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% Births to Moms with Less Than a High School Education in 2003

  County All White African-American and Other
1 Richland County 13.0 9.8 15.5
2 Dorchester County 15.5 15.2 16.4
3 Calhoun County 16.0 16.7 15.3
4 Lexington County 17.2 16.6 19.5
5 Berkeley County 17.3 18.0 15.5
6 Sumter County 17.4 13.0 21.7
7 Beaufort County 17.6 16.8 19.8
8 Barnwell County 18.0 16.6 19.4
9 Georgetown County 18.0 17.8 18.1
10 Florence County 18.4 14.2 23.1
11 Abbeville County 18.7 20.3 16.0
12 Charleston County 18.8 13.0 27.9
13 Williamsburg County 19.1 21.6 18.3
14 York County 19.8 19.4 21.2
15 Kershaw County 20.1 20.1 20.0
16 Greenville County 20.3 18.7 25.8
17 Clarendon County 21.5 21.9 21.3
18 Bamberg County 22.3 27.1 20.0
19 Fairfield County 22.4 18.8 24.2
20 Horry County 23.0 21.6 28.3
21 Marion County 23.0 21.1 23.9
22 McCormick County 23.1 16.0 26.4
23 Orangeburg County 23.3 24.2 22.9
24 Aiken County 23.4 22.5 25.4
25 Anderson County 23.4 21.5 30.2
26 Edgefield County 23.7 18.6 30.6
27 Darlington County 23.9 20.9 27.0
28 Spartanburg County 24.0 22.7 28.0
29 Hampton County 24.7 28.3 22.5
30 Lee County 25.2 18.6 27.7
31 Union County 25.7 24.0 28.7
32 Oconee County 25.8 25.4 30.0
33 Colleton County 25.9 23.9 28.0
34 Greenwood County 26.0 25.3 27.3
35 Pickens County 26.0 26.2 24.6
36 Lancaster County 26.1 25.5 27.5
37 Chesterfield County 26.9 24.5 30.1
38 Chester County 27.1 25.4 28.9
39 Jasper County 28.9 40.3 16.7
40 Newberry County 29.0 29.6 28.0
41 Cherokee County 29.2 27.6 33.5
42 Laurens County 29.7 27.2 36.0
43 Allendale County 32.1 17.6 35.9
44 Dillon County 33.3 34.8 32.2
45 Marlboro County 33.8 34.1 33.7
46 Saluda County 37.8 42.6 24.1
- South Carolina 20.9 19.5 23.5

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.

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