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SheetIN-ZIONSVILLE-IN · Zionsville, IN 31,442 pop · income 95th pct · 11 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 Zionsville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Zionsville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
LaGrange · lowest
41,491
LaGrange · lowest
41,491 median HH income
26.1% of the leader · rank #1
La Selva Beach · near
159,094
La Selva Beach · near
159,094 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Hillandale · near
159,118
Hillandale · near
159,118 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Zionsville · this city
159,126
Zionsville · this city
159,126 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Bellmore · near
159,158
Bellmore · near
159,158 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Pelican Bay · near
159,187
Pelican Bay · near
159,187 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Bratenahl · highest
159,250
Bratenahl · highest
159,250 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 Zionsville 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: 31,442.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Zionsville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Zionsville lands in the 95th percentile for household income and the 93rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
95th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
27th
percentile, median rent
93rd
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: Zionsville, IN
31,442 people live in Zionsville, Indiana - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Zionsville brings in $159,126 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Zionsville's housing stock carries a median value of $543,800, and the median resident age is 42.6 years. 71.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 248 residential building permits were authorized in Zionsville (Construction Slowdown), down 45% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Zionsville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 298.9 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. 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 18.8 minutes, with 69.1% driving alone and 25.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Zionsville'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 population change to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Zionsville, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Zionsville?
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 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Zionsville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 298.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 87% 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 Zionsville?
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 Michigan City (31,894 residents, $52,979 income); Brownsburg (30,310 residents, $105,435 income); Granger (30,279 residents, $117,348 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are LaGrange, GA (31,479 residents); El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), CA (31,399 residents); Eagle, ID (31,490 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.
What can 11 Census tracts reveal inside Zionsville?
PlainCities matches 11 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Population change
Is Zionsville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,838 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 248 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
30,786
2025 estimate
33,624
Period change
+9.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Zionsville?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 71.0% 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.
Poverty estimate
3.6%
Bachelor's degree+
71.0%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Zionsville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.8 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. 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
69.1%
Work from home
25.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 15,571 workers age 16+.
Top-decile income · poverty 3.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Indiana average
A
City profile score · Zionsville, IN
87/100
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.
Household income A+
$159,126
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
71.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
21 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
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.
Zionsville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 99/100 (A+) · $159,126
Bachelor's+ share: 98/100 (A+) · 71.0%
Violent crime: 91/100 (A+) · 21 /100k
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Cost of living: 72/100 (B) · 93.3 index
Where Zionsville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Zionsville'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 - Zionsville highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Zionsville, IN (this city): home $543,800, crime 299/100k
LaGrange, GA : home $175,600, crime 5,111/100k
Norwood, MA : home $613,500, crime 880/100k
Shawnee, OK : home $147,800, crime 3,344/100k
Michigan City, IN : home $129,000, crime 2,406/100k
Brownsburg, IN : home $282,800, crime 663/100k
Hobart, IN : home $203,400, crime 2,423/100k
Schererville, IN : home $294,600, crime 1,389/100k
Crown Point, IN : home $272,800, crime 608/100k
How does Zionsville compare to other US cities?
Where Zionsville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income95% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent27% pricier than other cities
Safety93% 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: Zionsville ranks #10 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 Zionsville 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 Zionsville near the bottom of Indiana's cities
Among the 850 Indiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Zionsville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Zionsville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#8 of 766
99th percentile in Indiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 850
0th percentile in Indiana
Median Home Value
#11 of 771
99th percentile in Indiana
Poverty Rate
#552 of 849
35th percentile in Indiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#14 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income · 93rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Zionsville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Zionsville'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 Zionsville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$543,80013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Zionsville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,643 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,413 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Zionsville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,643 of 15,516 and #1,413 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
$159,126Zionsville, IN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Zionsville, 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 Zionsville, IN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)71.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
31,442
Median Income
$159,126
Median Home Value
$543,800
Median Age
42.6
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
71.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
298.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
21.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
277.8
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Zionsville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
30,786 residents
2021
31,646 residents
2022
32,031 residents
2023
32,480 residents
2024
33,041 residents
2025
33,624 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
248
housing units authorized
Single-Family
248
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
449
217
232
$106.3M
2020
298
298
0
$158.5M
2021
292
292
0
$231.6M
2022
179
179
0
$201.7M
2023
158
158
0
$186.2M
2024
248
248
0
$239.6M
Permit volume decreased 45% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.8 minutes
Drive Alone
69.1%
Carpool
3.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
25.2%
Other
0.9%
Based on 15,571 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 Zionsville. 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 Zionsville 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 Zionsville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Zionsville 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.