Table 28 Births and Crude Birth Rates by Race of Mother: Indiana Counties, 1999
COUNTY	BIRTHS				CRUDE RATES**
	Total	Race			Total	Race
		White	Black	Other		White	Black	Other
Adams	537	535	0	2	16.2	16.2	0.0*	11.8*
Allen	5,079	4,216	722	141	16.0	15.3	19.7	27.1
Bartholomew	1,076	1,011	12	53	15.4	15.0	9.2*	47.3
Benton	125	124	0	1	12.8	12.7	0.0*	50.0*
Blackford	199	196	1	2	14.3	14.2	100.0*	28.6*
Boone	614	605	1	8	13.7	13.6	8.3*	27.6*
Brown	170	169	0	1	10.6	10.7	0.0*	10.0*
Carroll	261	258	1	2	13.1	12.9	33.3*	66.7*
Cass	575	568	1	6	14.8	14.8	2.7*	18.2*
Clark	1,323	1,216	94	13	13.9	13.8	15.9	15.5*
Clay	343	340	2	1	12.8	12.7	13.3*	14.3*
Clinton	497	489	1	7	15.1	14.9	10.0*	46.7*
Crawford	140	140	0	0	13.0	13.1	0.0*	0.0*
Daviess	463	458	2	3	15.9	15.9	14.3*	50.0*
Dearborn	436	425	8	3	9.1	9.0	21.6*	13.0*
Decatur	400	397	0	3	15.6	15.6	0.0*	13.0*
DeKalb	556	549	0	7	14.0	14.0	0.0*	25.9*
Delaware	1,423	1,278	131	14	12.3	12.0	16.3	11.7*
Dubois	558	556	0	2	13.9	13.9	0.0*	15.4*
Elkhart	3,134	2,885	211	38	17.9	17.7	23.2	17.0
Fayette	285	280	4	1	11.0	11.1	8.0*	7.1*
Floyd	895	831	51	13	12.4	12.1	14.9	31.7*
Fountain	240	238	1	1	13.1	13.0	100.0*	12.5*
Franklin	183	181	1	1	8.3	8.2	50.0*	12.5*
Fulton	281	276	1	4	13.5	13.4	5.3*	28.6*
Gibson	402	385	8	9	12.5	12.3	11.1*	47.4*
Grant	866	788	70	8	12.0	12.0	12.6	8.9*
Greene	364	361	1	2	11.0	11.0	50.0*	11.1*
Hamilton	2,980	2,863	40	77	17.3	17.1	31.3	24.5
Hancock	703	697	1	5	12.6	12.6	14.3*	11.9*
Harrison	447	444	1	2	12.6	12.7	5.9*	12.5*
Hendricks	1,262	1,247	2	13	12.8	12.9	2.0*	16.0*
Henry	609	602	4	3	12.6	12.6	7.3*	15.0*
Howard	1,249	1,108	104	37	14.9	14.3	19.6	39.4
Huntington	526	521	1	4	14.1	14.1	10.0*	10.5*
Jackson	560	553	1	6	13.6	13.6	5.0*	15.0*
Jasper	427	425	0	2	14.5	14.5	0.0*	12.5*
Jay	331	331	0	0	15.3	15.4	0.0*	0.0*
Jefferson	364	357	4	3	11.4	11.5	8.5*	11.5*
Jennings	423	419	3	1	15.0	15.1	10.7*	6.7*
Johnson	1,641	1,608	7	26	14.6	14.6	6.9*	21.0
Knox	473	465	4	4	12.1	12.2	7.5*	13.8*
Kosciusko	1,134	1,120	7	7	15.9	15.9	16.3*	10.6*
LaGrange	756	753	0	3	22.2	22.4	0.0*	11.1*
Lake	7,073	4,700	2,284	89	14.7	13.5	17.9	17.2
LaPorte	1,453	1,222	211	20	13.2	12.5	18.9	21.1
Lawrence	571	564	3	4	12.5	12.4	20.0*	17.4*
