2021 NC Resident Live Births:
Medicaid Deliveries by County of Residence

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Residence TOTAL MOTHER'S MEDICAID STATUS
Prenatal Medicaid1 Emergency Medicaid2 Non-Medicaid
Births Births Births
# % # % # %
Total 120,501 55,229 45.8 7,158 5.9 58,114 48.2
Alamance 1,930 996 51.6 127 6.6 807 41.8
Alexander 371 209 56.3 5 1.3 157 42.3
Alleghany 110 67 60.9 3 2.7 40 36.4
Anson 263 204 77.6 1 0.4 58 22.1
Ashe 211 124 58.8 7 3.3 80 37.9
Avery 138 74 53.6 4 2.9 60 43.5
Beaufort 456 285 62.5 22 4.8 149 32.7
Bertie 158 113 71.5 0 0 45 28.5
Bladen 352 252 71.6 24 6.8 76 21.6
Brunswick 1,114 600 53.9 54 4.8 460 41.3
Buncombe 2,447 1,069 43.7 126 5.1 1,252 51.2
Burke 884 509 57.6 71 8.0 304 34.4
Cabarrus 2,684 1,092 40.7 134 5.0 1,458 54.3
Caldwell 720 488 67.8 30 4.2 202 28.1
Camden 82 22 26.8 0 0 60 73.2
Carteret 494 215 43.5 16 3.2 263 53.2
Caswell 184 121 65.8 6 3.3 57 31.0
Catawba 1,674 973 58.1 62 3.7 639 38.2
Chatham 652 184 28.2 69 10.6 399 61.2
Cherokee 244 149 61.1 1 0.4 94 38.5
Chowan 147 81 55.1 8 5.4 58 39.5
Clay 76 42 55.3 2 2.6 32 42.1
Cleveland 1,160 751 64.7 14 1.2 395 34.1
Columbus 608 359 59.0 13 2.1 236 38.8
Craven 1,235 499 40.4 17 1.4 719 58.2
Cumberland 5,239 2,374 45.3 58 1.1 2,807 53.6
Currituck 340 80 23.5 2 0.6 258 75.9
Dare 295 120 40.7 32 10.8 143 48.5
Davidson 1,792 995 55.5 73 4.1 724 40.4
Davie 412 194 47.1 16 3.9 202 49.0
Duplin 725 397 54.8 134 18.5 194 26.8
Durham 4,245 1,365 32.2 391 9.2 2,489 58.6
Edgecombe 610 487 79.8 18 3.0 105 17.2
Forsyth 4,437 2,230 50.3 392 8.8 1,815 40.9
Franklin 809 393 48.6 37 4.6 379 46.8
Gaston 2,684 1,442 53.7 130 4.8 1,112 41.4
Gates 96 42 43.8 1 1.0 53 55.2
Graham 91 71 78.0 0 0 20 22.0
Granville 655 330 50.4 31 4.7 294 44.9
Greene 193 111 57.5 27 14.0 55 28.5
Guilford 5,794 3,146 54.3 315 5.4 2,333 40.3
Halifax 541 409 75.6 10 1.8 122 22.6
Harnett 1,872 766 40.9 96 5.1 1,010 54.0
Haywood 521 287 55.1 10 1.9 224 43.0
Henderson 998 454 45.5 78 7.8 466 46.7
Hertford 173 118 68.2 2 1.2 53 30.6
Hoke 965 374 38.8 43 4.5 548 56.8
Hyde 37 13 35.1 2 5.4 22 59.5
Iredell 1,933 944 48.8 54 2.8 935 48.4
Jackson 318 205 64.5 11 3.5 102 32.1
Johnston 2,770 1,179 42.6 203 7.3 1,388 50.1
Jones 79 46 58.2 2 2.5 31 39.2
Lee 769 408 53.1 95 12.4 266 34.6
Lenoir 659 475 72.1 29 4.4 155 23.5
Lincoln 896 407 45.4 17 1.9 472 52.7
McDowell 406 250 61.6 15 3.7 141 34.7
Macon 311 184 59.2 44 14.1 83 26.7
Madison 198 112 56.6 0 0 86 43.4
Martin 219 134 61.2 9 4.1 76 34.7
Mecklenburg 15,061 5,287 35.1 1,428 9.5 8,346 55.4
Mitchell 127 68 53.5 5 3.9 54 42.5
Montgomery 243 168 69.1 24 9.9 51 21.0
Moore 1,208 411 34.0 29 2.4 768 63.6
Nash 1,054 650 61.7 45 4.3 359 34.1
New Hanover 2,156 870 40.4 171 7.9 1,115 51.7
Northampton 159 126 79.2 7 4.4 26 16.4
Onslow 3,858 1,019 26.4 42 1.1 2,797 72.5
Orange 1,193 358 30.0 95 8.0 740 62.0
Pamlico 86 58 67.4 2 2.3 26 30.2
Pasquotank 466 229 49.1 16 3.4 221 47.4
Pender 666 280 42.0 42 6.3 344 51.7
Perquimans 132 75 56.8 1 0.8 56 42.4
Person 456 286 62.7 10 2.2 160 35.1
Pitt 2,093 1,109 53.0 70 3.3 914 43.7
Polk 158 91 57.6 5 3.2 62 39.2
Randolph 1,499 887 59.2 89 5.9 523 34.9
Richmond 536 438 81.7 17 3.2 81 15.1
Robeson 1,847 1,355 73.4 176 9.5 316 17.1
Rockingham 861 504 58.5 20 2.3 337 39.1
Rowan 1,612 942 58.4 88 5.5 582 36.1
Rutherford 633 427 67.5 7 1.1 199 31.4
Sampson 801 445 55.6 146 18.2 210 26.2
Scotland 401 327 81.5 2 0.5 72 18.0
Stanly 701 378 53.9 11 1.6 312 44.5
Stokes 422 231 54.7 2 0.5 189 44.8
Surry 718 438 61.0 41 5.7 239 33.3
Swain 181 139 76.8 5 2.8 37 20.4
Transylvania 262 166 63.4 12 4.6 84 32.1
Tyrrell 39 21 53.8 3 7.7 15 38.5
Union 2,443 810 33.2 161 6.6 1,472 60.3
Vance 547 430 78.6 32 5.9 85 15.5
Wake 13,168 3,828 29.1 897 6.8 8,443 64.1
Warren 162 117 72.2 6 3.7 39 24.1
Washington 112 78 69.6 1 0.9 33 29.5
Watauga 312 125 40.1 2 0.6 185 59.3
Wayne 1,601 857 53.5 146 9.1 598 37.4
Wilkes 662 404 61.0 33 5.0 225 34.0
Wilson 872 506 58.0 47 5.4 319 36.6
Yadkin 344 187 54.4 26 7.6 131 38.1
Yancey 173 84 48.6 3 1.7 86 49.7

1Medicaid paid for prenatal care and delivery.

2Medicaid paid for delivery only, not prenatal care.

% Columns may not sum to 100.0% due to rounding.

Source: State Center for Health Statistics, NC Department of Health and Human Services.