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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-GREENCASTLE-IN · Greencastle, IN 9,863 pop · income 26th pct · 9 tracts
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 Greencastle
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Greencastle on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Liverpool · lowest
37,262
East Liverpool · lowest
37,262 median HH income
22.6% of the leader · rank #1
Greencastle · this city
54,217
Greencastle · this city
54,217 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #2
Paris · near
54,219
Paris · near
54,219 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #3
Capron · near
54,219
Capron · near
54,219 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #4
Arpin · near
54,219
Arpin · near
54,219 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #5
Scott · near
54,220
Scott · near
54,220 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #6
Succasunna · highest
164,555
Succasunna · highest
164,555 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Greencastle on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 9,863.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Greencastle lands in the 26th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
26th
percentile, household income
28th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Greencastle, IN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,863 residents in Greencastle, a small town within Indiana. Median household income here is $54,217 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.1%. Home values in Greencastle run a median of $154,000, and the median resident age is 28.7 years. Educational attainment runs 25.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 56 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 46% from five years earlier. The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 50.5°F with 46.1 inches of precipitation per year and 22.1 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Indiana run below the national norm: the state registers 93.3 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,096 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Indiana's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 45.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Greencastle'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 within-city variation to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Greencastle, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside Greencastle?
PlainCities matches 9 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Is Greencastle growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +97 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 56 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
How far does income reach against housing in Greencastle?
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 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Greencastle?
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.
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Decatur (9,769 residents, $58,867 income); Columbia City (9,975 residents, $65,000 income); McCordsville (9,700 residents, $113,495 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jesup, GA (9,863 residents); Peru, IL (9,863 residents); Ingleside, TX (9,861 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Greencastle?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 50.5°F, with 46.1 inches of precipitation and 22.1 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Indiana is 45.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
45.5
Annual precipitation
46.1 in
Mean temperature
50.5°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Greencastle?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
66.7%
Work from home
11.0%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,810 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Greencastle?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 25.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
6.1%
Bachelor's degree+
25.8%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 6.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
C-
City profile score · Greencastle, IN
50/100
4 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.
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
6.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
25.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$54,217
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Greencastle profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 51/100 (C-) · 25.8%
Household income: 26/100 (F) · $54,217
How does Greencastle compare to other US cities?
Where Greencastle sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income26% higher than other cities
Home value28% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Greencastle 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 Greencastle near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Greencastle ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Greencastle only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#519 of 766
32nd percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#307 of 771
60th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#450 of 849
47th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#188 of 850
78th 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
26th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Greencastle's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$154,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 72% 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
Greencastle's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,809 of 15,516
More affordable than 63% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,020 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Greencastle sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,809 of 15,516 and #5,020 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$54,217Greencastle, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Greencastle, 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 Greencastle, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,863
Median Income
$54,217
Median Home Value
$154,000
Median Age
28.7
Poverty Rate
6.1%
Labor force participation
58.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.8%
Climate
Avg Temperature
50.5°F
Annual Precipitation
46.1"
Annual Snowfall
22.1"
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Greencastle's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,827 residents
2021
9,875 residents
2022
9,874 residents
2023
9,863 residents
2024
9,871 residents
2025
9,924 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
56
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
51
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
104
12
92
$9.4M
2020
27
27
0
$5.9M
2021
19
17
2
$4.7M
2022
2
2
0
$0.2M
2023
4
2
2
$0.9M
2024
56
5
51
$9.0M
Permit volume decreased 46% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.7%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
13.4%
Work from Home
11.0%
Other
0.7%
Based on 4,810 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 Greencastle. 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 Greencastle 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 Greencastle sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Greencastle 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.