Madison	1,775	1,604	157	14	13.6	13.5	14.0	14.7*
Marion	14,183	9,942	3,903	338	17.5	16.5	20.0	25.5
Marshall	680	663	3	14	14.7	14.5	25.0*	36.8*
Martin	155	154	0	1	14.9	14.9	0.0*	25.0*
Miami	431	417	8	6	12.8	13.2	7.3*	7.1*
Monroe	1,261	1,163	33	65	10.8	10.6	9.4	15.6
Montgomery	534	525	4	5	14.6	14.6	14.8*	17.9*
Morgan	985	977	0	8	14.7	14.7	0.0*	22.2*
Newton	208	206	1	1	14.0	14.0	100.0*	11.1*
Noble	725	708	5	12	16.8	16.5	71.4*	44.4*
Ohio	53	53	0	0	9.7	9.8	0.0*	0.0*
Orange	245	244	0	1	12.3	12.4	0.0*	12.5*
Owen	263	260	2	1	12.8	12.7	28.6*	10.0*
Parke	170	170	0	0	10.1	10.2	0.0*	0.0*
Perry	203	203	0	0	10.6	10.8	0.0*	0.0*
Pike	168	168	0	0	12.9	13.0	0.0*	0.0*
Porter	1,815	1,772	17	26	12.3	12.2	27.0*	13.4
Posey	289	283	5	1	11.0	10.9	14.7*	11.1*
Pulaski	194	190	2	2	14.3	14.2	18.2*	28.6*
Putnam	430	424	2	4	12.4	12.7	2.0*	11.1*
Randolph	355	353	0	2	12.9	13.0	0.0*	16.7*
Ripley	334	332	0	2	12.1	12.1	0.0*	15.4*
Rush	238	233	0	5	13.1	13.0	0.0*	45.5*
St. Joseph	3,873	3,172	618	83	15.0	14.1	21.4	17.4
Scott	306	303	1	2	13.1	13.0	50.0*	15.4*
Shelby	606	596	7	3	13.9	13.9	16.3*	9.4*
Spencer	237	237	0	0	11.2	11.3	0.0*	0.0*
Starke	297	292	2	3	12.6	12.5	25.0*	16.7*
Steuben	403	396	2	5	12.7	12.6	28.6*	17.2*
Sullivan	256	255	0	1	11.9	12.4	0.0*	10.0*
Switzerland	103	103	0	0	11.5	11.6	0.0*	0.0*
Tippecanoe	1,838	1,679	62	97	12.9	12.7	18.7	13.2
Tipton	177	177	0	0	10.6	10.7	0.0*	0.0*
Union	55	55	0	0	7.5	7.6	0.0*	0.0*
Vanderburgh	2,281	1,984	258	39	13.6	13.1	17.9	23.4
Vermillion	213	211	0	2	12.6	12.5	0.0*	25.0*
Vigo	1,300	1,186	85	29	12.5	12.4	13.3	15.1
Wabash	444	435	3	6	12.9	12.8	18.8*	13.0*
Warren	81	81	0	0	9.7	9.7	0.0*	0.0*
Warrick	599	588	6	5	11.4	11.4	11.5*	11.9*
Washington	324	322	0	2	11.5	11.5	0.0*	25.0*
Wayne	906	841	57	8	12.7	12.7	13.1	13.8*
Wells	317	315	0	2	11.8	11.8	0.0*	18.2*
White	354	346	0	8	13.9	13.6	0.0*	57.1*
Whitley	418	415	0	3	13.6	13.5	0.0*	20.0*
INDIANA	85,489	74,787	9,244	1,458	14.4	13.9	18.6	2.6
* Unstable rate, based on fewer than 20 births. ** Births per 1,000 population, see Appendix B for population counts. SOURCE: Indiana State Department of Health, Epidemiology Resource Center, Data Analysis Team