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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-MCCORDSVILLE-IN · McCordsville, IN 9,700 pop · income 85th 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 McCordsville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest McCordsville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New Square · lowest
28,880
New Square · lowest
28,880 median HH income
25.4% of the leader · rank #1
Lake in the H… · near
113,491
Lake in the H… · near
113,491 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
McCordsville · this city
113,495
McCordsville · this city
113,495 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Johnsonburg · near
113,500
Johnsonburg · near
113,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Francis · near
113,500
Francis · near
113,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
New Milford · near
113,513
New Milford · near
113,513 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Minturn · highest
113,519
Minturn · highest
113,519 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 McCordsville 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: 9,700.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
McCordsville - the verdict
McCordsville ranks in the 85th percentile for household income and the 63rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
85th
percentile, household income
69th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
63rd
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: McCordsville, IN
Indiana's McCordsville is a small town, with 9,700 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. McCordsville households earn a median of $113,495 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.7%. Typical homes in McCordsville are valued around $327,900, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. 56.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 72.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 528 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 462% from five years earlier. McCordsville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1032.1 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Indiana at 93.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). 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). 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 McCordsville'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 reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For McCordsville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in McCordsville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1032.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% 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.
What does the education layer cover for McCordsville?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 56.9% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in McCordsville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.8%. 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Which cities make useful reference points for McCordsville?
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 Decatur (9,769 residents, $58,867 income); Mooresville (9,608 residents, $70,228 income); Greencastle (9,863 residents, $54,217 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sturgeon Bay, WI (9,702 residents); Morehead City, NC (9,696 residents); Croydon, PA (9,704 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in McCordsville?
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 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$327,900
Household income
$113,495
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is McCordsville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,212 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +47.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 528 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
8,882
2025 estimate
13,094
Period change
+47.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
B+
City profile score · McCordsville, 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.
Poverty rate A+
0.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
56.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$113,495
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.
Violent crime F
270 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
McCordsville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 95/100 (A+) · 0.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 56.9%
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,495
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 270 /100k
Where McCordsville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
McCordsville'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 - McCordsville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
McCordsville, IN (this city): home $327,900, crime 1,032/100k
Sturgeon Bay, WI : home $217,600, crime 745/100k
Morehead City, NC : home $330,900, crime 3,434/100k
South Amboy, NJ : home $365,000, crime 1,531/100k
Decatur, IN : home $132,900, crime 846/100k
Columbia City, IN : home $184,300, crime 992/100k
Angola, IN : home $186,900, crime 2,350/100k
Kendallville, IN : home $130,600, crime 909/100k
How does McCordsville compare to other US cities?
Here's how McCordsville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value69% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety63% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Indiana and the picture shifts: McCordsville ranks #53 of 110 Indiana cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares McCordsville 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 McCordsville near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, McCordsville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares McCordsville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#52 of 766
93rd percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#30 of 771
96th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#631 of 849
25th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#24 of 850
97th 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income · 63rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
McCordsville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
McCordsville'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 McCordsville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$327,90031st percentilemore affordable than 31% 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
McCordsville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,053 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,201 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, McCordsville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,053 of 15,516 and #5,201 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
$113,495McCordsville, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context McCordsville, 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 McCordsville, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)56.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,700
Median Income
$113,495
Median Home Value
$327,900
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
0.7%
Labor force participation
72.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
56.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1032.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
270.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
761.8
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
McCordsville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,882 residents
2021
9,507 residents
2022
10,365 residents
2023
11,263 residents
2024
11,749 residents
2025
13,094 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
528
housing units authorized
Single-Family
528
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
54.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
94
94
0
$29.6M
2020
234
234
0
$74.8M
2021
436
436
0
$160.0M
2022
312
312
0
$130.6M
2023
153
153
0
$75.2M
2024
528
528
0
$107.0M
Permit volume increased 462% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.8%
Carpool
5.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.5%
Work from Home
26.6%
Based on 5,443 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 McCordsville. 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 McCordsville 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 McCordsville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How McCordsville 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.