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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-WHITESTOWN-IN · Whitestown, IN 11,276 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 Whitestown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Whitestown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Peru · lowest
46,180
Peru · lowest
46,180 median HH income
38.8% of the leader · rank #1
Halfway House · near
118,878
Halfway House · near
118,878 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Country Walk · near
118,881
Country Walk · near
118,881 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Whitestown · this city
118,884
Whitestown · this city
118,884 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Nyack · near
118,889
Nyack · near
118,889 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Kennebunkport · near
118,922
Kennebunkport · near
118,922 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Avondale Esta… · highest
118,929
Avondale Esta… · highest
118,929 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 Whitestown 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: 11,276.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Whitestown - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Whitestown places in the 87th percentile for household income and the 45th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
87th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
45th
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: Whitestown, IN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 11,276 residents in Whitestown, a small town within Indiana. Households in Whitestown report a median income of $118,884 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.8%. Home values in Whitestown run a median of $343,900, and the median resident age is 30.7 years. 60.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 82.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 470 residential building permits were authorized in Whitestown (Building Boom), up 130% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Whitestown reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1518.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 51.9°F with 41.3 inches of precipitation per year and 22.0 inches of snowfall.
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). Commute times here average 22.5 minutes, with 73.9% driving alone and 18.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Whitestown'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 climate and hazard context to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Whitestown, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 physical conditions frame life in Whitestown?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 51.9°F, with 41.3 inches of precipitation and 22.0 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Indiana is 45.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
How far does income reach against housing in Whitestown?
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 4.8%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Whitestown?
Within Indiana, the closest population matches are Danville (11,049 residents, $93,080 income); Huntertown (10,984 residents, $104,808 income); Greensburg (11,585 residents, $63,235 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Storm Lake, IA (11,275 residents); Healdsburg, CA (11,274 residents); Anderson, CA (11,282 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 the FBI record say about safety in Whitestown?
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 1518.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 33% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Whitestown?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 60.0% 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 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.
Matched public schools
2
Bachelor's degree+
60.0%
Poverty estimate
4.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Whitestown growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,384 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +51.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 470 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+51.9%
2025 estimate
15,767
2020 estimate
10,383
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Whitestown?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.5 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
18.1%
Drive alone
73.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,311 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
B
City profile score · Whitestown, IN
72/100
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+
60.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$118,884
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
206 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Whitestown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.0%
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $118,884
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.8%
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 206 /100k
Where Whitestown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Whitestown'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 - Whitestown highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Whitestown, IN (this city): home $343,900, crime 1,518/100k
Storm Lake, IA : home $163,600, crime 1,966/100k
Healdsburg, CA : home $946,900, crime 1,744/100k
Anderson, CA : home $272,000, crime 2,211/100k
Ravenna, OH : home $129,400, crime 1,914/100k
Danville, IN : home $269,400, crime 812/100k
Greensburg, IN : home $181,000, crime 1,608/100k
Yorktown, IN : home $182,000, crime 271/100k
Lowell, IN : home $236,900, crime 228/100k
How does Whitestown compare to other US cities?
Here's how Whitestown 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 value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety45% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Indiana, Whitestown ranks #71 of 110 Indiana cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Whitestown 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 Whitestown near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Whitestown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Whitestown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#41 of 766
95th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#28 of 771
96th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#499 of 849
40th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#20 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 · 45th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Whitestown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Whitestown'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 Whitestown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$343,90029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Whitestown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,075 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#751 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Whitestown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,075 of 15,516 and #751 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$118,884Whitestown, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Whitestown, 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 Whitestown, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)82.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,276
Median Income
$118,884
Median Home Value
$343,900
Median Age
30.7
Poverty Rate
4.8%
Labor force participation
82.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1518.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
205.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1312.3
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
51.9°F
Annual Precipitation
41.3"
Annual Snowfall
22.0"
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
Whitestown's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,383 residents
2021
11,146 residents
2022
12,108 residents
2023
13,122 residents
2024
14,607 residents
2025
15,767 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
470
housing units authorized
Single-Family
470
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
41.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
204
204
0
$48.2M
2020
289
271
18
$73.7M
2021
425
410
15
$117.7M
2022
402
402
0
$156.6M
2023
563
537
26
$193.1M
2024
470
470
0
$169.2M
Permit volume increased 130% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.5 minutes
Drive Alone
73.9%
Carpool
5.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
18.1%
Other
2.3%
Based on 6,311 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 Whitestown. 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 Whitestown 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 Whitestown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Whitestown 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.