Huntertown, Indiana

Area Profile

11,379 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Huntertown, in Allen County.

69out of 100
Area Score
Top 16% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 15 sources
OpportunityTop 4% of 4,199 cities measured84
Schools2,201st of 4,162 cities measured48
GrowthTop 27% of 4,224 cities measured61
Housing affordabilityTop 47% of 4,218 cities measured68
Climate3,312th of 4,225 cities measured62
Physical resilienceTop 27% of 4,226 cities measured78
Access3,911th of 4,226 cities measured63
Economic stabilityTop 1% of 4,226 cities measured85
The quick read

Huntertown ranks in the top 4% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $109,432. The unemployment rate is published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

In the public schools here, 41% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.1 students for every teacher. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

1,530 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 4% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
11,379
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$109,432
Top 14% nationally
Density
1,624/sq mi
7 sq mi of land
Median age
33.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Indiana
Metro area
Nearest major airport
GUS
65 mi · Grissom ARB
Median home value
$298,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, is 3.3%, lower than in 87% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, grew 0.5% over the past year, to 199,768 employed residents.

44% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $109,432 is higher than in 86% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsAllen County, IN’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$57,62722nd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftAllen County, IN’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$69,89544th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,8022024 ACS 5-Year$109,432Top 14%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,2392024 ACS 5-Year$42,097Top 28%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.3%Top 16%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.4 min2024 ACS 5-Year22.8 minTop 30%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year44.3%Top 15%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year78.1%53rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentAllen County, IN’s figureJuly 2026199,768Top 32%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Allen County, IN’s figureJuly 2026+3.1%Top 13%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Allen County, IN’s figureJuly 2026+0.5%Top 28%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceAllen County, IN’s figureJuly 2026206,62168th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year89.7%Top 11%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageFort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$59,610Bottom 14%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageFort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,700Bottom 21%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Allen County, IN’s figureJuly 2026−0.6%Top 23%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateAllen County, IN’s figureJuly 20263.3%Top 13%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year14.1%74th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024109k94k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $109,432 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.

Largest occupations — Fort Wayne, IN

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators8,260$48,120
Fast Food and Counter Workers6,900$28,360
Registered Nurses6,450$79,630
Retail Salespersons5,860$31,200
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand5,800$37,860
Home Health and Personal Care Aides4,840$35,090

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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

41% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 49% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

There are 15.1 students for every full-time teacher across 1 public school, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
41.2%
Bottom 47% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
48.8%
Bottom 42% in Indiana

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Allen County, IN: too few schools in Huntertown reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly. The schools listed below are this place’s own.

The one public school on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Huntertown Elementary SchoolNorthwest Allen County Schools56318.250%45%

29.7% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Indiana’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 10% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 89.7, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area is up 54% over five years, and up 4.3% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $2,052 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.69% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,580, close to the $1,550 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,580 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $63,200 a year, about 58% of the median household income here of $109,432.

The typical renter household here spends 33% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,550 a month.

A median home at $298,200 costs 2.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $113,081, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
89.7

Prices here run about 10% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
32.6%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,580
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,550
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$298,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Huntertown’s median household income of $109,432, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure202389.7Top 6%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+4.3%70th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+54.2%89th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Fort Wayne, IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+122.1%91st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.6Bottom 45%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year91.8%81st percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2242024 ACS 5-Year3,82186th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,300Top 45%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,960Top 40%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,580Top 45%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$7202024 ACS 5-Year$1,550Bottom 18%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,6382024 ACS 5-Year$298,20072nd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2042024 ACS 5-Year$2,05257th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$10,2372024 ACS 5-Year$113,081Top 19%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.08%2024 ACS 5-Year0.69%28th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±10%2024 ACS 5-Year32.6%Bottom 28%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±712024 ACS 5-Year4581st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.2%63rd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year1.1%18th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±992024 ACS 5-Year8762nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

61/ 100
Top 27% of 4,224 published city profiles

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 grown 3% since 2020, reaching 11,481 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 1,530 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 9% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Allen County, which contains Huntertown, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $57,627, below the $69,895 of households that moved out.

At 3.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Allen County, IN, which contains Huntertown, rather than for Huntertown alone.

Units permitted
1,530
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.9
Top 37% nationally
Year over year
+4%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
9.4%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202411k11k
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. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.1%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
57%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$57,627
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$69,895
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. DeKalb County, IN 610 people · 4.8% of arrivals
  2. Whitley County, IN 569 people · 4.5% of arrivals
  3. Huntington County, IN 427 people · 3.4% of arrivals
  4. Marion County, IN 399 people · 3.2% of arrivals
  5. Wells County, IN 370 people · 2.9% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. DeKalb County, IN 765 people · 6.2% of departures
  2. Whitley County, IN 618 people · 5.0% of departures
  3. Huntington County, IN 474 people · 3.9% of departures
  4. Marion County, IN 470 people · 3.8% of departures
  5. Noble County, IN 454 people · 3.7% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Allen County, IN. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Huntertown, IN is not one. This is the figure for Allen County, IN, which contains this city.

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 39.5 inches, including 33.6 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 45, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FT WAYNE INTL AP, 17.2 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year642024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals39.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals33.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year02024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year452024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals48°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
45
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

78 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and strong wind, with inland flooding alone responsible for 61% of it. Inland flooding and strong wind are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 73% of measured US cities.

TornadoElevated
HailModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, inland flooding, winter weather, lightning, cold wave, ice storm, drought, landslide, hurricane, wildfire, coastal flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Allen County records 6.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.7 per 100,000 residents in Allen County.

Homicide
6.3
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.7
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
16.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
15.0
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Huntertown (Allen County) rather than Huntertown itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way 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
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Grissom ARB at 65 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year96.5%Top 18%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle65 miBottom 7%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle4Bottom 38%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year1.7%Top 18%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Grissom ARBGUS65 mi12,501 ft
South Bend IntlSBN69 mi8,412 ft
Eugene F Kranz Toledo ExpressTOL75 mi10,600 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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Other cities in Fort Wayne, IN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Fort WayneAllen County268,58966Fort Wayne vs Huntertown
New HavenAllen County15,69863New Haven vs Huntertown
BlufftonWells County10,52972Bluffton vs Huntertown

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Huntertown

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Huntertown with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Huntertown closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
467486,902$109,375$319,700—