Town · Wayne County, Indiana

Centerville, Indiana

Centerville is a town in Wayne County, Indiana, part of the Richmond, IN metro area. It has 2,772 residents. Centerville, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 23 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,990 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #294 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), social associations (high) and average commute time (low). It ranks worst on drug overdose deaths (high), injury deaths (high) and food environment index (low).

23Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,990 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #294 of 353 in IN
Population: 2,772 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 791.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1811836

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety38#9,623/15,637
Economy9#14,243/15,631
Housing47#7,950/14,977
Health5#14,869/15,609
Healthcare46#8,505/15,650
Environment48#7,989/15,453
Education14#13,425/15,649
Infrastructure77#3,551/15,650
Community32#10,657/15,651
Leisure & amenities26#11,521/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Centerville, Indiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wayne County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Mental health providers · high512 /100k
88/100Indiana 226 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Social associations · high13.3 /10k
84/100Indiana 11.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Average commute time · low19.4 min
81/100Indiana 24.1 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Drought exposure · low11%
80/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAWayne County value
Broadband subscriptions · high94.9%
80/100Indiana 89.9%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Hot days · low7 days
79/100Indiana 14 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWayne County value

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high40.8 /100k
3/100Indiana 18.5 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWayne County value
Injury deaths · high141 /100k
5/100Indiana 96 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Food environment index · low6.2
5/100Indiana 6.5United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Suicide rate · high27.2 /100k
6/100Indiana 16.1 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWayne County value
Voter turnout · low53.6%
8/100Indiana 59.4%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionWayne County value
Depression · high29.6%
8/100Indiana 25.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
2,579 (2015-2019) → 2,772 (2020-2024)
+7.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
41.6% (2015-2019) → 70.6% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
77.5% (2015-2019) → 94.9% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 3.0× (2020-2024)
+60%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
27.7% (2015-2019) → 16.2% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
26.0% (2015-2019) → 35.9% (2020-2024)
+9.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Centerville, Indiana improved on 1 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+17 points77.5% → 94.9%

Declined3

Rent burden+29 points41.6% → 70.6%
Rent / income+9.9 points26.0% → 35.9%
Price / income+1.1×1.9× → 3.0×

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Centerville, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.4 min2015-2019	19.4 min2020-2024	−7.0 min	Within the margin of error	95%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.0%2015-2019	13.1%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	77.5%2015-2019	94.9%2020-2024	+17 points	Improved	85%
Child poverty rate	27.7%2015-2019	16.2%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Effective property tax rate	0.81%2015-2019	0.82%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	89.0%2015-2019	85.4%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	18%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.4632020-2024	+0.050	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$47,0452015-2019	$49,6882020-2024	+5.6%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	17.4%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.0%2015-2019	35.9%2020-2024	+9.9 points	Declined	10%
Rent-burdened households	41.6%2015-2019	70.6%2020-2024	+29 points	Declined	3%
Unemployment rate	7.2%2015-2019	7.4%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.5%2015-2019	8.8%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	65%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Centerville, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Centerville, Indiana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Centerville, Indiana itself moved −15.6 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,772 residents (±21)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,050 households (±77)

Centerville, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k22%†231
$25k–50k28%†297
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,050 households (±77)

Centerville, Indiana
Indiana share

Own73%766
Rent27%284

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,106 workers (±144)

Centerville, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone85%938
Carpool7.4%†82
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Richmond, IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Wayne County, the county holding most of Centerville's residents.

Wayne County has 1,453 employer establishments, 220 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Indiana's), with 25,774 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,352. The Census Bureau also counts 4,099 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,453; 4,099 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 220; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 25,774
Average annual pay: $51,352; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Wayne County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	140	21.2	1.02×About typical	2,280	$83,295	164
Restaurants and other eating places	116	17.5	0.96×About typical	2,545	$18,313	13
Specialty trade contractors	68	10.3	0.66×Fewer than typical	505	$53,050	344
Religious organizations	59	8.9	1.61×More than typical	294	$19,378	—
Lessors of real estate	56	8.5	0.69×Fewer than typical	144	$37,139	384
Full-service restaurants	54	8.2	1.06×About typical	1,269	$18,901	5
Limited-service restaurants	51	7.7	0.96×About typical	1,087	$17,962	6
Offices of physicians	47	7.1	1.10×About typical	821	$118,453	25
Automotive repair and maintenance	36	5.4	1.08×About typical	172	$31,169	71
Gasoline stations	36	5.4	1.68×More than typical	388	$28,552	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	34	5.1	0.76×Fewer than typical	387	$43,840	270
Banks and credit unions	33	5	1.54×More than typical	395	$66,947	—

Rank places for an industry Open Wayne County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 66,129 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$228 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Centerville, Indiana: -$0.08 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$228; −104% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.08; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Bureau of Investigation$1,5390.0%

Top recipients

GOLDEN ENGINEERING, INC.-$2280.0%

Spending by fiscal year

53.1KFY2017
108.4KFY2018
87.5KFY2019
79.2KFY2020
6.1KFY2021
1.9KFY2022
7.9KFY2023
16.7KFY2024

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Centerville, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Centerville, Indiana's figures are part of those of Wayne County, IN ($1.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Centerville is mostly in Wayne County.

See federal money in Wayne County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Centerville, Indiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Jefferson ShreveR-IN-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 1.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Wayne County32100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Richmond, IN29

Other cities and towns in Wayne County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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