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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-WESTFIELD-IN · Westfield, IN 51,109 pop · income 87th 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 Westfield
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Westfield on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Anderson · lowest
47,221
Anderson · lowest
47,221 median HH income
35.2% of the leader · rank #1
Wheaton · near
119,566
Wheaton · near
119,566 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #2
Daly City · near
119,570
Daly City · near
119,570 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #3
Parole · near
119,591
Parole · near
119,591 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #4
Westfield · this city
119,598
Westfield · this city
119,598 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #5
Lake Holm · near
119,608
Lake Holm · near
119,608 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #6
Collierville · highest
134,319
Collierville · highest
134,319 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 Westfield 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: 51,109.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Westfield - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Westfield lands in the 87th percentile for household income and the 77th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
87th
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
77th
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: Westfield, IN
Westfield is a small city in Indiana, home to 51,109 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Westfield report a median income of $119,598 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. Westfield's housing stock carries a median value of $391,900, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. Educational attainment runs 60.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1,674 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 61% from five years earlier. Westfield reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 685.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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. 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 Westfield'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Westfield, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Westfield?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Westfield?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 685.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 70% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Westfield?
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 Columbus (51,104 residents, $76,856 income); Mishawaka (50,907 residents, $53,120 income); Jeffersonville (50,176 residents, $70,157 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Troy, NY (51,054 residents); Hoffman Estates, IL (51,186 residents); Wake Forest, NC (51,199 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.
Is Westfield growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +19,239 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +40.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,674 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.
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 Westfield?
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.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 60.3% 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.
Poverty estimate
2.9%
Bachelor's degree+
60.3%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Westfield?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.8%. 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.
Drive alone
70.8%
Work from home
19.1%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 27,243 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
A-
City profile score · Westfield, IN
83/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
60.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$119,598
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A
42 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
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.
Westfield profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.3%
Household income: 86/100 (A) · $119,598
Violent crime: 86/100 (A) · 42 /100k
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Where Westfield sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Westfield'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 - Westfield highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Westfield, IN (this city): home $391,900, crime 686/100k
Troy, NY : home $192,500, crime 3,244/100k
Hoffman Estates, IL : home $340,400, crime 1,142/100k
Wake Forest, NC : home $435,000, crime 1,452/100k
Collierville, TN : home $458,300, crime 1,419/100k
Columbus, IN : home $231,000, crime 96/100k
Mishawaka, IN : home $140,600, crime 2,806/100k
Jeffersonville, IN : home $208,500, crime 1,988/100k
Lawrence, IN : home $220,400, crime 2,020/100k
Elkhart, IN : home $126,900, crime 3,595/100k
Anderson, IN : home $104,300, crime 2,676/100k
How does Westfield compare to other US cities?
Here's how Westfield stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety77% 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: Westfield ranks #33 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 Westfield 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 Westfield near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Westfield ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Westfield only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#40 of 766
95th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#22 of 771
97th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#576 of 849
32nd percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#19 of 850
98th 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income · 77th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Westfield's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Westfield'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 Westfield's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$391,90023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
Westfield's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,009 of 15,516
More affordable than 48% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#162 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Westfield sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,009 of 15,516 and #162 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
$119,598Westfield, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Westfield, 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 Westfield, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
51,109
Median Income
$119,598
Median Home Value
$391,900
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
72.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
685.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
42.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
643.5
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
Westfield's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
47,019 residents
2021
50,718 residents
2022
54,676 residents
2023
57,774 residents
2024
62,917 residents
2025
66,258 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,674
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,560
detached homes
Multifamily
114
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
32.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,038
752
286
$297.1M
2020
1,580
1,010
570
$371.6M
2021
1,853
1,418
435
$582.1M
2022
1,792
1,306
486
$545.1M
2023
2,476
1,493
983
$645.8M
2024
1,674
1,560
114
$597.4M
Permit volume increased 61% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.8%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
19.1%
Other
1.2%
Based on 27,243 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 Westfield. 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 Westfield 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 Westfield sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Westfield 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.