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% Births to Mothers Less Than 20 in 2003

Rank* County All White AA&O
1 Richland County 10.0 4.8 14.2
2 Greenville County 10.4 9.1 14.6
3 Lexington County 10.5 9.2 16.1
4 Beaufort County 11.0 7.7 19.7
5 Georgetown County 11.3 9.4 13.6
6 Dorchester County 11.4 9.7 15.4
7 Charleston County 11.7 5.7 20.9
8 Horry County 11.8 9.4 20.6
9 Calhoun County 11.9 6.7 17.4
10 York County 12.0 10.4 17.3
11 Berkeley County 12.6 11.7 15.0
12 Pickens County 13.1 12.6 17.8
13 Aiken County 13.4 10.4 19.5
14 Anderson County 13.4 12.2 17.7
15 Lancaster County 13.5 12.2 16.6
16 Oconee County 13.7 13.5 15.7
17 Williamsburg County 14.1 9.4 15.8
18 Spartanburg County 14.2 11.6 22.2
19 Newberry County 14.5 10.4 22.0
20 Saluda County 14.6 13.8 16.7
21 Florence County 14.9 9.7 20.7
22 Kershaw County 14.9 11.5 23.2
23 Darlington County 15.2 12.4 18.1
24 Edgefield County 15.4 11.0 21.3
25 Abbeville County 15.7 13.2 20.2
26 Chesterfield County 15.7 11.8 21.0
27 Sumter County 16.2 11.5 20.7
28 Bamberg County 16.3 15.3 16.8
29 Union County 16.3 14.8 19.1
30 Orangeburg County 16.4 10.7 19.0
31 Colleton County 16.5 12.5 20.8
32 Greenwood County 16.5 14.8 19.7
33 Barnwell County 17.1 14.0 20.0
34 Laurens County 18.1 15.7 24.2
35 Lee County 18.3 11.4 20.7
36 Hampton County 18.5 15.0 20.5
37 Clarendon County 18.6 13.4 22.0
38 Marion County 18.6 12.6 21.3
39 Cherokee County 18.7 17.7 21.6
40 McCormick County 19.2 16.0 20.8
41 Fairfield County 19.7 10.3 24.2
42 Chester County 20.7 16.5 25.5
43 Dillon County 20.7 18.0 22.7
44 Jasper County 21.9 16.7 27.6
45 Marlboro County 22.8 22.3 23.1
46 Allendale County 30.2 11.8 35.2
- South Carolina 13.3 10.3 18.8

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.

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