Table 11 Births to Mothers 17 Years of Age and Younger by County of Residence

Table 11
Births to Mothers 17 Years of Age and Younger
by Public Health Region, County of Residence, and Race/Ethnicity
Texas, 2015

Geographic Area	Total Number	Total Percent	White Number**	White** Percent	Black Number	Black Percent	Hispanic Number	Hispanic Percent
Texas	10,156	2.5	1,760	1.1	1,239	2.6	7,157	3.7
Region 1	452	3.7	104	1.7	36	5	312	5.5
Region 2	216	3.1	106	2.3	16	3.5	94	4.9
Region 3	2,170	2.1	449	0.9	422	2.6	1,299	3.4
Region 4	437	3	203	2.3	94	4.1	140	4.1
Region 5	284	2.7	129	2.2	75	3.3	80	3.7
Region 6	2,120	2	316	0.8	413	2.3	1,391	3
Region 7	861	1.9	187	0.8	116	2.5	558	3.4
Region 8	1,138	2.8	121	0.9	49	2.4	968	3.8
Region 9	329	3.1	66	1.5	10	2.9	253	4.3
Region 10	438	3.2	13	0.6	3	0.7	422	3.8
Region 11	1,711	4.4	66	2	5	2	1,640	4.6
Anderson	29	4.6	19	5	2	1.9	8	5.4
Andrews	5	1.5	1	0.9	0	-	4	2
Angelina	31	2.6	18	2.6	4	2	9	2.7
Aransas	10	3.6	3	1.9	0	-	7	6.1
Archer	2	2.6	1	1.4	0	-	1	*
Armstrong	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Atascosa	29	4.2	9	3.9	0	-	20	4.4
Austin	9	2.6	4	2.3	1	2.7	4	3
Bailey	7	5.1	3	5.3	0	-	4	5.1
Bandera	2	1.3	2	1.8	0	-	0	-
Bastrop	33	3.1	10	2.1	1	1.9	22	4.3
Baylor	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Bee	18	4.4	0	-	0	-	18	5.9
Bell	102	1.6	32	0.9	25	1.8	45	2.7
Bexar	689	2.4	60	0.7	39	2.1	590	3.2
Blanco	1	1	1	1.4	0	-	0	-
Borden	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Bosque	4	2.2	1	0.8	0	-	3	5.7
Bowie	41	3.3	18	2.4	18	4.7	5	4.1
Brazoria	85	1.7	34	1.3	6	1.1	45	2.7
Brazos	65	2.2	18	1.1	14	3.9	33	3.6
Brewster	5	5.2	2	4.3	0	-	3	6.4
Briscoe	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Brooks	5	4.3	0	-	0	-	5	4.5
Brown	8	2	3	1	1	*	4	3.9
Burleson	4	1.9	2	1.5	1	3.1	1	2
Burnet	17	3.2	4	1.3	0	-	13	6
Caldwell	16	3	3	1.6	0	-	13	3.9
Calhoun	11	3.4	1	0.7	0	-	10	5.6
Callahan	5	3.4	3	2.4	0	-	2	*
Cameron	361	5	36	11.2	1	3.3	324	4.7
Camp	5	2.9	2	2.2	0	-	3	4.9
Carson	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Cass	12	3.1	4	1.4	6	9	2	8
Castro	4	3.2	0	-	0	-	4	4.2
Chambers	4	0.8	2	0.6	1	2.5	1	0.8
Cherokee	27	3.3	12	2.8	1	1	14	4.7
Childress	4	6.5	2	5.9	0	-	2	8.3
Clay	3	3.6	2	2.5	0	-	1	*
Cochran	1	2.6	0	-	0	-	1	4
Coke	1	2.6	1	3.2	0	-	0	-
Coleman	3	4.2	0	-	0	-	3	*
Collin	88	0.8	29	0.4	6	0.6	53	2.6
Collingsworth	1	3.8	0	-	0	-	1	*
Colorado	6	2.3	1	0.9	2	4.4	3	2.7
Comal	37	2.3	12	1.2	1	4.5	24	4
Comanche	7	4	5	4.5	0	-	2	3.2
Concho	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Cooke	19	3.5	10	2.8	0	-	9	5.6
Coryell	11	1.1	7	0.9	0	-	4	2.2
