Race/ethnicity, poverty, and location are relevant to  birth rates among girls age 15 to 17.

• Among King County Latinas, teen births declined from 2001 to 2010, echoing a trend that occurred  10 years earlier in other racial/ethnic groups.
• Still, the teen birth rate for Latinas was 6 times the rate for Asians/Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders.
• Teens in high-poverty neighborhoods were over 6 times more likely to give birth than those in low-poverty neighborhoods.
• The highest teen birth rates were clustered in South Region.
• Nationally and internationally, income inequality is related to higher teen birth rates (data not shown).  

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