Town · Hendricks County, Indiana

Pittsboro, Indiana

Pittsboro is a town in Hendricks County, Indiana, part of the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area. It has 4,156 residents. Pittsboro, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 90 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,605 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #8 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), poverty rate (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and time spent in the emergency room (high).

90Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,605 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #8 of 353 in IN
Population: 4,156 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 971.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 1860192

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
Economy93#1,170/15,631
Housing86#2,043/14,977
Health85#2,389/15,609
Healthcare72#4,376/15,650
Environment45#8,545/15,453
Education89#1,791/15,649
Infrastructure81#3,013/15,650
Community64#5,674/15,651
Leisure & amenities46#8,418/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Pittsboro, 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
Poverty rate · low0.4%
100/100Indiana 12.1%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.271
100/100Indiana 0.452United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
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
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.1%
96/100Indiana 9.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty

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
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
Pharmacies · low1.2 /10k
23/100Indiana 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHendricks County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,396 (2015-2019) → 4,156 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
47.4% (2015-2019) → 60.0% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$77,500 (2015-2019) → $126,023 (2020-2024)
+63%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeImproving
29.3% (2015-2019) → 18.1% (2018-2022)
−11 pts3 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
36.7% (2015-2019) → 46.3% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
New homes permittedWorsening
26.7 /1k (2021) → 15.9 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−41%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, Pittsboro, Indiana improved on 2 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 moved within the margin of error and 1 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

Household income+63%$77,500 → $126,023
Inequality−0.0790.349 → 0.271

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Pittsboro, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.8 min2015-2019	25.8 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	79%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.7%2015-2019	46.3%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Broadband subscriptions	93.9%2015-2019	94.3%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	1.08%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	76%
High school diploma or higher	96.6%2015-2019	99.6%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	55%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3492015-2019	0.2712020-2024	−0.079	Improved	92%
Median household income	$77,5002015-2019	$126,0232020-2024	+63%	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 Pittsboro, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pittsboro, 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, Pittsboro, Indiana itself moved +5.4 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

4,156 residents (±80)

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

1,410 households (±139)

Pittsboro, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k2.2%†31
$25k–50k4.4%†62
$50k–75k14%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,410 households (±139)

Pittsboro, Indiana
Indiana share

Own98%1,385
Rent1.8%†25

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−11.5 points).

† 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

2,116 workers (±234)

Pittsboro, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone77%1,623
Carpool6.9%†147
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 Pittsboro'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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Pittsboro, Indiana: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
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

105.7FY2019

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 Pittsboro, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Pittsboro, Indiana's figures are part of those of Hendricks County, IN ($3.2M 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: Pittsboro 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.

Pittsboro, 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 County91100% 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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