The county does not have a shortage area designation. The unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate was 1.2. The unemployment, poverty and high school dropout rates were much lower than the State rates. The above categories are not mutually exclusive.
People frequently rotate on and off different types of insurance as life factors change.
In Hendricks County, there were 32 unintentional injury deaths in 1997. There was 1 homicide in the county and another 13 intentional injury deaths by suicide. Eleven people died of Alzheimer's. Nearly one-third of Indiana residents were considered obese. After age 45, obese respondents were much more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than those who were not obese.