Census-designated place · Jennings County, Indiana

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana

Country Squire Lakes is a census-designated place in Jennings County, Indiana. It has 3,057 residents. Country Squire Lakes, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 13 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,576 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #344 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), effective property tax rate (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), adult smoking (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

13Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,576 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #344 of 353 in IN
Population: 3,057 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,193.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1815409

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety56#6,932/15,637
Economy3#15,148/15,631
Housing100#69/14,977
Health3#15,089/15,609
Healthcare24#11,902/15,650
Environment39#9,381/15,453
Education16#13,201/15,649
Infrastructure16#13,121/15,650
Community6#14,789/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#14,998/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Country Squire Lakes, Indiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jennings 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

Home price to income ratio · low0.5×
100/100Indiana 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Effective property tax rate · low0.29%
97/100Indiana 0.76%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Drought exposure · low0%
97/100Indiana 18%United States 43%Nov 2025–Oct 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAJennings County value
Property crime rate · low361 /100k
95/100Indiana 1,052 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJennings County value
Rent-burdened households · low30.0%
94/100Indiana 48.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Preventable hospital stays · low1,950 /100k
86/100Indiana 3,202 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJennings County value

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low1.8%
0/100Indiana 29.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Adult smoking · high24.6%
2/100Indiana 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 EnergyJennings County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low35.2%
4/100Indiana 76.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJennings County value
Social associations · low4.3 /10k
4/100Indiana 11.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJennings County value
Frequent mental distress · high22.3%
4/100Indiana 19.3%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,813 (2015-2019) → 3,057 (2020-2024)
+8.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
73.0% (2015-2019) → 30.0% (2020-2024)
−43 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.2% (2015-2019) → 16.0% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.2% (2015-2019) → 84.3% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioImproving
1.3× (2015-2019) → 0.5× (2020-2024)
−64%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
30.2% (2015-2019) → 43.0% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Country Squire Lakes, Indiana improved on 3 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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.

Improved3

Price / income−0.8×1.3× → 0.5×
Household income+54%$37,250 → $57,201
Broadband+15 points69.2% → 84.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Country Squire Lakes, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.5 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	−1.0 min	Within the margin of error	60%
Broadband subscriptions	69.2%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Child poverty rate	30.2%2015-2019	43.0%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	75.8%2015-2019	76.3%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Home price to income ratio	1.3×2015-2019	0.5×2020-2024	−0.8×	Improved	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4272015-2019	0.4452020-2024	+0.018	Within the margin of error	35%
Median household income	$37,2502015-2019	$57,2012020-2024	+54%	Improved	87%
Poverty rate	20.3%2015-2019	23.9%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.1%2015-2019	19.5%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	54%

“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 Country Squire Lakes, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Country Squire Lakes, 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, Country Squire Lakes, Indiana itself moved +2 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

3,057 residents (±500)

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

1,180 households (±203)

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k22%†261
$25k–50k18%†216
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,180 households (±203)

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana
Indiana share

Own75%880
Rent25%†300

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

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,443 workers (±343)

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone90%1,297
Carpool5.3%†77
Public transit0.0%0

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 Jennings County, the county holding most of Country Squire Lakes's residents.

Jennings County has 488 employer establishments, 177 for every 10,000 residents (0.71× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Indiana's), with 7,070 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,270. The Census Bureau also counts 1,629 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 488; 1,629 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 177; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 7,070
Average annual pay: $50,270; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	37	13.4	0.64×Fewer than typical	345	$52,870	43
Specialty trade contractors	37	13.4	0.87×About typical	563	$78,162	170
Restaurants and other eating places	25	9	0.49×Fewer than typical	357	$21,521	15
Building equipment contractors	20	7.2	1.20×About typical	331	$64,097	37
Truck transportation	20	7.2	1.43×More than typical	166	$60,259	34
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	16	5.8	3.63×More than typical	515	$58,289	9
Individual and family services	16	5.8	2.07×More than typical	94	$42,117	8
Lessors of real estate	16	5.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	26	$21,500	120
Services to buildings and dwellings	16	5.8	0.86×About typical	137	$37,212	133
Insurance agencies and brokerages	15	5.4	1.24×About typical	46	$46,826	16
Construction of buildings	14	5.1	0.67×Fewer than typical	132	$74,061	92
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	14	5.1	2.05×More than typical	262	$66,443	14

Rank places for an industry Open Jennings County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,630 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 Country Squire Lakes, Indiana: $0 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

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

826.2FY2017
384.5FY2018
1.1KFY2019
4KFY2020
473.3FY2021
2.7KFY2022
482.7FY2023
251.9FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 Country Squire Lakes, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana's figures are part of those of Jennings County, IN ($547.9K 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: Country Squire Lakes is mostly in Jennings County.

See federal money in Jennings 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.

Country Squire Lakes, Indiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Erin HouchinR-IN-9 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.9%

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.

Jennings County34100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jennings 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
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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