The county has a partial medical shortage area designation. 25 Unemployment, poverty and high school dropout rates were higher in Madison County than the State as a whole. The unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate was 2.4 for the county, with a State rate of 2.5. The above categories are not mutually exclusive.
People frequently rotate on and off different types of insurance as life factors change.
Twenty-seven people died from 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. Three percent of the binge and chronic drinkers reported having driven after having too much to drink. 18 Forty percent of the births to women of all ages in Madison County were to unmarried women.