City · Fayette County, Indiana

Connersville, Indiana

Connersville is a city in Fayette County, Indiana, part of the Connersville, IN metro area. It has 13,109 residents. Connersville, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,718 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #347 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), homicide rate (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on adult obesity (high), adult smoking (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,718 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #347 of 353 in IN
Population: 13,109 (2020-2024)
Land area: 8 mi²
Density: 1,688.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1814932

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety60#6,222/15,637
Economy6#14,731/15,631
Housing66#5,023/14,977
Health1#15,500/15,609
Healthcare10#14,111/15,650
Environment46#8,358/15,453
Education17#12,985/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,832/15,650
Community29#11,081/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,288/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Connersville, Indiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Fayette 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

Distance to an Amtrak station · low2 mi
100/100Indiana 29 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauFayette County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Indiana 5.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFayette County value
Drought exposure · low2%
90/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAFayette County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.2×
89/100Indiana 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Indiana 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.56%
83/100Indiana 0.76%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Adult obesity · high47.3%
2/100Indiana 39.7%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · high24.4%
3/100Indiana 17.8%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Indiana 3.2 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyFayette County value
Frequent mental distress · high22.5%
4/100Indiana 19.3%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Premature death · high14,696 /100k
4/100Indiana 9,486 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value
Injury deaths · high146 /100k
4/100Indiana 96 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
67.9% (2015-2019) → 87.2% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$34,201 (2015-2019) → $48,854 (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
13.4% (2015-2019) → 6.5% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
38.7% (2015-2019) → 34.1% (2020-2024)
−4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
10.7% (2015-2019) → 15.0% (2020-2024)
+4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
High school diploma or higherImproving
77.7% (2015-2019) → 81.1% (2020-2024)
+3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Connersville, Indiana improved on 4 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.

Improved4

Uninsured−6.9 points13.4% → 6.5%
Broadband+19 points67.9% → 87.2%
Household income+43%$34,201 → $48,854
Bachelor's++4.3 points10.7% → 15.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Connersville, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.2 min2015-2019	25.7 min2020-2024	+2.5 min	Within the margin of error	23%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.7%2015-2019	15.0%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Improved	62%
Broadband subscriptions	67.9%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	89%
Child poverty rate	38.7%2015-2019	34.1%2020-2024	−4.7 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Effective property tax rate	0.65%2015-2019	0.56%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
High school diploma or higher	77.7%2015-2019	81.1%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	75%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4462015-2019	0.4322020-2024	−0.015	Within the margin of error	63%
Median household income	$34,2012015-2019	$48,8542020-2024	+43%	Improved	77%
Poverty rate	26.8%2015-2019	23.4%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Rent as share of income	31.7%2015-2019	33.1%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Rent-burdened households	52.8%2015-2019	55.0%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Unemployment rate	6.6%2015-2019	3.9%2020-2024	−2.6 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.4%2015-2019	6.5%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Improved	92%

“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 Connersville, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Connersville, 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, Connersville, Indiana itself moved +2.9 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

13,109 residents (±325)

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

5,409 households (±288)

Connersville, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k27%1,449
$25k–50k25%1,349
$50k–75k20%1,075

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,409 households (±288)

Connersville, Indiana
Indiana share

Own63%3,384
Rent37%2,025

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

5,423 workers (±404)

Connersville, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone77%4,183
Carpool13%694
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 Connersville, 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 Fayette County, the county holding most of Connersville's residents.

Fayette County has 409 employer establishments, 175 for every 10,000 residents (0.70× the US rate of 248; 0.77× Indiana's), with 4,784 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,287. The Census Bureau also counts 1,294 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 409; 1,294 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 175; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 4,784
Average annual pay: $43,287; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	40	17.1	0.93×About typical	713	$14,612	6
Ambulatory health care services	34	14.5	0.70×Fewer than typical	483	$51,783	26
Limited-service restaurants	21	9	1.12×About typical	420	$14,757	—
Religious organizations	18	7.7	1.39×More than typical	124	$19,992	—
Full-service restaurants	15	6.4	0.84×About typical	266	$14,143	—
Specialty trade contractors	12	5.1	0.33×Fewer than typical	50	$41,720	168
Truck transportation	12	5.1	1.02×About typical	55	$39,109	57
Automotive repair and maintenance	11	4.7	0.93×About typical	46	$31,109	22
Banks and credit unions	11	4.7	1.46×More than typical	94	$42,064	—
Offices of other health practitioners	11	4.7	0.77×Fewer than typical	73	$39,342	7
Outpatient care centers	11	4.7	2.56×More than typical	282	$54,057	—
Construction of buildings	10	4.3	0.57×Fewer than typical	25	$28,480	96

Rank places for an industry Open Fayette County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 23,377 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Connersville, Indiana: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

221.9FY2017
2KFY2020
-939.9FY2021
313.5FY2022

What was bought

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 Connersville, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

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

See federal money in Fayette 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.

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

House

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

Senate

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County

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

Fayette County23100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Connersville, IN13

Other cities and towns in Fayette County

Largest first.

Everton610

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
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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Scores by category

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