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Indiana Natality Report - 2009
Table 34. Live Births and Crude Birth Rates by City of Residence and Race of Mother:
Selected Indiana Cities*, 2009

City Live Births Population
All Races
Crude Rate**
All Races
All Races White Black Other
Anderson
958
810
123
25
57,189
16.8
Bloomington
1,153
984
66
103
71,939
16.0
Carmel
798
680
21
97
69,547
11.5
Columbus
891
774
17
100
40,308
22.1
East Chicago
569
201
258
110
29,900
19.0
Elkhart
1,579
1,296
214
69
53,060
29.8
Evansville
2,339
1,955
279
105
116,584
20.1
Fishers
1,198
1,064
55
79
71,052
16.9
Fort Wayne
4,830
3,517
867
446
255,890
18.9
Gary
1,454
212
1,217
25
95,707
15.2
Goshen
921
884
7
30
32,425
28.4
Greenwood
1,143
1,064
15
64
48,320
23.7
Hammond
1,130
734
301
95
76,545
14.8
Hobart
414
369
28
17
27,793
14.9
Indianapolis
14,957
9,767
4,331
859
807,584
18.5
Jeffersonville
643
522
91
30
32,981
19.5
Kokomo
902
799
87
16
45,396
19.9
Lafayette
1,528
1,196
112
220
65,704
23.3
Marion
557
476
73
8
30,418
18.3
Merrillville
520
284
203
33
33,416
15.6
Michigan City
580
404
164
12
32,410
17.9
Mishawaka
754
631
94
29
50,126
15.0
Muncie
1,057
905
136
16
67,791
15.6
New Albany
626
498
84
44
37,517
16.7
Noblesville
1,071
992
36
43
42,935
24.9
Portage
482
412
49
21
37,322
12.9
Richmond
609
511
55
43
36,569
16.7
South Bend
2,154
1,465
571
118
104,215
20.7
Terre Haute
1,124
1,020
82
22
59,900
18.8
Valparaiso
802
758
21
23
30,622
26.2
West Lafayette
611
432
22
157
31,530
19.4
Total of Large Cities
48,354
35,616
9,679
3,059
2,592,695
18.7


Summary of Population Groups

Total of Large Cities
48,354
35,616
9,679
3,059
2,592,695
18.7
Balance of State
37,772
36,054
530
1,188
3,830,418
9.9
Total Indiana
86,126
71,670
10,209
4,247
6,423,113
13.4

SOURCE: Indiana State Department of Health, Epidemiology Resource Center, Data Analysis Team.
*Cities with populations over 25,000 per the 2000 Census.
**Crude rate is per 1,000 population. See Appendix Table B4 for population counts.
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This table was run on June 1, 2012.

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