State intelligence

Delaware: births, delivery capacity and legal capacity

By Kevin Schwaner, Founder; Chief Marketing OfficerUpdated 25 August 2026

Delaware recorded 10,437 births in 2024 across 3 counties, served by 6 hospitals confirmed to provide inpatient labour and delivery, with 1 more whose status CMS does not report. There are 429 Offices of Lawyers establishments statewide, across all practice areas.

Births, 2024: 10,437+2.6% since 2021
Delivering hospitals: 61 more not reported
Offices of Lawyers: 429CBP 2023, NAICS 541110, all practice areas
Births per lawyer office: 24.3national median for 500+ birth counties: 34.3

Births by county

Births, 2024 ≤ 118 > 3,838

Figure 1. Hover any county for births, lawyer offices and delivering hospitals. Projected at build time; no mapping library on this page.

Figure 2: Delaware against the national series. Only the first two series are time series; the third and fourth are single-year values shown flat, and are labelled as such rather than being interpolated into a trend. National births detail. Sources: Census Bureau, 2024; County Business Patterns, 2023; CMS Care Compare, 2024.

Every county

**All 3 counties in Delaware.** Sorted by births. Copy it into a spreadsheet, it is a real table.
County	Population 2024	Births 2024	Lawyer offices	Births per office	Delivering hospitals	Status unknown
New Castle County	588,093	5,904	341	17.3	2	1
Sussex County	271,134	2,398	52	46.1	3	0
Kent County	192,690	2,135	36	59.3	1	0

Hospitals with obstetric services

**7 Delaware hospitals reporting an obstetric service status.** Facilities confirming they do not provide labour and delivery are excluded from this table and counted on the national page.
Hospital	City	County	Ownership	Labour & delivery	Birthing Friendly
Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus	Milford	Sussex	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated
Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus	Dover	Kent	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated
Beebe Medical Center	Lewes	Sussex	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated
Christiana Hospital	Newark	New Castle	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated
Nemours Children'S Hospital, Delaware	Wilmington	New Castle	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Not reported	,
St Francis Hospital	Wilmington	New Castle	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated
Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.	Seaford	Sussex	Voluntary non-profit - Private	Yes	Designated

Birthing Friendly is a CMS designation reflecting a hospital's attestation to participating in a perinatal quality improvement collaborative and implementing recommended safety practices. It records reported structure and participation. It is not an outcome measure, and CMS published no obstetric outcome scores at all for 2024, see the blackout.

Clinical measures and legal measures are never joined on this site. Adverse-event rates describe medicine; litigation describes a legal process. Where both appear together it is to describe a market, not to suggest that one predicts the other.

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau: County Population Totals and Components of Change, 2024: births by county, 2021–2024
U.S. Census Bureau: County Business Patterns, 2023: NAICS 541110, Offices of Lawyers; establishment counts by county
CMS Care Compare: Maternal Health · Hospital: PC-02, PC-07a, PC-07b, SM-7; 2024 reporting period
CMS Care Compare: Hospital General Information: ownership, facility type, Birthing Friendly designation
U.S. Census Bureau: Cartographic Boundary Files, 2023 (1:20,000,000): county and state polygons; projected to Albers equal-area at build time

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Birth Injury Marketing. “Delaware: births, delivery capacity and legal capacity.” 25 August 2026. https://birthinjurymarketing.com/intelligence/delaware/

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Authorship & review

Author: Kevin Schwaner, Founder; Chief Marketing Officer. Credentials.
Last reviewed: 25 August 2026
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