YTD2025 QUARTER 3 (JAN-SEP) NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT BIRTHS BY COUNTY OF RESIDENCE AND BREASTFEEDING INITIATION STATUS

  TOTAL INFANT BEING BREASTFED AT DISCHARGE
No Unk Yes
# % # % # % # %
TOTAL 91,532 100.0 13,380 14.6 1,580 1.7 76,572 83.7
COUNTY OF RESIDENCE: 1,486 1.6 223 15.0 13 0.9 1,250 84.1
Alamance
Alexander 270 0.3 51 18.9 3 1.1 216 80.0
Alleghany 60 0.1 12 20.0 0 0.0 48 80.0
Anson 181 0.2 57 31.5 3 1.7 121 66.9
Apex 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Ashe 159 0.2 25 15.7 3 1.9 131 82.4
Avery 89 0.1 9 10.1 1 1.1 79 88.8
Beaufort 332 0.4 78 23.5 0 0.0 254 76.5
Bertie 85 0.1 32 37.6 0 0.0 53 62.4
Bladen 274 0.3 64 23.4 22 8.0 188 68.6
Brunswick 1,066 1.2 166 15.6 4 0.4 896 84.1
Buncombe 1,764 1.9 115 6.5 5 0.3 1,644 93.2
Burke 657 0.7 140 21.3 3 0.5 514 78.2
Cabarrus 2,052 2.2 215 10.5 22 1.1 1,815 88.5
Caldwell 647 0.7 123 19.0 7 1.1 517 79.9
Camden 37 0.0 12 32.4 0 0.0 25 67.6
Carteret 343 0.4 48 14.0 1 0.3 294 85.7
Caswell 143 0.2 29 20.3 5 3.5 109 76.2
Catawba 1,272 1.4 187 14.7 3 0.2 1,082 85.1
Chatam 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Chatham 466 0.5 35 7.5 4 0.9 427 91.6
Cherokee 30 0.0 5 16.7 0 0.0 25 83.3
Chowan 102 0.1 37 36.3 1 1.0 64 62.7
Clay 8 0.0 3 37.5 0 0.0 5 62.5
Cleveland 822 0.9 259 31.5 5 0.6 558 67.9
Columbus 399 0.4 154 38.6 86 21.6 159 39.8
Craven 959 1.0 170 17.7 8 0.8 781 81.4
Cumberland 3,822 4.2 731 19.1 58 1.5 3,033 79.4
Currituck 75 0.1 15 20.0 1 1.3 59 78.7
Dare 159 0.2 17 10.7 0 0.0 142 89.3
Davidson 1,282 1.4 199 15.5 36 2.8 1,047 81.7
Davie 360 0.4 42 11.7 9 2.5 309 85.8
Duplin 500 0.5 100 20.0 1 0.2 399 79.8
Durham 3,185 3.5 270 8.5 36 1.1 2,879 90.4
Edgecombe 420 0.5 175 41.7 4 1.0 241 57.4
Forsyth 3,404 3.7 411 12.1 126 3.7 2,867 84.2
Fosyth 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Franklin 746 0.8 89 11.9 18 2.4 639 85.7
Gaston 2,253 2.5 533 23.7 62 2.8 1,658 73.6
Gates 35 0.0 8 22.9 0 0.0 27 77.1
Graham 56 0.1 10 17.9 4 7.1 42 75.0
Granville 453 0.5 77 17.0 21 4.6 355 78.4
Greene 163 0.2 33 20.2 0 0.0 130 79.8
Guilford 4,135 4.5 776 18.8 222 5.4 3,137 75.9
Halifax 342 0.4 136 39.8 2 0.6 204 59.6
Hanrett 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Harnett 1,644 1.8 225 13.7 31 1.9 1,388 84.4
Harrett 1 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0
Haywood 419 0.5 55 13.1 3 0.7 361 86.2
Henderson 767 0.8 58 7.6 3 0.4 706 92.0
Hertford 131 0.1 41 31.3 0 0.0 90 68.7
Hoke 628 0.7 98 15.6 18 2.9 512 81.5
Huntersville 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Hyde 19 0.0 4 21.1 0 0.0 15 78.9
Iredell 1,660 1.8 216 13.0 35 2.1 1,409 84.9
Jackson 249 0.3 23 9.2 6 2.4 220 88.4
Johnson 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Johnston 2,387 2.6 285 11.9 12 0.5 2,090 87.6
