City · Ohio County, Indiana

Rising Sun, Indiana

Rising Sun is a city in Ohio County, Indiana, part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area. It has 2,474 residents. Rising Sun, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 35 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,138 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #197 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on drug overdose deaths (low), homicide rate (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on average weekly wage (low), pharmacies (low) and primary care physicians (low).

35Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,138 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #197 of 353 in IN
Population: 2,474 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,647.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1864674

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 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.

Safety88#1,821/15,637
Economy28#11,230/15,631
Housing49#7,710/14,977
Health45#8,550/15,609
Healthcare22#12,169/15,650
Environment42#8,892/15,453
Education53#7,300/15,649
Infrastructure20#12,446/15,650
Community31#10,738/15,651
Leisure & amenities37#9,826/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Indiana 18.5 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOhio County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Indiana 5.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100k2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOhio County value
Drought exposure · low2%
92/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAOhio County value
Public libraries · high1.7 /10k
88/100Indiana 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesOhio County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Indiana 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOhio County value
Traffic deaths · low6.7 /100k
85/100Indiana 13.3 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataOhio County value

Weaknesses

Average weekly wage · low$771
0/100Indiana $1,251United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOhio County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Indiana 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOhio County value
Primary care physicians · low16 /100k
3/100Indiana 66 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOhio County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Indiana 3.2 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyOhio County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Indiana 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOhio County value
New business applications · low7.5 /1k
4/100Indiana 12.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauOhio County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,099 (2015-2019) → 2,474 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
32.3% (2015-2019) → 62.5% (2020-2024)
+30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
1.8 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.9% (2015-2019) → 84.1% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$40,329 (2015-2019) → $58,843 (2020-2024)
+46%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
24.7% (2015-2019) → 16.3% (2020-2024)
−8.4 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, Rising Sun, Indiana improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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+15 points68.9% → 84.1%
Household income+46%$40,329 → $58,843

Declined2

Rent burden+30 points32.3% → 62.5%
Rent / income+7.8 points25.6% → 33.4%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Rising Sun, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.8 min2015-2019	29.5 min2020-2024	+6.7 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.2%2015-2019	17.2%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Broadband subscriptions	68.9%2015-2019	84.1%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Effective property tax rate	0.59%2015-2019	0.69%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
High school diploma or higher	85.1%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	70%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4042015-2019	0.4302020-2024	+0.026	Within the margin of error	30%
Median household income	$40,3292015-2019	$58,8432020-2024	+46%	Improved	81%
Poverty rate	15.7%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.6%2015-2019	33.4%2020-2024	+7.8 points	Declined	13%
Rent-burdened households	32.3%2015-2019	62.5%2020-2024	+30 points	Declined	3%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.9%2015-2019	5.5%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%

“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 Rising Sun, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rising Sun, 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, Rising Sun, Indiana itself moved −14.4 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

2,474 residents (±250)

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

1,074 households (±100)

Rising Sun, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k16%†174
$25k–50k27%†291
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,074 households (±100)

Rising Sun, Indiana
Indiana share

Own71%762
Rent29%312

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+10.3 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

1,181 workers (±181)

Rising Sun, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone81%951
Carpool9.7%†114
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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-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 Ohio County, the county holding most of Rising Sun's residents.

Ohio County has 86 employer establishments, 143 for every 10,000 residents (0.58× the US rate of 248; 0.63× Indiana's), with 801 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,002. The Census Bureau also counts 345 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 86; 345 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 143; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 801
Average annual pay: $36,002; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	9	15	0.97×Too few to compare	56	$52,786	40
Restaurants and other eating places	6	10	0.54×Too few to compare	52	$15,865	3
Lessors of real estate	5	8.3	0.68×Too few to compare	12	$28,750	36
Other specialty trade contractors	5	8.3	3.32×Too few to compare	19	$49,579	15
Ambulatory health care services	4	6.7	0.32×Too few to compare	30	$59,700	7
Construction of buildings	4	6.7	0.88×Too few to compare	3	$70,667	26
Full-service restaurants	4	6.7	0.87×Too few to compare	34	$17,500	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	4	6.7	0.99×Too few to compare	18	$23,944	21
Building equipment contractors	3	5	0.83×Too few to compare	33	$58,515	8
Landscaping services	3	5	1.43×Too few to compare	17	$24,471	8
Religious organizations	3	5	0.90×Too few to compare	9	$15,111	—
Truck transportation	3	5	0.99×Too few to compare	6	$33,333	11

Rank places for an industry Open Ohio County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 5,998 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 $1,171 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Rising Sun, Indiana: $0.47 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,171; −83% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.47; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$1,171100%

Top recipients

IOK TECHNOLOGY LLC$1,171100%

Spending by fiscal year

77.6FY2017
6.8KFY2025
1.2KFY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$1,913100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Hardware manufacturing · 3325$1,913100%

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 Rising Sun, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Rising Sun, Indiana's figures are part of those of Ohio County, IN ($34.5K in FY2026), never added to them: 3.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Ohio 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.

Rising Sun, 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.

Ohio County46100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN69

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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