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Percentage of Births to Moms with Less Than a High School Education in 2005

	County	All	White	African-American and Other
1	Calhoun	15.0	11.4	18.2
2	Richland	16.1	11.0	20.0
3	Dorchester	17.2	16.2	19.4
4	McCormick	18.2	10.0	23.4
5	Berkeley	19.2	19.1	19.4
6	York	19.8	19.4	20.8
7	Lexington	20.1	18.8	24.8
8	Florence	21.3	14.1	27.9
9	Abbeville	21.6	19.2	26.4
10	Beaufort	21.7	22.8	19.2
11	Sumter	21.9	15.5	28.0
12	Kershaw	21.9	19.9	26.7
13	Georgetown	21.9	18.9	26.1
14	Charleston	21.9	17.1	29.1
15	Pickens	23.5	23.2	27.9
16	Edgefield	23.9	19.1	29.3
17	Anderson	24.3	22.3	32.6
18	Clarendon	24.3	18.4	26.2
19	Aiken	24.8	23.2	27.5
20	Hampton	24.9	26.8	23.8
21	Greenville	24.9	24.1	27.6
22	Orangeburg	25.0	26.7	24.3
23	Oconee	25.4	25.2	27.4
24	Bamberg	25.7	19.2	28.1
25	Horry	25.7	24.7	28.8
26	Marion	26.3	22.6	27.8
27	Fairfield	26.5	20.4	29.4
28	Colleton	27.4	28.4	26.3
29	Darlington	27.7	22.4	33.4
30	Spartanburg	27.8	25.8	33.7
31	Chesterfield	28.7	23.9	35.5
32	Williamsburg	29.3	23.9	31.1
33	Greenwood	29.3	27.7	32.0
34	Barnwell	29.9	28.1	31.5
35	Lancaster	29.9	28.7	32.3
36	Chester	30.8	31.6	29.7
37	Newberry	31.4	29.1	35.5
38	Lee	31.6	25.0	33.5
39	Laurens	32.3	33.1	30.6
40	Union	32.5	33.3	30.8
41	Cherokee	33.8	32.8	36.5
42	Dillon	34.7	33.8	35.4
43	Marlboro	35.8	32.3	37.8
44	Jasper	37.1	47.0	24.1
45	Allendale	38.5	37.0	38.8
46	Saluda	41.3	46.5	27.8
	South Carolina	23.7	22.0	26.8

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.