Cottle	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Crane	4	5.1	0	-	0	-	4	6.8
Crockett	4	7.1	1	*	0	-	3	7.5
Crosby	3	3.3	0	-	0	-	3	5
Culberson	2	5.6	0	-	0	-	2	7.1
Dallam	10	6.4	1	1.5	0	-	9	9.9
Dallas	1,081	2.7	90	0.7	252	2.9	739	3.8
Dawson	7	3.4	0	-	0	-	7	5.6
Deaf Smith	23	6.6	0	-	0	-	23	7.5
Delta	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Denton	107	1.1	26	0.4	10	1	71	2.9
Dewitt	8	3	1	0.6	0	-	7	6.9
Dickens	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Dimmit	7	4	0	-	0	-	7	4.6
Donley	3	9.4	1	4.2	1	*	1	*
Duval	6	3.3	0	-	0	-	6	3.5
Eastland	3	1.5	3	1.8	0	-	0	-
Ector	96	3.2	19	2	4	4.4	73	3.7
Edwards	2	9.1	0	-	0	-	2	*
Ellis	46	2.2	16	1.3	7	3.6	23	3.4
El Paso	424	3.1	11	0.5	3	0.7	410	3.7
Erath	11	2.5	7	2.3	0	-	4	2.8
Falls	6	2.9	2	1.9	0	-	4	7.4
Fannin	7	2	4	1.4	1	*	2	3.6
Fayette	4	1.4	1	0.6	1	3.7	2	2.1
Fisher	5	10	1	2.8	0	-	4	*
Floyd	1	1.3	0	-	0	-	1	1.8
Foard	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Fort Bend	83	0.8	9	0.2	26	1.2	48	1.9
Franklin	2	1.6	1	1	0	-	1	4.3
Freestone	5	2.3	1	0.8	3	10.3	1	1.7
Frio	14	5.8	0	-	0	-	14	6.6
Gaines	12	2.6	0	-	0	-	12	6.3
Galveston	83	2	28	1.2	17	3	38	3.1
Garza	6	8.5	0	-	1	*	5	13.5
Gillespie	4	1.6	0	-	0	-	4	3.9
Glasscock	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Goliad	1	1.3	1	2.4	0	-	0	-
Gonzales	13	3.8	2	1.9	0	-	11	5
Gray	14	4.1	2	1	1	*	11	8.8
Grayson	41	2.6	20	1.7	7	8.2	14	4.2
Gregg	64	3.4	24	2.5	24	6.2	16	3.1
Grimes	4	1.2	1	0.6	0	-	3	2.7
Guadalupe	43	2.3	11	1.1	5	5.9	27	3.5
Hale	27	5.6	1	0.6	0	-	26	8.3
Hall	1	4.5	1	*	0	-	0	-
Hamilton	1	1.1	1	1.4	0	-	0	-
Hansford	2	2.7	0	-	0	-	2	4.2
Hardeman	4	7.7	4	13.8	0	-	0	-
Hardin	14	2	13	2.1	1	2.4	0	-
Harris	1,629	2.2	146	0.6	342	2.5	1,141	3.1
Harrison	26	3.1	7	1.5	8	4.9	11	5.7
Hartley	2	3.7	0	-	0	-	2	*
Haskell	2	3.5	1	2.6	0	-	1	*
Hays	38	1.5	4	0.3	3	4.8	31	2.6
Hemphill	3	3.9	1	2.5	0	-	2	5.7
Henderson	28	3.1	18	2.7	2	3.8	8	4.3
Hidalgo	690	4.3	3	0.6	0	-	687	4.4
Hill	8	2.1	5	2.2	2	7.4	1	0.8
Hockley	9	2.7	2	1.7	1	*	6	2.8
Hood	12	1.8	8	1.5	0	-	4	3.2
Hopkins	13	2.9	8	2.8	1	2.8	4	3.3
Houston	5	2.2	2	1.6	1	1.5	2	5.7
Howard	23	4.8	6	2.7	1	*	16	6.6
Hudspeth	2	4.4	0	-	0	-	2	5.1
Hunt	27	2.5	19	2.5	1	1.3	7	2.6
Hutchinson	12	4.2	8	4.1	0	-	4	4.8
Irion	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Jack	3	2.9	0	-	0	-	3	9.7
Jackson	4	1.9	0	-	1	*	3	3.1
Jasper	12	2.5	8	2.2	2	2.9	2	4.5
Jeff Davis	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Jefferson	119	3.1	25	1.8	53	3.9	41	4
Jim Hogg	2	2.2	0	-	0	-	2	2.5
Jim Wells	24	3.8	3	3.3	0	-	21	3.9
Johnson	62	3	42	2.9	1	2	19	3.3
Jones	6	4.1	4	3.9	0	-	2	4.7
Karnes	6	3.3	1	1.8	0	-	5	4.2
