Highest and Lowest Home Births Rates

by Local Administrative Area (2010)

England

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

West Somerset

11.4%

South Hams

9.5%

Penwith

9%

West Devon

8.6%

North Cornwall

7.9%

Average for England

2.49%

Lowest Rates

 

Slough

0.6%

Harrow

0.6%

Castle Morpeth

0.5%

Lichfield

0.4%

Oswestry

0.2%

Wansbeck

0.1%

Northern Ireland

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

Magherafelt

0.73%

Ards

0.7%

Lisburn

0.68%

Fermanagh

0.67%

North Down

0.63%

Average for Northern Ireland

0.38%

Lowest Rates

 

Antrim

0.13%

Banbridge

0.13%

Craigavon

0.07%

Dungannon

0%

Larne

0%

Scotland

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

Argyll & Bute

3.66%

East Lothian

2.93%

Edinburgh, City of

2.69%

Clackmannanshire

2.42%

Dumfries & Galloway

2.2%

Average for Scotland

1.39%

Lowest Rates

 

Perth and Kinross

0.54%

East Ayrshire

0.52%

Orkney Islands

0.51%

Inverclyde

0.5%

Eilean Siar (Western Isles)

0%

Wales

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

Bridgend

10.7%

Powys

7.6%

Ceredigion

5.5%

Monmouthshire

5.4%

Carmarthenshire

4.7%

Average for Wales

3.47%

Lowest Rates

 

Caerphilly

2%

Denbighshire

2%

Conwy

2%

Flintshire

1.8%

Anglesey, Isle of

1.8%

Merthyr Tydfil

1.4%

Home birth rates have been derived from information collected at birth registration provided to BirthChoiceUK by the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales, the General Register Office of Scotland and the General Register Office of Northern Ireland.