Out-of-Hospital Births on the Rise in California

About 1.3% of California births took place at home or in a free-standing birth center in 2020, more than double the proportion seen in 2007.

NOTES: Data for 2021 is through July. Not shown are a relatively tiny number of births that happen in a doctor's clinic or in an "other/unknown" location.

CREDIT: Phillip Reese for KHN
SOURCE: California Department of Public Health; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Embed