1993 Annual Report of Vital Statistics Department of Health, City of New Haven
 

Births by Neighborhood

The section of New Haven known as the "Hill" recorded the greatest number of births in 1993, with a total of 351 births. This area of the city also had the most births in the previous three years. The Hill section had a birth rate of 20.1 per 1,000 residents.

The Yale District of New Haven recorded a total of 7 live births in 1993. Again this was the least number of births of all neighborhoods in that year. The Yale District section's birth rate was 1.3 per 1,000. The number of births per neighborhood for the years 1990 - 1993 are summarized in Table 5, below.

TABLE 5
Total Births by Neighborhood
New Haven: 1990 - 1993

  1993 White Nonwhite 1992 1991 1990
Central Business District 9 1 8 6 12 13
Long Wharf-Church St. South 32 11 21 22 29 37
Hill 351 147 204 400 455 503
Dwight 97 29 68 108 124 121
Edgewood-West River 173 61 112 176 208 186
Westville 77 58 19 85 83 77
West Hills 185 51 134 192 205 212
Beaver Hills 76 26 50 88 71 87
Newhallville 124 4 120 133 164 173
Dixwell 116 13 103 130 135 138
Yale 7 4 3 8 8 7
Prospect Hill 80 20 60 72 68 97
East Rock 88 62 26 96 88 96
Wooster Square 48 21 27 52 47 44
Fair Haven 319 205 114 332 326 330
Heights 179 112 67 190 214 195
East Shore (Annex) 126 99 27 115 123 123
Unknown 15 10 5 16 19 26
Totals 2102 934 1168 2221 2379 2465

 
This document was digitized on February 25, 1999 by Gillian Goldsmith Mayman as part of the New Haven Health Project.
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