Clinton County, IN

County Profile

32,944 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Clinton County, IN.

Several figures AreaProfile publishes are measured by county and nowhere finer — death rates by intent among them. On this page those describe the geography they are printed on, which is not true of the city and ZIP pages that inherit them.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 43% of 1,225 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 31% of 1,255 counties measured64
Schools653rd of 973 counties measured37
Growth949th of 1,226 counties measured35
Housing affordabilityTop 22% of 1,255 counties measured100
Climate882nd of 1,254 counties measured62
Physical resilienceTop 32% of 1,255 counties measured73
Access760th of 1,255 counties measured77
Economic stabilityTop 23% of 1,255 counties measured80
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.2% and median household income $65,019, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published profiles.

In the public schools here, 33% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.7 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 54 units authorized over the past twelve months, 25% below the prior year.

At a glance

Population
32,944
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$65,019
Bottom 49% nationally
Density
81/sq mi
405.1 sq mi of land
Median age
36.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Clinton County
Indiana
Metro area
Frankfort, IN
Nearest major airport
IND
42 mi · Indianapolis Intl
Median home value
$164,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.2% is lower than 90% of the 1,255 measured US locations.

Employment grew 0.3% over the past year, to 16,619 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,538$65,019Bottom 49%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,013$30,642Bottom 28%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.8%Bottom 24%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.6 minBottom 35%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher16.5%Bottom 20%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,619Bottom 16%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.5%Top 35%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.3%Top 25%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force17,170Bottom 15%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force participation65.1%Top 18%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 23%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate3.2%Bottom 10%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/063.82.0
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.2% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202465k56k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $65,019 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.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.7 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
32.8%
Bottom 27% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
37.9%
Bottom 40% in Indiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Frankfort High SchoolCommunity Schools of Frankfort92214.4
Clinton Prairie Elementary SchoolClinton Prairie School Corporation65614.350%39%
Frankfort Middle SchoolCommunity Schools of Frankfort65416.417%32%
Suncrest Elementary SchoolCommunity Schools of Frankfort54517.035%29%
Clinton Central Elementary SchoolClinton Central School Corporation52714.651%48%
Clinton Prairie Jr-Sr High SchoolClinton Prairie School Corporation49712.412%37%
Rossville Middle/Senior High SchRossville Con School District49312.312%32%
Blue Ridge Primary Elementary SchCommunity Schools of Frankfort45619.0
Rossville Elementary SchoolRossville Con School District44015.256%54%
Green Meadows Intermediate ElemCommunity Schools of Frankfort39515.843%32%
Clinton Central Junior-Senior HSClinton Central School Corporation37512.517%42%

47.8% 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 $920 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.5 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$920
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$164,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.52Bottom 30%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.2%Bottom 48%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2913,517Top 48%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$42$920Top 41%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,300$164,100Bottom 40%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.0%Top 50%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.6%Bottom 17%of 3,2222024 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 →
Development Momentum
35/ 100
Ranks 949 of 1,226 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2022 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 32,895 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 1.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US locations.

Units permitted
54
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.6
Bottom 28% nationally
Year over year
−25%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202433k33k
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.
Housing units permitted per year
20222023202420256746
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+10%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 18°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.0 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LAFAYETTE PURDUE UNIV AP, 25.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation37.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing48°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

73 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, hail and earthquake.

HailElevated
DroughtModerate
EarthquakeElevated
TornadoElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, winter weather, cold wave, ice storm, inland flooding, landslide, hurricane, lightning, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA National Risk Index county record. 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.

Clinton County records 3.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.9 per 100,000 residents in Clinton County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.3
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 Clinton 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 Clinton County rather than Clinton County 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 42 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Indianapolis IntlIND42 mi11,200 ft
Terre Haute RgnlHUF74 mi9,021 ft
South Bend IntlSBN97 mi8,412 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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

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