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SheetIN-LAKES-OF-THE-FOUR-SEASONS-IN · Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN 7,338 pop · income 86th 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lakes of the Four Seasons on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Scottsburg · lowest
38,027
Scottsburg · lowest
38,027 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #1
Lakes of the… · this city
116,778
Lakes of the… · this city
116,778 median HH income
90.5% of the leader · rank #2
Elmsford · near
116,779
Elmsford · near
116,779 median HH income
90.5% of the leader · rank #3
Delaware Park · near
116,782
Delaware Park · near
116,782 median HH income
90.5% of the leader · rank #4
Lakewood · near
116,794
Lakewood · near
116,794 median HH income
90.6% of the leader · rank #5
Clancy · near
116,800
Clancy · near
116,800 median HH income
90.6% of the leader · rank #6
Winfield · highest
128,980
Winfield · highest
128,980 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons 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: 7,338.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lakes of the Four Seasons places in the 86th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
86th
percentile, household income
65th
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: Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,338 residents in Lakes of the Four Seasons, a small town within Indiana. Lakes of the Four Seasons households earn a median of $116,778 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Home values in Lakes of the Four Seasons run a median of $300,500, and the median resident age is 41.4 years. Educational attainment runs 35.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $235 across Indiana, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lakes of the Four Seasons, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Lakes of the Four Seasons?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, 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 does the journey to work look like in Lakes of the Four Seasons?
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 83.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lakes of the Four Seasons?
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Scottsburg (7,338 residents, $38,027 income); North Vernon (7,214 residents, $48,235 income); Tell City (7,490 residents, $50,702 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Noble, OK (7,337 residents); Highlands, TX (7,339 residents); Dunbar, WV (7,340 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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
B+
City profile score · Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN
76/100
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.
Household income A-
$116,778
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Lakes of the Four Seasons profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,778
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.6%
How does Lakes of the Four Seasons compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lakes of the Four Seasons stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value65% 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lakes of the Four Seasons ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lakes of the Four Seasons only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#46 of 766
94th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#45 of 771
94th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#557 of 849
34th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#98 of 850
88th 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lakes of the Four Seasons's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$300,50035th percentilemore affordable than 35% 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
Lakes of the Four Seasons's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,377 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,915 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Lakes of the Four Seasons sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,377 of 15,516 and #3,915 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
$116,778Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lakes of the Four Seasons, 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,338
Median Income
$116,778
Median Home Value
$300,500
Median Age
41.4
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
64.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.6%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
1.7%
Based on 3,702 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons. 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons 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 Lakes of the Four Seasons sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lakes of the Four Seasons 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, 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.