New Haven, Indiana

Area Profile

15,698 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for New Haven, in Allen County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 12% of 3,904 published cities76
Schools1679th of 2,668 published cities42
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
Climate3314th of 4,223 published cities62
Physical resilienceTop 28% of 4,182 published cities77
Access3958th of 4,226 published cities59
Economic stabilityTop 36% of 4,226 published cities67
The quick read

New Haven ranks in the top 12% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $70,970.

In the public schools here, 24% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.5 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.4 times it.

At a glance

Population
15,698
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$70,970
Top 44% nationally
Density
1,221/sq mi
12.9 sq mi of land
Median age
39.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Allen County
Indiana
Metro area
Fort Wayne, IN
Nearest major airport
TOL
72 mi · Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express
Median home value
$166,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 89% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.7% over the past year, to 199,762 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,599$70,970Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,932$34,058Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.7%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.9 minBottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher23.1%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment199,762Top 29%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.1%Top 13%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.7%Top 16%June 2026
Labor force206,675Top 29%June 2026
Labor force participation67.8%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,610Bottom 13%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,700Bottom 21%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 28%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 11%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202471k57k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $70,970 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

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.

24% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 47% 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
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
24.5%
Bottom 16% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
47.5%
Top 31% in Indiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
New Haven Jr/Sr High SchoolEast Allen County Schools1,41315.422%57%
New Haven Intermediate SchoolEast Allen County Schools60716.930%25%
New Haven Primary SchoolEast Allen County Schools47514.4
EACS Early Childhood PreschoolEast Allen County Schools6315.8

64.6% 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 $998 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.4 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
16.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$998
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$166,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.35Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate75.7%Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3736,916Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$74$998Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,567$166,900Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.9%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.2%Bottom 25%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 grown 4% since 2020, reaching 16,200 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202416k16k
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 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, 12.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation39.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall33.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index45.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing48°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. 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

77 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, inland flooding, winter weather, hail, lightning, cold wave, ice storm, drought, 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. 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.

Allen County records 6.6 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, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.5 per 100,000 residents in Allen County.

Homicide
6.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.9
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 Allen 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 New Haven rather than New Haven 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 72 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Eugene F Kranz Toledo ExpressTOL72 mi10,600 ft
South Bend IntlSBN81 mi8,412 ft
Battle Creek Exec At Kellogg FldBTL86 mi10,004 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 County268,589vs New Haven
HuntertownAllen County11,379vs New Haven
BlufftonWells County10,529vs New Haven

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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)
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.

ZIP codes in New Haven

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4677417,858$76,292