Town · Hendricks County, Indiana

Danville, Indiana

Danville is a town in Hendricks County, Indiana, part of the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area. It has 11,714 residents. Danville, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 86 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,240 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #11 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), reading scores (high) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and mental health care shortage (high).

86Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,240 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #11 of 353 in IN
Population: 11,714 (2020-2024)
Land area: 10 mi²
Density: 1,161.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1816804

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety82#2,747/15,637
Economy90#1,630/15,631
Housing73#4,091/14,977
Health80#3,121/15,609
Healthcare61#6,098/15,650
Environment45#8,545/15,453
Education85#2,324/15,649
Infrastructure86#2,259/15,650
Community64#5,693/15,651
Leisure & amenities46#8,418/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Math scores · high3.77
100/100Indiana 3.19United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHendricks County value
Reading scores · high3.57
99/100Indiana 3.08United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHendricks County value
Mammography screening · high58.0%
97/100Indiana 49.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHendricks County value
Distance to an airport · low9 mi
96/100Indiana 38 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauHendricks County value
New homes permitted · high17.7 /1k
95/100Indiana 3.9 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Hospital quality rating · high4.5
94/100Indiana 3.4United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHendricks County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
5/100Indiana 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHendricks County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.4 µg/m³
5/100Indiana 8.8 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHendricks County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Indiana 13.5United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationHendricks County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high208 min
17/100Indiana 148 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHendricks County value
Public EV charging ports · low2.1 /10k
21/100Indiana 3.2 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyHendricks County value
Students per teacher · high17.0×
22/100Indiana 15.4×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsHendricks County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
9,923 (2015-2019) → 11,714 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
7.0 /1k (2021) → 17.7 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+152%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.0% (2015-2019) → 50.1% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.0% (2015-2019) → 95.2% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.3% (2015-2019) → 30.1% (2020-2024)
+7.8 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, Danville, Indiana improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved2

Broadband+10 points85.0% → 95.2%
Household income+25%$77,806 → $97,083

Declined1

Price / income+1.0×2.1× → 3.1×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Danville, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.7 min2015-2019	26.4 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	29.7%2015-2019	37.1%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Broadband subscriptions	85.0%2015-2019	95.2%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	61%
Effective property tax rate	0.89%2015-2019	0.89%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	15%
High school diploma or higher	89.9%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.0×	Declined	23%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4032015-2019	0.3552020-2024	−0.049	Within the margin of error	83%
Median household income	$77,8062015-2019	$97,0832020-2024	+25%	Improved	43%
Poverty rate	7.1%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	22.3%2015-2019	30.1%2020-2024	+7.8 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Rent-burdened households	36.0%2015-2019	50.1%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.9%2015-2019	5.5%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	52%

“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 Danville, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Danville, 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, Danville, Indiana itself moved −4.6 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

11,714 residents (±499)

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

4,521 households (±314)

Danville, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k5.9%†265
$25k–50k14%†642
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,521 households (±314)

Danville, Indiana
Indiana share

Own75%3,376
Rent25%1,145

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+9.6 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

6,347 workers (±546)

Danville, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone77%4,863
Carpool9.3%†591
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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, 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 Hendricks County, the county holding most of Danville's residents.

Hendricks County has 3,860 employer establishments, 206 for every 10,000 residents (0.83× the US rate of 248; 0.91× Indiana's), with 74,107 paid employees at an average annual pay of $56,477. The Census Bureau also counts 16,491 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,860; 16,491 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 206; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 74,107
Average annual pay: $56,477; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	324	17.3	0.94×About typical	7,661	$20,801	66
Ambulatory health care services	311	16.6	0.80×Fewer than typical	3,315	$64,831	546
Specialty trade contractors	274	14.6	0.95×About typical	3,830	$85,495	862
Lessors of real estate	183	9.8	0.79×Fewer than typical	436	$54,633	1,339
Truck transportation	176	9.4	1.86×More than typical	1,909	$65,735	1,337
Limited-service restaurants	155	8.3	1.03×About typical	3,524	$17,749	21
Full-service restaurants	130	7	0.91×About typical	3,498	$24,540	20
Construction of buildings	122	6.5	0.86×About typical	630	$52,268	333
Real estate agents and brokers	111	5.9	1.22×About typical	206	$62,602	498
Automotive repair and maintenance	108	5.8	1.15×About typical	928	$50,231	169
Religious organizations	108	5.8	1.04×About typical	1,179	$24,772	—
Offices of other health practitioners	107	5.7	0.94×About typical	873	$44,369	292

Rank places for an industry Open Hendricks County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 187,036 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 $5,342 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Danville, Indiana: $0.46 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $5,342
Per resident: $0.46; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$5,342100%

Top recipients

MOI, INC.$5,342100%
MAGWERKS CORPORATION$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

3.7KFY2017
26.4FY2018
195.6KFY2020
166.2KFY2021
192.1KFY2022
8.8KFY2023
20.4KFY2024
0FY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$5,342100%

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

Danville, Indiana's figures are part of those of Hendricks County, IN ($3.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in Hendricks 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.

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

House

James R. BairdR-IN-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 6.2%

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.

Hendricks County90100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN68

Other cities and towns in Hendricks 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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