Table 14: Live Births by Method of Delivery and Resident County, New York State - 2022

County Total Births Method of Delivery
Vaginal Delivery Cesarean Delivery 
# Vaginal # VBAC1 % VBAC2 #Cesarean %Cesarean3 #Primary %Primary4 #Repeat %Repeat5 Not Stated
New York State
New York State 206,812 136,255 5,198 14.7 70,020 33.9 39,772 23.3 30,248 85.3 537
New York City
New York City 92,094 62,204 2,575 17.3 29,876 32.4 17,603 22.8 12,273 82.7 14
Bronx 16,728 10,624 566 16.9 6,102 36.5 3,317 24.8 2,785 83.1 2
Kings 33,383 23,973 1,081 22.6 9,406 28.2 5,697 19.9 3,709 77.4 4
New York 13,198 8,823 308 17.2 4,373 33.1 2,894 25.4 1,479 82.8 2
Queens 23,877 15,661 535 13.4 8,210 34.4 4,748 23.9 3,462 86.6 6
Richmond 4,908 3,123 85 9.2 1,785 36.4 947 23.8 838 90.8 0
Rest of State
Rest of State 114,718 74,051 2,623 12.7 40,144 35.2 22,169 23.7 17,975 87.3 523
Albany 2,819 1,770 85 17.4 1,048 37.2 645 27.7 403 82.6 1
Allegany 472 314 13 14.9 146 31.7 72 19.3 74 85.1 12
Broome 1,685 1,102 13 4.6 580 34.5 308 22.0 272 95.4 3
Cattaraugus 796 444 7 5.6 250 36.0 133 23.3 117 94.4 102
Cayuga 706 462 8 6.8 243 34.5 133 22.7 110 93.2 1
Chautauqua 1,157 682 24 10.0 430 38.7 214 24.5 216 90.0 45
Chemung 802 537 16 11.4 265 33.0 141 21.3 124 88.6 0
Chenango 465 318 6 9.0 144 31.2 83 21.0 61 91.0 3
Clinton 615 406 18 16.8 203 33.3 114 22.7 89 83.2 6
Columbia 473 317 14 18.2 153 32.6 90 22.9 63 81.8 3
Cortland 455 315 5 7.8 122 27.9 63 16.9 59 92.2 18
Delaware 350 236 6 9.7 114 32.6 58 20.1 56 90.3 0
Dutchess 2,615 1,570 63 12.8 1,041 39.9 612 28.9 429 87.2 4
Erie 9,087 5,711 240 13.4 3,371 37.1 1,826 25.0 1,545 86.6 5
Essex 263 190 11 27.5 66 25.8 37 17.1 29 72.5 7
Franklin 441 286 11 13.8 142 33.2 73 21.0 69 86.3 13
Fulton 507 343 7 9.9 161 31.9 97 22.4 64 90.1 3
Genesee 553 393 21 21.9 160 28.9 85 18.6 75 78.1 0
Greene 379 234 9 14.1 145 38.3 90 28.6 55 85.9 0
Hamilton 24 17 0 0.0 7 29.2 6 26.1 1 100.0 0
Herkimer 591 385 9 7.8 199 34.1 92 19.7 107 92.2 7
Jefferson 1,759 1,251 29 12.2 490 28.1 282 18.8 208 87.8 18
Lewis 311 214 6 10.9 85 28.4 36 14.8 49 89.1 12
Livingston 518 362 24 28.2 149 29.2 88 20.7 61 71.8 7
Madison 574 370 6 5.8 196 34.6 99 21.4 97 94.2 8
Monroe 7,437 5,113 248 20.1 2,321 31.2 1,335 21.5 986 79.9 3
Montgomery 611 394 8 8.5 178 31.1 92 19.2 86 91.5 39
Nassau 13,747 8,682 228 9.1 5,060 36.8 2,771 24.7 2,289 90.9 5
Niagara 1,961 1,151 48 10.7 809 41.3 409 27.1 400 89.3 1
Oneida 2,185 1,429 50 11.4 743 34.2 354 20.4 389 88.6 13
Onondaga 4,627 2,983 86 10.7 1,640 35.5 920 24.1 720 89.3 4
Ontario 1,016 729 26 16.7 285 28.1 155 18.1 130 83.3 2
Orange 5,443 3,923 210 23.2 1,513 27.8 817 18.0 696 76.8 7
Orleans 376 241 11 14.3 135 35.9 69 23.1 66 85.7 0
Oswego 1,110 726 19 10.8 368 33.6 211 23.0 157 89.2 16
Otsego 458 330 11 17.2 116 26.0 63 16.5 53 82.8 12
Putnam 909 529 12 6.9 379 41.7 218 29.7 161 93.1 1
Rensselaer 1,483 983 33 13.6 497 33.6 288 23.3 209 86.4 3
Rockland 6,389 5,165 318 36.0 1,210 19.0 645 11.7 565 64.0 14
St Lawrence 905 511 11 6.2 307 37.5 140 21.9 167 93.8 87
Saratoga 2,082 1,359 32 9.7 721 34.7 423 24.2 298 90.3 2
Schenectady 1,662 1,092 34 12.2 570 34.3 326 23.6 244 87.8 0
Schoharie 253 169 5 14.7 83 32.9 54 24.8 29 85.3 1
Schuyler 139 104 4 22.2 35 25.2 21 17.4 14 77.8 0
Seneca 291 233 8 21.6 56 19.4 27 10.7 29 78.4 2
Steuben 988 642 24 12.3 342 34.8 171 21.7 171 87.7 4
Suffolk 16,104 9,093 225 6.6 7,005 43.5 3,822 30.1 3,183 93.4 6
Sullivan 974 649 20 12.7 324 33.3 186 22.8 138 87.3 1
Tioga 491 333 8 9.6 153 31.5 78 19.4 75 90.4 5
Tompkins 638 449 10 11.8 189 29.6 114 20.6 75 88.2 0
Ulster 1,540 951 30 11.2 586 38.1 348 27.4 238 88.8 3
Warren 537 357 7 8.3 180 33.5 103 22.7 77 91.7 0
Washington 533 348 6 7.5 183 34.5 109 24.2 74 92.5 2
Wayne 842 559 20 13.0 282 33.5 148 21.5 134 87.0 1
Westchester 9,913 6,104 197 10.8 3,802 38.4 2,172 26.9 1,630 89.2 7
Wyoming 342 227 8 16.3 114 33.4 73 25.0 41 83.7 1
Yates 315 264 15 45.5 48 15.4 30 10.8 18 54.5 3

1 VBAC - Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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

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

4 Primary % - Primary Cesarean/(Primary Cesarean+Vaginal without Previous Cesarean)*100.

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