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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-NEW-ALBANY-IN · New Albany, IN 37,589 pop · income 26th pct · 20 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 New Albany
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Albany on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Richmond · lowest
46,395
Richmond · lowest
46,395 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #1
New Albany · this city
54,152
New Albany · this city
54,152 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #2
West Columbia · near
54,152
West Columbia · near
54,152 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #3
Iaeger · near
54,152
Iaeger · near
54,152 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #4
Havana · near
54,153
Havana · near
54,153 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #5
Holyoke · near
54,154
Holyoke · near
54,154 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #6
Pacifica · highest
156,819
Pacifica · highest
156,819 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 New Albany 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: 37,589.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
New Albany - the verdict
Nationally, New Albany sits in the 26th percentile for household income and the 20th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
26th
percentile, household income
33rd
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
20th
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: New Albany, IN
37,589 people live in New Albany, Indiana - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in New Albany brings in $54,152 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.2%. Home values in New Albany run a median of $169,600, and the median resident age is 38.0 years. 22.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 43 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), down 2% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2687.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,096 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $235 across Indiana, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 18.1 minutes, with 77.5% driving alone and 10.3% 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 New Albany'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 population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Albany, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in New Albany?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.2%, 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.
Is New Albany growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -324 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 43 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for New Albany?
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Portage (37,951 residents, $72,833 income); Merrillville (36,343 residents, $64,791 income); Plainfield (35,783 residents, $85,074 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bartlesville, OK (37,559 residents); Monrovia, CA (37,553 residents); Carpentersville, IL (37,544 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.
What can 20 Census tracts reveal inside New Albany?
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 20 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in New Albany?
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 77.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.1 minutes.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
10.3%
Drive alone
77.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 17,533 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in New Albany?
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 2687.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2421.0
Violent rate
266.3
Total reported rate
2687.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for New Albany?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 22.8% 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.
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
10
Bachelor's degree+
22.8%
Poverty estimate
14.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 14.2% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
D
City profile score · New Albany, IN
40/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
266 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$54,152
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
New Albany profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 42/100 (D) · 22.8%
Violent crime: 38/100 (F) · 266 /100k
Household income: 26/100 (F) · $54,152
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.2%
Where New Albany sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
New Albany'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 - New Albany highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
New Albany, IN (this city): home $169,600, crime 2,687/100k
Bartlesville, OK : home $154,900, crime 2,492/100k
Monrovia, CA : home $891,700, crime 2,612/100k
Carpentersville, IL : home $225,200, crime 891/100k
Pleasant Grove, UT : home $454,300, crime 913/100k
Pacifica, CA : home $1,211,700, crime 1,451/100k
Portage, IN : home $210,800, crime 1,344/100k
Plainfield, IN : home $263,900, crime 1,694/100k
Valparaiso, IN : home $250,500, crime 874/100k
Goshen, IN : home $175,200, crime 2,696/100k
How does New Albany compare to other US cities?
New Albany measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income26% higher than other cities
Home value33% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety20% 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, New Albany ranks #98 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 New Albany 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 New Albany near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Albany ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Albany only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#523 of 766
32nd percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#260 of 771
66th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#179 of 849
79th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#232 of 850
72nd 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 · 20th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
New Albany's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
New Albany'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 New Albany's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$169,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 67% 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
New Albany's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,350 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,088 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, New Albany sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,350 of 15,516 and #1,088 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$54,152New Albany, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Albany, 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 New Albany, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
37,589
Median Income
$54,152
Median Home Value
$169,600
Median Age
38.0
Poverty Rate
14.2%
Labor force participation
57.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2687.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
266.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2421.0
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Albany's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
37,787 residents
2021
37,531 residents
2022
37,388 residents
2023
37,286 residents
2024
37,568 residents
2025
37,463 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
43
housing units authorized
Single-Family
43
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
44
44
0
$8.4M
2020
52
52
0
$9.9M
2021
57
57
0
$10.9M
2022
45
45
0
$8.6M
2023
41
41
0
$7.8M
2024
43
43
0
$8.2M
Permit volume decreased 2% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.1 minutes
Drive Alone
77.5%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
10.3%
Other
1.1%
Based on 17,533 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 New Albany. 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 New Albany 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 New Albany sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Albany 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.