US Counties With the Highest Women Who Gave Birth in the Past Year
2,187 US counties ranked by women who gave birth in the past year, from highest to lowest. First are Grant County, KS (62.19), Madison County, FL (35.28) and Haskell County, KS (32.48). The middle one of the 2,187 has 12.16.
What this measures
The number of women who said they gave birth in the past twelve months. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 14.54 |
| 2 | North Dakota | 14.35 |
| 3 | South Dakota | 14.02 |
| 4 | Texas | 13.94 |
| 5 | Wyoming | 13.78 |
| 6 | Kansas | 13.62 |
| 7 | Mississippi | 13.43 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 13.25 |
| 9 | Nebraska | 13.21 |
| 10 | Louisiana | 13.00 |
| 11 | Alaska | 12.98 |
| 12 | Georgia | 12.80 |
| 13 | Hawaii | 12.78 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 12.71 |
| 15 | Indiana | 12.66 |
| 16 | District of Columbia | 12.61 |
| 17 | Iowa | 12.56 |
| 18 | Idaho | 12.55 |
| 19 | Ohio | 12.37 |
| 20 | Washington | 12.37 |
| 21 | Missouri | 12.35 |
| 22 | New Mexico | 12.35 |
| 23 | Arkansas | 12.35 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 12.27 |
| 25 | Maryland | 12.23 |
| 26 | Tennessee | 12.20 |
| 27 | Arizona | 12.04 |
| 28 | North Carolina | 12.02 |
| 29 | Kentucky | 11.96 |
| 30 | Nevada | 11.87 |
| 31 | Montana | 11.87 |
| 32 | Illinois | 11.83 |
| 33 | Virginia | 11.79 |
| 34 | Colorado | 11.68 |
| 35 | California | 11.68 |
| 36 | New Jersey | 11.60 |
| 37 | New York | 11.58 |
| 38 | Alabama | 11.50 |
| 39 | Michigan | 11.49 |
| 40 | Pennsylvania | 11.30 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 11.01 |
| 42 | Delaware | 10.89 |
| 43 | Rhode Island | 10.63 |
| 44 | Florida | 10.58 |
| 45 | Massachusetts | 10.58 |
| 46 | West Virginia | 10.57 |
| 47 | Oregon | 10.44 |
| 48 | Maine | 10.20 |
| 49 | Connecticut | 10.16 |
| 50 | New Hampshire | 9.53 |
| 51 | Vermont | 8.76 |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | 6.54 |
More on women who gave birth in the past year
- US Counties With the Lowest Women Who Gave Birth in the Past Year
- Women who gave birth in the past year by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.