Indiana, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

14,212 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Indiana, in Indiana County.

66out of 100
Area Score
Top 32% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 49% of 3,904 published cities57
SchoolsTop 9% of 2,668 published cities84
Growth2349th of 2,973 published cities33
Housing affordability2123rd of 4,223 published cities81
Climate3171st of 4,223 published cities62
Physical resilienceTop 21% of 4,182 published cities81
Access2929th of 4,226 published cities86
Economic stability3926th of 4,226 published cities30
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.6% and median household income $40,857, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Rent takes 25% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.3 times that income.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Indiana in the top 21% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
14,212
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$40,857
Bottom 11% nationally
Density
8,080/sq mi
1.8 sq mi of land
Median age
23.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Indiana County
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Indiana, PA
Nearest major airport
LBE
28 mi · Arnold Palmer Rgnl
Median home value
$135,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.6% is lower than 39% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 3.0% over the past year, to 33,929 employed residents.

49% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $40,857 is below 89% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$11,418$40,857Bottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,650$26,286Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate21.7%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute17.9 minBottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher48.9%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment33,929Bottom 41%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.1%Top 34%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)3.0%Top 2%June 2026
Labor force35,561Bottom 41%June 2026
Labor force participation60.1%Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 7%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.6%Top 39%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202445k35k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $40,857 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 Indiana County, PA, which contains this city.

47% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 68% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
47.3%
Top 17% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
68.2%
Top 12% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Indiana Area SHSIndiana Area SD91317.2
Indiana Area JHSIndiana Area SD62814.637%67%
East Pike El SchIndiana Area SD44513.162%77%
Ben Franklin El SchIndiana Area SD41413.447%62%
Eisenhower El SchIndiana Area SD21312.539%62%
Horace Mann El SchIndiana Area SD19011.957%72%
Indiana County Technology CenterIndiana County Technology Center140.8

51.2% 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 Pennsylvania’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 $849 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
24.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$849
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$135,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.32Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate44.7%Bottom 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3116,684Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$51$849Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,326$135,600Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income24.9%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate21.9%Top 21%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
33/ 100
Ranks 2349 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, 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 grown 2% since 2020, reaching 14,294 in 2024.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202414k14k
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
20222023202420250.00.0
Annual totals from 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 79°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 37, 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 JOHNSTOWN CAMBRIA CO AP, 27.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index56.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high79°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index37.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
37
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
56
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

81 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane and strong wind.

HurricaneModerate
Strong windModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, lightning, inland flooding, cold wave, hail, earthquake, tornado, avalanche, wildfire, ice storm, heat wave, winter weather.

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.

Indiana County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 11.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.8 per 100,000 residents in Indiana County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.4
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 Indiana 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 Indiana rather than Indiana 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 28 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Arnold Palmer RgnlLBE28 mi8,222 ft
Pittsburgh IntlPIT57 mi11,500 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG91 mi9,003 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
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 Indiana

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1570131,269$56,31169
157053,101