Connersville, Indiana

Area Profile

13,109 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Connersville, in Fayette County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3284th of 3,904 cities measured39
Schools1845th of 2,668 cities measured37
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 4,223 cities measured97
Climate2422nd of 4,223 cities measured68
Physical resilience2529th of 4,182 cities measured48
Access3585th of 4,226 cities measured73
Economic stability4051st of 4,226 cities measured26
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.2% and the Opportunity signal places Connersville in the bottom 16%.

In the public schools here, 34% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.9 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.2 times it.

At a glance

Population
13,109
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$48,854
Bottom 21% nationally
Density
1,688/sq mi
7.8 sq mi of land
Median age
41.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Fayette County
Indiana
Metro area
Connersville, IN
Nearest major airport
CVG
49 mi · Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Intl
Median home value
$106,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.2% is lower than 55% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 9,722 employed residents.

Median household income of $48,854 is below 79% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,052$48,854Bottom 21%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,009$26,599Bottom 25%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate23.4%Top 18%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.6 minTop 45%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.0%Bottom 34%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment9,722Bottom 3%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.3%Bottom 16%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 47%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force10,150Bottom 3%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation54.6%Bottom 32%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 30%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.2%Bottom 45%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202449k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $48,854 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Fayette County, IN, which contains this city.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 36% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.1%
Bottom 38% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
35.8%
Bottom 35% in Indiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Connersville Sr High SchoolFayette County School Corporation91216.3
Grandview Elementary SchoolFayette County School Corporation53020.430%37%
Connersville Middle SchoolFayette County School Corporation43414.522%42%
Fayette Central ElementaryFayette County School Corporation33218.447%37%
Eastview Elementary SchoolFayette County School Corporation33014.338%38%
Frazee Elementary SchoolFayette County School Corporation29918.734%31%
Everton Elementary SchoolFayette County School Corporation26617.741%24%
Whitewater Career CenterFayette County School Corporation0

63.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Indiana’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $787 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.2 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$787
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$106,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.18Bottom 28%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate62.6%Bottom 24%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2486,428Top 9%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$30$787Bottom 26%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,001$106,300Bottom 22%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.3%Top 45%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate15.9%Top 32%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 13,282 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202413k13k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.1 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SHELBYVILLE MUNI AP, 35.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation43.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

48 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and cold wave.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 84% of measured US cities.

TornadoHigh
EarthquakeModerate
Inland floodingModerate
HailModerate
Cold waveElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, strong wind, ice storm, drought, lightning, winter weather, hurricane, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Fayette County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Drug overdose deaths run at 29.1 per 100,000 residents in Fayette County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
29.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Fayette County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Connersville rather than Connersville itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 49 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG49 mi10,000 ft
James M Cox Dayton IntlDAY52 mi8,502 ft
Indianapolis IntlIND61 mi11,200 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Connersville

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4733122,786$58,967