Though teen birth rates have declined dramatically in recent years, Texas maintains the 8th highest rate of teen birth in the nation, with a baby born to a teen mother once every 25 minutes.

 

The data tool below shows rates and counts of births to teens aged 15-19, by year and Texas county. You can use the orange button on the top right to toggle between map and trend line views.

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Data sources:

Teen birth counts were provided by Texas DSHS and/or pulled from CDC Wonder, accessed at https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html. 

Teen birth rates were calculated by Healthy Futures. 2023 rates used vintage 2023 postcensal single-race estimates of the resident population, accessed at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2023/counties/asrh/

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