Kaufman	34	2.2	22	2.3	1	0.6	11	2.7
Kendall	2	0.5	0	-	0	-	2	1.4
Kenedy	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Kent	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Kerr	14	2.6	5	1.7	0	-	9	3.8
Kimble	4	10.3	0	-	0	-	4	*
King	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Kinney	3	6.4	0	-	0	-	3	7.7
Kleberg	17	3.9	1	1	0	-	16	4.9
Knox	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Lamar	16	2.4	7	1.4	5	4.8	4	5.8
Lamb	10	5.3	1	1.8	0	-	9	7.2
Lampasas	7	3.2	3	2	0	-	4	5.9
La Salle	3	2.9	0	-	0	-	3	3.4
Lavaca	3	1.3	1	0.6	1	*	1	1.5
Lee	2	1	0	-	0	-	2	2.8
Leon	5	2.3	3	2	1	*	1	1.7
Liberty	29	2.6	16	2.2	0	-	13	3.9
Limestone	6	1.9	2	1.3	1	2.2	3	2.7
Lipscomb	2	4.2	2	7.4	0	-	0	-
Live Oak	2	1.5	0	-	0	-	2	2.4
Llano	3	1.7	2	1.4	0	-	1	2.8
Loving	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Lubbock	134	3.3	27	1.3	20	5.7	87	5.1
Lynn	3	4.3	2	4.9	0	-	1	3.6
Mcculloch	4	4.6	2	3.7	0	-	2	6.1
Mclennan	107	3	25	1.4	32	5.7	50	4.1
Mcmullen	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Madison	4	2.8	1	1.3	2	7.4	1	2.5
Marion	5	4.8	4	5	0	-	1	*
Martin	4	4.3	1	2.9	0	-	3	5.2
Mason	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Matagorda	21	3.9	1	0.5	0	-	20	6.8
Maverick	64	5.6	1	1.9	0	-	63	5.7
Medina	19	3.2	4	1.7	0	-	15	4.4
Menard	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Midland	76	2.5	14	1	5	3	57	3.8
Milam	2	0.6	0	-	0	-	2	1.8
Mills	3	10	1	4.5	0	-	2	*
Mitchell	7	8	2	3.8	1	*	4	13.8
Montague	6	2.5	5	2.6	0	-	1	2.2
Montgomery	120	1.6	61	1.3	5	1.5	54	2.4
Moore	26	5.9	7	4.8	1	*	18	6.3
Morris	5	3.1	2	1.9	1	3.2	2	8
Motley	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Nacogdoches	28	3.2	9	2.1	7	3.8	12	4.9
Navarro	25	3.8	9	3.1	4	3.9	12	4.5
Newton	3	2.2	2	2	0	-	1	*
Nolan	7	3.4	3	2.7	0	-	4	4.7
Nueces	172	3.4	11	0.8	4	2.6	157	4.4
Ochiltree	10	5.4	5	9.3	0	-	5	3.9
Oldham	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Orange	24	2	16	1.6	4	2.6	4	4.3
Palo Pinto	15	4.2	9	3.6	0	-	6	5.9
Panola	12	4.2	8	3.7	1	2.3	3	11.5
Parker	26	1.8	19	1.5	0	-	7	3.1
Parmer	4	2.5	0	-	0	-	4	3.7
Pecos	10	4.9	1	2.6	0	-	9	5.5
Polk	20	3.6	12	3	3	5.5	5	4.4
Potter	79	4.1	19	2.3	8	3.6	52	5.8
Presidio	5	4.6	0	-	0	-	5	5.3
Rains	2	2	1	1.1	0	-	1	*
Randall	29	1.7	14	1.2	2	3	13	3.2
Reagan	2	2.9	0	-	0	-	2	4.1
Real	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Red River	4	3.5	2	2.4	1	*	1	*
Reeves	12	5.8	1	2.7	0	-	11	6.6
Refugio	3	3	3	6.5	0	-	0	-
Roberts	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Robertson	5	2.4	2	1.8	2	4.8	1	1.8
Rockwall	11	1.1	7	0.9	1	1.8	3	1.4
Runnels	4	3.6	3	4.5	0	-	1	2.2
Rusk	19	2.9	13	3.3	2	2.2	4	2.4
