Number and Percent of Low Birthweight (LBW) Births
By County of Residence
West Virginia, 1999
Table 10

County	Number of Births	Low Birth- Weight	Percent LBW	County	Number of Births	Low Birth- Weight	Percent LBW
Barbour	184	18	9.8	Monongalia	828	57	6.9
Berkeley	1,006	86	8.5	Monroe	134	14	10.4
Boone	308	28	9.1	Morgan	150	4	2.7
Braxton	158	12	7.6	Nicholas	266	25	9.4
Brooke	242	20	8.3	Ohio	517	37	7.2
Cabell	1,133	123	10.9	Pendleton	86	5	5.8
Calhoun	79	10	12.7	Pleasants	97	4	4.1
Clay	138	4	2.9	Pocahontas	96	8	8.3
Doddridge	91	12	13.2	Preston	304	21	6.9
Fayette	566	48	8.5	Putnam	622	48	7.7
Gilmer	80	5	6.2	Raleigh	868	79	9.1
Grant	130	8	6.2	Randolph	346	25	7.2
Greenbrier	381	26	6.8	Ritchie	79	5	6.3
Hampshire	253	15	5.9	Roane	172	6	3.5
Hancock	347	30	8.6	Summers	100	14	14.0
Hardy	145	11	7.6	Taylor	164	16	9.8
Harrison	838	64	7.6	Tucker	77	9	11.7
Jackson	302	21	7.0	Tyler	113	9	8.0
Jefferson	540	40	7.4	Upshur	256	17	6.6
Kanawha	2,487	201	8.1	Wayne	529	45	8.5
Lewis	179	15	8.4	Webster	92	6	6.5
Lincoln	264	29	11.0	Wetzel	193	15	7.8
Logan	443	40	9.0	Wirt	62	7	11.3
McDowell	338	30	8.9	Wood	970	71	7.3
Marion	589	41	7.0	Wyoming	291	21	7.2
Marshall	347	27	7.8
Mason	312	33	10.6
Mercer	742	58	7.8	Total	20,731	1,667	8.0
Mineral	294	18	6.1
Mingo	403	26	6.5
County	Number of Births	Low Birth- Weight	Percent LBW	County	Number of Births	Low Birth- Weight	Percent LBW