Ages of first-time mothers in 1980

Age 141618202224262830323436384042442%4%6%8%

Ages of first-time mothers in 2016

Age 141618202224262830323436384042442%4%6%8%

First-time mothers are older in big cities and on the coasts, and younger in rural areas and in the Great Plains and the South. In N.Y. & San Francisco - average age is 31 and 32. In rural S.D. and TX, it’s 20 and 21 (via US birth certificates - using data from the National Center for Health Statistics).         BACK