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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-GREENWOOD-IN · Greenwood, IN 64,237 pop · income 60th pct · 28 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 Greenwood
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Greenwood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gary · lowest
37,380
Gary · lowest
37,380 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #1
Phoenix Lake · near
78,750
Phoenix Lake · near
78,750 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #2
Kurtistown · near
78,750
Kurtistown · near
78,750 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #3
De Witt · near
78,750
De Witt · near
78,750 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #4
Greenwood · this city
78,765
Greenwood · this city
78,765 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #5
Mesa · near
78,779
Mesa · near
78,779 median HH income
56.0% of the leader · rank #6
Laguna Niguel · highest
140,605
Laguna Niguel · highest
140,605 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 Greenwood 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: 64,237.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Greenwood - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Greenwood places in the 60th percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
42nd
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: Greenwood, IN
64,237 people live in Greenwood, Indiana - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Greenwood report a median income of $78,765 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Greenwood's housing stock carries a median value of $248,700, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. 31.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 358 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 24% from five years earlier. Greenwood reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1638.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,096 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Indiana run around $235, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 45.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Greenwood'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 population change to housing and income to schools and households to work and mobility to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Greenwood, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Greenwood growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,380 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 358 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Greenwood?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What can 28 Census tracts reveal inside Greenwood?
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.
PlainCities matches 28 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Greenwood?
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Muncie (64,739 residents, $43,395 income); Gary (68,604 residents, $37,380 income); Kokomo (59,375 residents, $54,195 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Burnsville, MN (64,295 residents); Rowlett, TX (64,139 residents); Bellevue, NE (64,355 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.
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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Greenwood?
The NCES join finds 16 public schools within the city match. 31.0% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
16
Bachelor's degree+
31.0%
Poverty estimate
5.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Greenwood?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
11.5%
Drive alone
78.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 32,643 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Greenwood?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1638.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 28% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1529.4
Violent rate
108.8
Total reported rate
1638.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 5.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
C+
City profile score · Greenwood, IN
64/100
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.
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.
Violent crime B-
109 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$78,765
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Greenwood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Violent crime: 69/100 (B-) · 109 /100k
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.0%
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,765
Where Greenwood sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Greenwood'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 - Greenwood highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Greenwood, IN (this city): home $248,700, crime 1,638/100k
Burnsville, MN : home $335,100, crime 2,098/100k
Rowlett, TX : home $342,400, crime 1,457/100k
Bellevue, NE : home $230,800, crime 1,231/100k
Utica, NY : home $133,400, crime 3,477/100k
Laguna Niguel, CA : home $1,123,000, crime 1,031/100k
South San Francisco, CA : home $1,160,100, crime 1,859/100k
Muncie, IN : home $92,000, crime 2,860/100k
Kokomo, IN : home $126,500, crime 1,902/100k
Terre Haute, IN : home $109,500, crime 3,977/100k
Lafayette, IN : home $157,600, crime 2,642/100k
Noblesville, IN : home $321,800, crime 622/100k
How does Greenwood compare to other US cities?
Here's how Greenwood stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety42% 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, Greenwood ranks #74 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Greenwood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Greenwood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#181 of 766
76th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#89 of 771
88th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#482 of 849
43rd percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#136 of 850
84th 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Greenwood's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Greenwood'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 Greenwood's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$248,70044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
Greenwood's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,473 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#140 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.2×, Greenwood sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,473 of 15,516 and #140 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$78,765Greenwood, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Greenwood, 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 Greenwood, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
64,237
Median Income
$78,765
Median Home Value
$248,700
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
65.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1638.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
108.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1529.4
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
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Greenwood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
63,969 residents
2021
64,819 residents
2022
65,387 residents
2023
66,515 residents
2024
68,334 residents
2025
69,349 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
358
housing units authorized
Single-Family
358
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
288
270
18
$71.4M
2020
475
339
136
$101.8M
2021
590
260
330
$118.6M
2022
444
226
218
$90.3M
2023
836
202
634
$187.7M
2024
358
358
0
$131.4M
Permit volume increased 24% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.8%
Carpool
7.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
11.5%
Other
1.3%
Based on 32,643 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 Greenwood. 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Greenwood 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.