17-7. SC Infant Mortality by Race by County: 1996 1/
TOTAL WHITE BLACK & OTHER
COUNTY NUMBER RATE NUMBER RATE NUMBER RATE
Abbeville 4 11.9 1 4.7 3 24.6
Aiken 9 4.9 7 5.4 2 3.6
Allendale 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Anderson 10 4.8 7 4.3 3 6.7
Bamberg 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Barnwell 3 10.5 1 7.6 2 12.8
Beaufort 10 6.4 5 4.7 5 10.4
Berkeley 8 4.1 2 1.4 6 10.4
Calhoun 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Charleston 38 9.5 14 6.2 24 13.8
Cherokee 12 17.8 6 12.4 6 31.4
Chester 2 4.5 0 0.0 2 8.8
Chesterfield 5 8.8 0 0.0 5 20.2
Clarendon 3 7.5 1 5.9 2 8.6
Colleton 3 5.7 2 7.0 1 4.1
Darlington 8 9.3 2 5.0 6 13.0
Dillon 6 12.9 2 10.9 4 14.2
Dorchester 12 10.5 4 4.8 8 25.6
Edgefield 2 7.9 0 0.0 2 16.4
Fairfield 1 3.1 0 0.0 1 4.8
Florence 18 10.2 3 3.2 15 18.0
Georgetown 3 4.6 2 6.3 1 3.0
Greenville 28 5.7 18 4.8 10 8.7
Greenwood 16 18.5 6 11.4 10 29.5
Hampton 4 14.2 2 17.5 2 11.9
Horry 25 12.2 15 9.7 10 19.7
Jasper 2 6.5 0 0.0 2 11.4
Kershaw 7 11.4 4 9.6 3 15.5
Lancaster 6 7.9 1 2.0 5 20.2
Laurens 7 9.0 4 7.7 3 11.6
Lee 6 28.7 3 69.8 3 18.1
Lexington 16 5.5 10 4.2 6 11.4
McCormick 1 10.8 0 0.0 1 14.1
Marion 10 21.5 3 20.4 7 22.0
Marlboro 2 4.7 0 0.0 2 7.9
Newberry 4 9.5 4 16.8 0 0.0
Oconee 5 6.5 5 7.6 0 0.0
Orangeburg 9 7.5 3 7.3 6 7.7
Pickens 6 4.9 6 5.4 0 0.0
Richland 26 6.3 3 1.6 23 10.1
Saluda 3 13.9 2 15.3 1 11.8
Spartanburg 20 6.0 16 6.6 4 4.5
Sumter 36 21.8 5 6.2 31 37.1
Union 8 20.4 5 20.5 3 20.3
Williamsburg 10 20.9 0 0.0 10 28.5
York 10 5.1 5 3.4 5 10.5
South Carolina 424 8.3 179 5.5 245 13.0
1/: Rates per 1,000 live births.
Note: Residence data
Race = Race of Mother
Source: S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, Division of Biostatistics, Office of Public Health Statistics,
January 1998.
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