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SheetIN-BROWNSBURG-IN · Brownsburg, IN 30,310 pop · income 81st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Brownsburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Brownsburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Morgantown · lowest
42,245
Morgantown · lowest
42,245 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #1
Orchard Grass… · near
105,417
Orchard Grass… · near
105,417 median HH income
43.7% of the leader · rank #2
Chase · near
105,417
Chase · near
105,417 median HH income
43.7% of the leader · rank #3
Crystal Lake · near
105,428
Crystal Lake · near
105,428 median HH income
43.7% of the leader · rank #4
Hanover · near
105,429
Hanover · near
105,429 median HH income
43.7% of the leader · rank #5
Brownsburg · this city
105,435
Brownsburg · this city
105,435 median HH income
43.7% of the leader · rank #6
Saratoga · highest
241,348
Saratoga · highest
241,348 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Brownsburg on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 30,310.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Brownsburg - the verdict
Nationally, Brownsburg sits in the 81st percentile for household income and the 78th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
78th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Brownsburg, IN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 30,310 residents in Brownsburg, a small city within Indiana. The typical household in Brownsburg brings in $105,435 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Brownsburg's housing stock carries a median value of $282,800, and the median resident age is 36.2 years. Educational attainment runs 46.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 329 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 61% from five years earlier. Brownsburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 662.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Indiana run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Indiana scores 93.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,096 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Indiana's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). Commute times here average 20.0 minutes, with 78.0% driving alone and 13.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 45.5 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Brownsburg's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Brownsburg, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Brownsburg?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Brownsburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.0 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What does the education layer cover for Brownsburg?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 46.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Brownsburg?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Granger (30,279 residents, $117,348 income); Hobart (29,646 residents, $71,680 income); Schererville (29,627 residents, $86,020 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Newark, DE (30,309 residents); Saratoga, CA (30,335 residents); North Tonawanda, NY (30,338 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Brownsburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 662.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 71% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
662.8
Violent rate
63.0
Property rate
599.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Brownsburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,905 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +16.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 329 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
29,184
2025 estimate
34,089
Period change
+16.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
B+
City profile score · Brownsburg, IN
75/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
46.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A-
63 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B+
$105,435
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living B
93.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Brownsburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 46.9%
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 63 /100k
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $105,435
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Where Brownsburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Brownsburg's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Brownsburg highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Brownsburg, IN (this city): home $282,800, crime 663/100k
Newark, DE : home $357,600, crime 2,308/100k
Saratoga, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 689/100k
North Tonawanda, NY : home $184,900, crime 1,241/100k
Morgantown, WV : home $238,200, crime 2,170/100k
Niles, IL : home $350,900, crime 2,278/100k
Chamblee, GA : home $407,900, crime 4,179/100k
Hobart, IN : home $203,400, crime 2,423/100k
Schererville, IN : home $294,600, crime 1,389/100k
Zionsville, IN : home $543,800, crime 299/100k
Michigan City, IN : home $129,000, crime 2,406/100k
Marion, IN : home $83,200, crime 1,212/100k
How does Brownsburg compare to other US cities?
Brownsburg measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety78% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Indiana alone, Brownsburg ranks #30 of 110 Indiana cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Brownsburg against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Indiana only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Indiana-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Brownsburg near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Brownsburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Brownsburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#70 of 766
91st percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#57 of 771
93rd percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#482 of 849
43rd percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#52 of 850
94th percentile in Indiana
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Indiana only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
81st percentile nationally for median household income · 78th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Brownsburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Brownsburg's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Brownsburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$282,80038th percentilemore affordable than 38% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Brownsburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,935 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#528 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Brownsburg sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,935 of 15,516 and #528 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$105,435Brownsburg, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Brownsburg, IN median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Brownsburg, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,310
Median Income
$105,435
Median Home Value
$282,800
Median Age
36.2
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
72.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
46.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
662.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
63.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
599.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Brownsburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
29,184 residents
2021
30,169 residents
2022
31,289 residents
2023
32,244 residents
2024
33,309 residents
2025
34,089 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
329
housing units authorized
Single-Family
329
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
204
166
38
$47.4M
2020
360
348
12
$93.7M
2021
443
443
0
$128.6M
2022
361
349
12
$111.6M
2023
416
314
102
$124.7M
2024
329
329
0
$133.7M
Permit volume increased 61% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.0 minutes
Drive Alone
78.0%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
13.9%
Other
0.7%
Based on 16,110 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Indiana statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $235
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Indiana at $235 (electricity about $110 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Indiana statewide averages, not a meter reading for Brownsburg. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Indiana's BEA cost-of-living index is 93.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Brownsburg is $1,096/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Indiana statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 45.5 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Indiana statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Brownsburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Brownsburg compares to similar-size Indiana cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.