46052Lebanon, Indiana

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 46052.

76out of 100
Area Score
Top 5% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 18% of 6,210 published ZIP areas72
SchoolsTop 36% of 4,422 published ZIP areas62
GrowthTop 16% of 5,428 published ZIP areas70
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 6,685 published ZIP areas98
Climate3960th of 6,789 published ZIP areas68
Physical resilienceTop 16% of 6,709 published ZIP areas85
Access4795th of 6,791 published ZIP areas85
Economic stabilityTop 14% of 6,742 published ZIP areas79
The quick read

46052 ranks in the top 18% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $68,930.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 91 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 25% on the prior year.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 46052 in the top 16% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
23,553
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$68,930
Bottom 45% nationally
Density
133/sq mi
177.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Lebanon
Indiana
Metro area
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
Nearest major airport
IND
24 mi · Indianapolis Intl
Median home value
$221,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.0% is lower than 96% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 42,319 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,096$68,930Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,758$37,536Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.6%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.1 minBottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher25.6%Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment42,319Bottom 42%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)5.5%Top 4%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 45%June 2026
Labor force43,645Bottom 41%June 2026
Labor force participation68.1%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,180Bottom 38%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,340Bottom 39%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 43%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.0%Bottom 4%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202471k65k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $68,930 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 — Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand48,100$44,180
Retail Salespersons28,840$31,530
Fast Food and Counter Workers28,400$29,040
Registered Nurses25,800$84,230
Stockers and Order Fillers25,630$37,120
Home Health and Personal Care Aides20,590$35,060

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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Lebanon, IN, the city containing this ZIP code.

43% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 41% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
43.2%
Top 31% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
40.7%
Top 40% in Indiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Lebanon Senior High SchoolLebanon Community School Corp1,07016.0
Lebanon Middle SchoolLebanon Community School Corp84918.132%42%
Perry Worth Elementary SchoolLebanon Community School Corp60116.758%45%
Harney Elementary SchoolLebanon Community School Corp44814.032%27%
Hattie B Stokes Elementary SchoolLebanon Community School Corp39410.934%29%
Central Elementary SchoolLebanon Community School Corp33916.171%61%

47.1% 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 $977 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
17.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$977
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$221,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.22Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.8%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±42910,006Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$85$977Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,763$221,900Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.0%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.7%Bottom 11%2024 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
70/ 100
Top 16% of 5,428 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.

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

At 5.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
91
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.1
Top 30% nationally
Year over year
+25%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Lebanon, IN, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 85°F and January a low of 21°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 40.7 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 36, 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 INDIANAPOLIS EAGLE CREEK AP, 17.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index51.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation40.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low21°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high85°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index36.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing47°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
36
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
51
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. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

85 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Overall hazard risk is lower than 77% of measured US ZIP areas.

HailModerate
EarthquakeHigh
DroughtModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Heat waveModerate
LightningModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Boone County records 2.5 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 9.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.1 per 100,000 residents in Boone County.

Homicide
2.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.8
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 Boone 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 46052 rather than 46052 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Indianapolis IntlIND24 mi11,200 ft
Terre Haute RgnlHUF61 mi9,021 ft
South Bend IntlSBN115 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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

46052 vs Lebanon

How this ZIP area compares with Lebanon as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

46052
Lebanon
Median household income
$68,930
vs
$65,154
Per capita income
$37,536
vs
$32,583
Population density
133/sq mi
vs
1,029/sq mi
Median home value
$221,900
vs
$195,600
Median gross rent
$977
vs
$962
Homeownership rate
74.8%
vs
69.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.6%
vs
21.7%
Poverty rate
6.6%
vs
7.9%
Median age
37.2
vs
34.6

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.