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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-NOTRE-DAME-IN · Notre Dame, IN 6,754 pop · income 1st 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 Notre Dame
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Notre Dame on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hargill · lowest
19,028
Hargill · lowest
19,028 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #1
Haystack · near
19,074
Haystack · near
19,074 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #2
Juana Díaz zo… · near
19,075
Juana Díaz zo… · near
19,075 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #3
Notre Dame · this city
19,082
Notre Dame · this city
19,082 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #4
Warthen · near
19,082
Warthen · near
19,082 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #5
Prairie View · near
19,106
Prairie View · near
19,106 median HH income
16.2% of the leader · rank #6
Orland Hills · highest
118,281
Orland Hills · highest
118,281 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 Notre Dame 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: 6,754.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Notre Dame places in the 1st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
1st
percentile, household income
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: Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame is a small town in Indiana, home to 6,754 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Notre Dame brings in $19,082 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income. The median resident age is 20.2 years. Educational attainment runs 80.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 47.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Indiana run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Indiana scores 93.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,096 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Indiana's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). 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 Notre Dame'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 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 Notre Dame, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Notre Dame?
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.
Walking is the largest reported mode at 58.0%. 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 Notre Dame?
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Ross (6,740 residents, $53,824 income); Boonville (6,681 residents, $62,500 income); Batesville (6,842 residents, $66,806 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Stewartville, MN (6,754 residents); Opp, AL (6,752 residents); Orland Hills, IL (6,758 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
D
City profile score · Notre Dame, IN
49/100
3 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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
80.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income F
$19,082
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate N/A
N/A
No ACS poverty rate on file for this place.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Notre Dame profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 80.2%
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $19,082
How does Notre Dame compare to other US cities?
Notre Dame measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income1% higher 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 Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Notre Dame ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Notre Dame only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#764 of 766
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#5 of 850
99th 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
1st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$19,082Notre Dame, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Notre Dame, 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 Notre Dame, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)80.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,754
Median Income
$19,082
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
20.2
Poverty Rate
N/A
Labor force participation
47.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
80.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
10.1%
Carpool
1.6%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
58.0%
Work from Home
24.3%
Other
5.0%
Based on 3,076 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 Notre Dame. 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 Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Notre Dame 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.