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Place dossier plate
SheetIN-YORKTOWN-IN · Yorktown, IN 11,617 pop · income 63rd 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 Yorktown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Yorktown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Washington · lowest
50,000
Washington · lowest
50,000 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #1
Inez · near
81,760
Inez · near
81,760 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #2
Yorktown · this city
81,765
Yorktown · this city
81,765 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #3
Enoch · near
81,767
Enoch · near
81,767 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #4
Elkhart · near
81,771
Elkhart · near
81,771 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #5
Matlock · near
81,771
Matlock · near
81,771 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #6
Miami Shores · highest
137,873
Miami Shores · highest
137,873 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 Yorktown 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: 11,617.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Yorktown - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Yorktown places in the 63rd percentile for household income and the 94th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
63rd
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
94th
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: Yorktown, IN
11,617 people live in Yorktown, Indiana - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $81,765 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Yorktown's housing stock carries a median value of $182,000, and the median resident age is 41.2 years. Educational attainment runs 36.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 42 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Low Activity). Yorktown reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 271.0 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,096 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Indiana's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). Workers in Yorktown report an average commute of 22.5 minutes, with 83.6% driving alone and 5.8% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 45.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Yorktown'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 work and mobility to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Yorktown, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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 Yorktown?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 271.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 88% 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 journey to work look like in Yorktown?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.5 minutes.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Yorktown?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Yorktown?
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 Greensburg (11,585 residents, $63,235 income); Martinsville (11,913 residents, $56,186 income); Whitestown (11,276 residents, $118,884 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Alum Rock, CA (11,619 residents); Bucyrus, OH (11,619 residents); Spring Lake, NC (11,613 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Yorktown?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 36.4% 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
3.1%
Bachelor's degree+
36.4%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Yorktown growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +407 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 42 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
11,540
2025 estimate
11,947
Period change
+3.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
B
City profile score · Yorktown, 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.
Violent crime A-
51 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
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.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$81,765
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Yorktown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 84/100 (A-) · 51 /100k
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.4%
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,765
Where Yorktown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Yorktown'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 - Yorktown highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Yorktown, IN (this city): home $182,000, crime 271/100k
Bucyrus, OH : home $122,000, crime 1,488/100k
Spring Lake, NC : home $101,300, crime 3,918/100k
Plano, IL : home $221,100, crime 641/100k
Miami Shores, FL : home $788,600, crime 3,939/100k
Bethel, CT : home $377,500, crime 539/100k
Greensburg, IN : home $181,000, crime 1,608/100k
Whitestown, IN : home $343,900, crime 1,518/100k
Danville, IN : home $269,400, crime 812/100k
Washington, IN : home $130,700, crime 742/100k
How does Yorktown compare to other US cities?
Yorktown measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety94% 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, Yorktown ranks #8 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 Yorktown 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 Yorktown near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Yorktown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Yorktown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#168 of 766
78th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#217 of 771
72nd percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#570 of 849
33rd percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#95 of 850
89th 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
63rd percentile nationally for median household income · 94th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Yorktown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Yorktown'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 Yorktown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$182,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Yorktown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,589 of 15,516
More affordable than 83% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#161 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Yorktown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,589 of 15,516 and #161 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
$81,765Yorktown, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Yorktown, 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 Yorktown, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,617
Median Income
$81,765
Median Home Value
$182,000
Median Age
41.2
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
65.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
271.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
50.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
220.2
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Yorktown's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,540 residents
2021
11,618 residents
2022
11,683 residents
2023
11,725 residents
2024
11,852 residents
2025
11,947 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
42
housing units authorized
Single-Family
42
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
43
43
0
$12.2M
2021
38
30
8
$14.2M
2022
29
29
0
$8.4M
2023
42
42
0
$21.7M
2024
42
42
0
$20.3M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.5 minutes
Drive Alone
83.6%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
5.8%
Other
1.5%
Based on 5,738 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 Yorktown. 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 Yorktown 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 Yorktown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Yorktown 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.