The leading county employment categories are manufacturing, retail trade and government. The unemployment rate above is a 1998 12-month average. The July 1999 unemployment rate was 1.9. 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 Hancock County, there were 16 unintentional injury deaths in 1997. There were no homicides in the county, with 8 intentional injury deaths by suicide. Ten 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.