The purpose of this profile for Jay County is to give you a starting point for thinking about community health problems and solutions. The profile is not intended to be used to make direct comparisons or conclusions because of differences in the sampling of populations and the methods used to collect data. For example, the State and County immunization rates are determined using only public health department data, whereas the US rates are determined using a statistically significant sampling survey by the Centers for Disease Control.
Jay County is classified as rural.
The county is not designated as a medical shortage area. The leading county employment categories are manufacturing, government and retail trade. 25 Unemployment rates were higher in Jay County than the State as a whole. The unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate was 4.0.