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South Carolina Kids Count County Ranking Sheets


Percentage of Births to Moms with Less Than a High School Education in 2005

  County All White African-American and Other
1 Calhoun 15.0 11.4 18.2
2 Richland 16.1 11.0 20.0
3 Dorchester 17.2 16.2 19.4
4 McCormick 18.2 10.0 23.4
5 Berkeley 19.2 19.1 19.4
6 York 19.8 19.4 20.8
7 Lexington 20.1 18.8 24.8
8 Florence 21.3 14.1 27.9
9 Abbeville 21.6 19.2 26.4
10 Beaufort 21.7 22.8 19.2
11 Sumter 21.9 15.5 28.0
12 Kershaw 21.9 19.9 26.7
13 Georgetown 21.9 18.9 26.1
14 Charleston 21.9 17.1 29.1
15 Pickens 23.5 23.2 27.9
16 Edgefield 23.9 19.1 29.3
17 Anderson 24.3 22.3 32.6
18 Clarendon 24.3 18.4 26.2
19 Aiken 24.8 23.2 27.5
20 Hampton 24.9 26.8 23.8
21 Greenville 24.9 24.1 27.6
22 Orangeburg 25.0 26.7 24.3
23 Oconee 25.4 25.2 27.4
24 Bamberg 25.7 19.2 28.1
25 Horry 25.7 24.7 28.8
26 Marion 26.3 22.6 27.8
27 Fairfield 26.5 20.4 29.4
28 Colleton 27.4 28.4 26.3
29 Darlington 27.7 22.4 33.4
30 Spartanburg 27.8 25.8 33.7
31 Chesterfield 28.7 23.9 35.5
32 Williamsburg 29.3 23.9 31.1
33 Greenwood 29.3 27.7 32.0
34 Barnwell 29.9 28.1 31.5
35 Lancaster 29.9 28.7 32.3
36 Chester 30.8 31.6 29.7
37 Newberry 31.4 29.1 35.5
38 Lee 31.6 25.0 33.5
39 Laurens 32.3 33.1 30.6
40 Union 32.5 33.3 30.8
41 Cherokee 33.8 32.8 36.5
42 Dillon 34.7 33.8 35.4
43 Marlboro 35.8 32.3 37.8
44 Jasper 37.1 47.0 24.1
45 Allendale 38.5 37.0 38.8
46 Saluda 41.3 46.5 27.8
  South Carolina 23.7 22.0 26.8

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.

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