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% Births to Mothers Less Than 18 in 2003

Rank* County All White AA&O
1 Lexington County 3.3 2.6 5.9
2 Greenville County 3.5 3.2 5.7
3 Horry County 3.6 2.4 8.7
4 Dorchester County 3.7 3.2 4.7
5 Berkeley County 3.8 2.9 5.8
6 Saluda County 3.8 3.1 5.7
7 Richland County 3.9 1.5 6.1
8 York County 3.9 3.3 6.5
9 Beaufort County 4.1 2.5 9.1
10 Abbeville County 4.2 3.3 6.0
11 Georgetown County 4.2 2.7 6.2
12 Anderson County 4.3 3.8 5.6
13 Barnwell County 4.3 2.5 6.0
14 Charleston County 4.4 1.7 8.9
15 Chesterfield County 4.4 2.3 6.9
16 Calhoun County 4.5 3.3 5.8
17 Kershaw County 4.6 3.8 6.5
18 Lancaster County 4.6 3.6 7.3
19 Williamsburg County 4.6 3.4 5.1
20 Aiken County 4.7 3.0 8.7
21 Oconee County 4.7 4.4 9.5
22 Newberry County 4.8 3.0 7.5
23 Orangeburg County 4.8 3.1 5.6
24 Pickens County 4.8 4.7 6.5
25 Sumter County 5.2 2.9 7.8
26 Bamberg County 5.4 6.8 4.9
27 Florence County 5.4 2.9 8.3
28 Spartanburg County 5.6 4.4 10.3
29 Darlington County 5.8 4.1 7.7
30 Colleton County 5.9 4.2 7.5
31 Edgefield County 5.9 2.1 11.3
32 Clarendon County 6.0 3.2 7.9
33 Hampton County 6.0 4.4 7.1
34 Greenwood County 6.6 5.8 8.6
35 Laurens County 6.7 5.7 9.0
36 Cherokee County 6.8 6.3 8.5
37 Lee County 6.8 4.3 7.8
38 Dillon County 7.0 5.3 8.9
39 Marlboro County 7.1 5.4 8.1
40 Marion County 7.2 3.3 9.1
41 Chester County 7.5 4.0 11.6
42 Fairfield County 7.9 4.1 9.9
43 Union County 8.3 7.1 10.8
44 Jasper County 9.0 7.7 10.6
45 McCormick County 10.3 4.0 13.2
46 Allendale County 14.2 2.9 17.2
- South Carolina 4.6 3.2 7.5

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.

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