Highest and Lowest Home Births Rates

by Local Administrative Area (2006)

England

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

West Somerset

14.2%

Mid Suffolk

11.6%

Teignbridge

10.4%

Penwith

10.2%

South Hams

9.7%

Average for England

2.69%

Lowest Rates

 

Harrow

0.6%

Wansbeck

0.6%

Wirral

0.5%

Middlesbrough

0.4%

Blyth Valley

0.4%

Northern Ireland

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

Moyle

1.64%

Coleraine

1.08%

Down

0.95%

Limavady

0.83%

Castlereagh

0.67%

Average for Northern Ireland

0.39%

Lowest Rates

 

Magherafelt

0.16%

Banbridge

0.16%

Omagh

0.15%

Ards

0.12%

Dungannon

0.12%

Armagh

0%

Scotland

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

East Lothian

4.8%

Argyll & Bute

3.3%

Dundee City

2.2%

Highland

2.1%

Dumfries & Galloway

2%

Edinburgh, City of

2%

Fife

2%

Moray

2%

Average for Scotland

1.36%

Lowest Rates

 

Falkirk

0.6%

Inverclyde

0.6%

West Dunbartonshire

0.4%

Renfrewshire

0.3%

East Renfrewshire

0.3%

Orkney Islands

0%

Wales

Highest Rates

Home Birth Rate

Powys

10.7%

Bridgend

9.3%

Ceredigion

5.8%

Pembrokeshire

5.6%

Gwynedd

5.2%

Average for Wales

3.53%

Lowest Rates

 

Wrexham

1.9%

Caerphilly

1.7%

Flintshire

1.6%

Merthyr Tydfil

1.3%

Conwy

0.9%

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.