 15.7 1
Schenectady 1,697 1,114 41 14.1 582 34.3 333 19.6 249 14.7 1
Schoharie 240 161 3 7.3 79 32.9 41 17.1 38 15.8 0
Schuyler 167 126 1 4.3 41 24.6 19 11.4 22 13.2 0
Seneca 352 275 7 17.9 76 21.7 44 12.5 32 9.1 1
Steuben 1,020 648 24 13.2 325 33.4 167 17.2 158 16.2 47
Suffolk 15,539 8,911 175 5.1 6,621 42.6 3,397 21.9 3,224 20.8 7
Sullivan 859 569 25 15.9 288 33.6 156 18.2 132 15.4 2
Tioga 473 333 9 11.7 139 29.4 71 15.0 68 14.4 1
Tompkins 793 546 9 8.2 243 30.8 142 18.0 101 12.8 4
Ulster 1,499 982 43 15.8 514 34.4 284 19.0 230 15.4 3
Warren 572 367 7 7.2 205 35.8 115 20.1 90 15.7 0
Washington 542 347 6 6.7 193 35.7 109 20.2 84 15.6 2
Wayne 917 665 20 13.6 251 27.4 124 13.5 127 13.9 1
Westchester 10,273 6,430 192 9.7 3,842 37.4 2,051 20.0 1,791 17.4 1
Wyoming 398 278 6 8.8 118 29.8 56 14.1 62 15.7 2
Yates 308 253 13 40.6 50 16.5 31 10.2 19 6.3 5

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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