Logansport, Indiana

Area Profile

17,790 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Logansport, in Cass County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3077th of 3,904 published cities42
Schools2073rd of 2,668 published cities30
Housing affordabilityTop 18% of 4,223 published cities96
Climate3414th of 4,223 published cities61
Physical resilienceTop 47% of 4,182 published cities61
Access3921st of 4,226 published cities61
Economic stability3303rd of 4,226 published cities43
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 3.7% and the Opportunity signal places Logansport in the bottom 21%.

In the public schools here, 31% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.7 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 20% of median household income and the median home is 1.9 times it.

At a glance

Population
17,790
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$47,291
Bottom 19% nationally
Density
1,695/sq mi
10.5 sq mi of land
Median age
37.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Cass County
Indiana
Metro area
Logansport, IN
Nearest major airport
SBN
66 mi · South Bend Intl
Median home value
$92,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 74% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.0% over the past year, to 17,416 employed residents.

Median household income of $47,291 is below 81% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,134$47,291Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,159$23,541Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate16.1%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute20.8 minBottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher12.2%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment17,416Bottom 20%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.3%Top 44%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.0%Bottom 19%June 2026
Labor force18,089Bottom 20%June 2026
Labor force participation59.7%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 8%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 26%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202447k42k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $47,291 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 Cass County, IN, which contains this city.

31% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 32% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.7 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
30.9%
Bottom 28% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
32.1%
Bottom 21% in Indiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Logansport Community High SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp1,14814.5
Landis Elementary SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp81916.437%35%
Logansport Intermediate SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp65417.2
Logansport Junior High SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp64116.915%32%
Columbia Elementary SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp43213.129%23%
Fairview Elementary SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp42814.845%35%
The Academy at Logansport Community SchoolLogansport Community Sch Corp24422.2
Berry PreschoolLogansport Community Sch Corp12217.4
Century Career CenterLogansport Community Sch Corp0

70.1% 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 $786 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 1.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
1.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$786
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$92,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income1.95Bottom 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate61.5%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3007,395Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$69$786Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,205$92,200Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.9%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.5%Bottom 44%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 →

Population has fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 18,168 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202418k18k
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

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 41.3 inches, including 19.4 inches of snow.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LOGANSPORT CICOTT ST, 1.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation41.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall19.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing49°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

61 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HailModerate
DroughtModerate
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

Cass 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 12.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.3 per 100,000 residents in Cass County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
29.2
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 Cass 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 Logansport rather than Logansport 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 66 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
South Bend IntlSBN66 mi8,412 ft
Indianapolis IntlIND71 mi11,200 ft
Gary/Chicago IntlGYY82 mi8,859 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 Logansport

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4694728,687$54,791