This article examines variations in the pattern of fertility experienced in urban and rural areas in Ukraine. In different periods these variations were caused by women in different ages. In the 1970s, primarily impact on rural-urban fertility difference was created by women over 30: age-specific fertility rates for rural women were much higher than in urban area. In 2012, the fertility rates for women aged 30–49 residing in cities were little different from rural, but variation in the respective indicators for young women in different local areas, by contrast, was more significant. As a result of fertility is lower in urban than in rural areas. Trends which are generated in large cities gradually spread to towns and rural areas. One of the main characteristics of fertility in Ukraine is maternity ageing, when women having their children later in life. The higher growth of maternity ageing in urban than rural areas provoked that in cities fertility rate for women aged 25–29 exceed indicator for women aged 20–24; at the same time in towns and rural settlements highest fertility rate was observed among women aged 20–24.