Teen Pregnancy Statistics
The pregnancy rate among 15-17 year-old girls in Harrisonburg is DOUBLE Virginia’s state rate.
1 in 5 area youth have had sex before age 15.
33% of relationships in which there is a 3+ year age difference include sex.
1 in 4 teens who are sexually active get a sexually transmitted infection.
4 in 10 teenage girls in the United States get pregnant before the age of 20.
1 in 5 Americans over the age of 12 has genital herpes.
5 in 10 of all new HIV infections are among young people aged 15-24. That’s 7,000 new people every day.
Additional Statistics:Local Pregnancy Data - Part 1
Local Pregnancy Data - Part 2
2006 Pregnancy Data
2006 Pregnancy Data by Race
CDC Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease
CLIKS Data