The county has a special low-income population medical shortage designation. The high school dropout rate was much lower in LaPorte County than the State as a whole. The unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate was 2.6. The above categories are not mutually exclusive.
People frequently rotate on and off different types of insurance as life factors change.
980 Injuries were the leading cause of death for Indiana residents 1-4 years of age, regardless of race. 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. The infant mortality rate for LaPorte County cannot be compared to the State or National rates because the number of births within the county was so low.