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Maternal & child health…
Healthy people. Strong community.Epidemiology & Data Services · Data current August 2026
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Maternal & child health…
Maternal & child health · 2025
How pregnancies and babies are doing in our county: births, early care, premature births, and infant deaths. Infant deaths are rare, which is good news that also makes them the most heavily protected numbers we publish.
Births
3,098
-1.4%vs. prior yeardecrease compared with the prior year
Born Premature
9.8%
-2.0%vs. prior yeardecrease compared with the prior year
Before 37 weeks of pregnancy
Infant Mortality
5.1
Deaths per 1,000 births, five-year average
Teen Birth Rate
9.3
-9.7%vs. prior yeardecrease compared with the prior year
Births per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19
Annual births and the share of parents starting prenatal care in the first three months, 2016 through 2025.
Updated annually · as of 2025
| Year | Births | First-trimester care |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3,467 | 74.4% |
| 2017 | 3,386 | 74.8% |
| 2018 | 3,350 | 75.1% |
| 2019 | 3,343 | 75.5% |
| 2020 | 3,245 | 76.9% |
| 2021 | 3,216 | 77.9% |
| 2022 | 3,148 | 77.1% |
| 2023 | 3,156 | 77.2% |
| 2024 | 3,141 | 79.7% |
| 2025 | 3,098 | 79.4% |
InsightFirst-trimester prenatal care rose from 74% to 79% over the decade, even as births slowly declined.
Births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19, 2016 through 2025.
Updated annually · as of 2025
| Year | Teen birth rate | Preterm birth % |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 18.2 | 10.3% |
| 2017 | 17.0 | 10.6% |
| 2018 | 16.8 | 10.3% |
| 2019 | 15.7 | 10.1% |
| 2020 | 14.8 | 10.1% |
| 2021 | 13.6 | 10.3% |
| 2022 | 12.4 | 9.7% |
| 2023 | 11.0 | 10.0% |
| 2024 | 10.3 | 10.0% |
| 2025 | 9.3 | 9.8% |
InsightThe teen birth rate fell from 18.2 to 9.3 per 1,000, a 49% drop over the decade.
Infant deaths are counted across five years because single-year district numbers are too small to mean anything. Even so, the smallest districts stay suppressed. That is the system working.
Updated annually · as of 2025
| Sterling Falls | 1,154 | 24 | 4.2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North County | 737 | 16 | 4.3 * |
| Riverbend | 633 | 15 | 4.7 * |
| Caldwell East | 442 | < 11 | Suppressed |
| Highland | 132 | < 11 | Suppressed |
Counts under 11 are shown as "< 11" to protect privacy. Health data carries stricter small-number rules than most public data, because a diagnosis is among the most personal facts there is. Rows showing “< 11” are protected. Rates marked with * are based on fewer than 20 events. Small numbers jump around from year to year by chance, so treat these rates as a rough guide, not a precise measure.