Sabine	1	0.9	1	1	0	-	0	-
San Augustine	1	1.3	1	2	0	-	0	-
San Jacinto	5	1.8	4	1.8	0	-	1	2.3
San Patricio	34	3.3	4	1.2	0	-	30	4.4
San Saba	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Schleicher	1	4.3	0	-	0	-	1	*
Scurry	10	4.3	3	2.9	0	-	7	5.8
Shackelford	2	4.7	1	2.7	0	-	1	*
Shelby	11	2.8	8	3.6	0	-	3	2.8
Sherman	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Smith	75	2.4	21	1.3	20	3.6	34	3.8
Somervell	2	2.6	2	3.3	0	-	0	-
Starr	65	5.1	0	-	0	-	65	5.1
Stephens	4	3.4	3	3.7	0	-	1	2.7
Sterling	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Stonewall	2	*	2	*	0	-	0	-
Sutton	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Swisher	4	3.6	2	3.2	1	*	1	2.3
Tarrant	544	1.9	103	0.8	131	2.7	310	3.1
Taylor	60	2.9	26	2	9	4.5	25	4.2
Terrell	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Terry	13	6.9	2	3.3	0	-	11	8.9
Throckmorton	1	*	0	-	0	-	1	*
Titus	14	2.8	2	1.2	1	2.2	11	3.8
Tom Green	47	2.7	14	1.6	0	-	33	4.2
Travis	302	1.9	17	0.2	22	1.8	263	3.7
Trinity	7	4.6	7	6.1	0	-	0	-
Tyler	3	1.4	3	1.6	0	-	0	-
Upshur	15	3.3	11	3.2	0	-	4	5.9
Upton	2	3.3	0	-	0	-	2	6.5
Uvalde	24	5.6	2	2.2	0	-	22	6.5
Val Verde	62	6.9	0	-	0	-	62	8.1
Van Zandt	17	2.8	14	2.7	0	-	3	3.5
Victoria	52	3.8	4	0.7	2	3.4	46	6.1
Walker	14	2.1	6	1.6	4	2.6	4	2.8
Waller	16	2.7	6	2.5	2	2.1	8	3.1
Ward	12	6.1	5	5.7	0	-	7	6.7
Washington	10	2.5	5	2.4	1	1.4	4	3.3
Webb	279	5.2	2	1.5	0	-	277	5.3
Wharton	21	3.5	2	1	7	7.6	12	3.8
Wheeler	1	1.2	1	1.8	0	-	0	-
Wichita	50	2.9	25	2.2	4	2.2	21	5
Wilbarger	5	2.8	1	1.1	1	*	3	4.5
Willacy	10	3.4	0	-	0	-	10	3.6
Williamson	86	1.3	33	0.8	5	1.3	48	2.8
Wilson	11	2	4	1.2	0	-	7	3
Winkler	3	2.3	0	-	0	-	3	3.7
Wise	12	1.4	7	1.1	0	-	5	2.4
Wood	6	1.4	5	1.6	1	*	0	-
Yoakum	4	2.5	0	-	0	-	4	3.3
Young	7	3.3	5	3.3	0	-	2	3.2
Zapata	13	4.8	0	-	0	-	13	4.9
Zavala	11	5.6	0	-	0	-	11	6.1

Note: Denominator for percent is all births for which mother's age was reported for race/ethnic group and geographic area.
* Percent is not computed if denominator is less than or equal to 20.
- Percent is not computed if numerator is equal to 0.
** Includes: Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Other and Unknown race/ethnicity categories; as well as multiple race responses.

Definitions:
Race: A geographical population of humankind that possesses inherited distinctive physical characteristics that distinguish it from other populations.
Ethnicity: The classification of a population that shares common characteristics, such as religion, traditions, culture, language, and tribal or national origin.

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