Jones 59 0.1 15 25.4 0 0.0 44 74.6
Lee 631 0.7 72 11.4 49 7.8 510 80.8
Lenior 13 0.0 4 30.8 0 0.0 9 69.2
Lenoir 457 0.5 150 32.8 0 0.0 307 67.2
Lillington 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Lincoln 727 0.8 108 14.9 12 1.7 607 83.5
Macon 259 0.3 31 12.0 3 1.2 225 86.9
Madison 140 0.2 13 9.3 0 0.0 127 90.7
Martin 186 0.2 53 28.5 0 0.0 133 71.5
McDowell 342 0.4 64 18.7 5 1.5 273 79.8
Mebane 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Mecklenburg 11,477 12.5 963 8.4 70 0.6 10,444 91.0
Mitchell 82 0.1 9 11.0 3 3.7 70 85.4
Montgomery 219 0.2 47 21.5 19 8.7 153 69.9
Moore 957 1.0 97 10.1 96 10.0 764 79.8
Nash 801 0.9 228 28.5 9 1.1 564 70.4
New Hanover 1,654 1.8 163 9.9 2 0.1 1,489 90.0
Northampton 99 0.1 45 45.5 0 0.0 54 54.5
Onslow 2,904 3.2 357 12.3 13 0.4 2,534 87.3
Orange 786 0.9 56 7.1 8 1.0 722 91.9
Pamlico 52 0.1 10 19.2 0 0.0 42 80.8
Pasquotank 226 0.2 60 26.5 3 1.3 163 72.1
Pender 552 0.6 47 8.5 1 0.2 504 91.3
Perquimans 53 0.1 17 32.1 0 0.0 36 67.9
Person 343 0.4 51 14.9 7 2.0 285 83.1
Pitt 1,548 1.7 244 15.8 2 0.1 1,302 84.1
Polk 94 0.1 14 14.9 0 0.0 80 85.1
Raleigh 1 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Randolph 1,244 1.4 223 17.9 21 1.7 1,000 80.4
Richmond 395 0.4 103 26.1 46 11.6 246 62.3
Robeson 1,455 1.6 568 39.0 15 1.0 872 59.9
Rockingham 718 0.8 188 26.2 39 5.4 491 68.4
Rougemont 1 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Rowan 1,183 1.3 209 17.7 12 1.0 962 81.3
Rutherford 460 0.5 115 25.0 1 0.2 344 74.8
Sampson 591 0.6 79 13.4 15 2.5 497 84.1
Scotland 300 0.3 145 48.3 13 4.3 142 47.3
Stanley 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Stanly 605 0.7 123 20.3 9 1.5 473 78.2
Stokes 332 0.4 51 15.4 9 2.7 272 81.9
Surry 580 0.6 108 18.6 10 1.7 462 79.7
Swain 114 0.1 12 10.5 1 0.9 101 88.6
Transylvania 170 0.2 13 7.6 0 0.0 157 92.4
Tyrrell 23 0.0 4 17.4 0 0.0 19 82.6
Union 2,023 2.2 227 11.2 3 0.1 1,793 88.6
Vance 435 0.5 146 33.6 17 3.9 272 62.5
Wake 9,977 10.9 596 6.0 120 1.2 9,261 92.8
Warren 123 0.1 35 28.5 3 2.4 85 69.1
Washington 80 0.1 37 46.3 1 1.3 42 52.5
Watauga 236 0.3 15 6.4 9 3.8 212 89.8
Wayne 1,227 1.3 233 19.0 3 0.2 991 80.8
Wilkes 475 0.5 150 31.6 8 1.7 317 66.7
Wilson 697 0.8 144 20.7 1 0.1 552 79.2
Yadkin 295 0.3 51 17.3 11 3.7 233 79.0
Yancey 124 0.1 9 7.3 3 2.4 112 90.3

Prepared by NC DHHS/Division of Public Health/State Center for Health Statistics 23OCT25
CAUTION: Data shown are provisional and include only resident events occurring within North Carolina. Data does not reflect events affecting North Carolina
residents that occurred in other states. Therefore provisional data will not match the final number of resident events reported.