Circ Rates by Region

[Elvish]

I just happened across this article while diddling around online. I'm not posting it to start 'the debate', but rather to see if what's posted here holds with what you see at your place of work.

By region of the US, the avg circ rates are

West - 31%

South - 56%

Northeast - 65%

Midwest - 75%

There wasn't any definition as to what states are included in which region, so I'm unsure how it was divided up.

Here's the link to the article.

P.S. To answer my own question, I'm in the South, and that number is about right for the hospital where I work.

[Anagray, BSN]

I am so glad to see that things have changed so much since I had my child. My son is 9 now and when he was born, he was the only child in the nursery not circumcised.

[scattycarrot, BSN, RN]

I am expecting my first child, a boy, and had no idea that circumsion was prevelant in the US until I got pregnant. I am english and my husband is American and not circumicised. Anyway, I asked the hospital where I am delivering what their circ rate is and its 77%. This is in Madison, WI and the nurse I asked said that in most of the mid-west and north-east, the rate is higher. Madison had a large immigrant population which brings the rate down somewhat. As per the other posters, the south tends to be lower because of the larger hispanic population. So, its definitlely demographic. By the by, muslims tend to Circ as newborns.