The county does not have a shortage area designation. The county unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate remained at 2.5. The high school dropout rate was higher than the State rate. The above categories are not mutually exclusive.
People frequently rotate on and off different types of insurance as life factors change.
385 Injuries were the leading cause of death for Indiana residents 1-4 years of age, regardless of race. In Montgomery County, there were 9 unintentional injury deaths in 1997. There were no homicides in the county, with 6 intentional injury deaths by suicide. Five people died from Alzheimer's. Nearly one-third of Indiana residents were considered obese.