City · Rush County, Indiana

Rushville, Indiana

Rushville is a city in Rush County, Indiana. It has 6,036 residents. Rushville, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,073 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #158 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), social associations (high) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), depression (high) and access to exercise opportunities (low).

42Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,073 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #158 of 353 in IN
Population: 6,036 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,783.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1866438

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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#2,764/15,637
Economy20#12,554/15,631
Housing77#3,373/14,977
Health17#12,998/15,609
Healthcare28#11,290/15,650
Environment56#6,801/15,453
Education39#9,624/15,649
Infrastructure47#8,330/15,650
Community43#8,878/15,651
Leisure & amenities49#7,979/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low99 min
96/100Indiana 148 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRush County value
Social associations · high16.0 /10k
94/100Indiana 11.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRush County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Indiana 5.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataRush County value
Property crime rate · low423 /100k
93/100Indiana 1,052 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationRush County value
Drought exposure · low2%
92/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAARush County value
Grocery stores · high2.4 /10k
86/100Indiana 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsRush County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low7.4 /1k
4/100Indiana 12.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauRush County value
Depression · high28.7%
11/100Indiana 25.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Access to exercise opportunities · low50.4%
11/100Indiana 76.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRush County value
Adult smoking · high20.0%
13/100Indiana 17.8%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high20.7%
14/100Indiana 19.3%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · low14.2%
15/100Indiana 29.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Trends

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

New homes permittedImproving
0.5 /1k (2021) → 1.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+143%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
65.3% (2015-2019) → 88.4% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.4× (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
41.7% (2015-2019) → 47.3% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
13.0% (2015-2019) → 7.7% (2020-2024)
−5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherImproving
85.9% (2015-2019) → 90.2% (2020-2024)
+4.2 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, Rushville, Indiana improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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.

Improved1

Broadband+23 points65.3% → 88.4%

Declined1

Price / income+0.6×1.8× → 2.4×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Rushville, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.6 min2015-2019	21.9 min2020-2024	−1.7 min	Within the margin of error	67%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.4%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Broadband subscriptions	65.3%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	+23 points	Improved	94%
Child poverty rate	22.6%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Effective property tax rate	0.89%2015-2019	0.68%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	61%
High school diploma or higher	85.9%2015-2019	90.2%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.6×	Declined	44%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3932015-2019	0.4122020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	35%
Median household income	$48,6482015-2019	$53,4342020-2024	+9.8%	Within the margin of error	17%
Poverty rate	16.2%2015-2019	17.3%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Rent as share of income	26.2%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Rent-burdened households	41.7%2015-2019	47.3%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.0%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	−5.3 points	Within the margin of error	88%

“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 Rushville, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rushville, 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, Rushville, Indiana itself moved −1.2 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

6,036 residents (±373)

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

2,522 households (±180)

Rushville, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k25%626
$25k–50k21%†521
$50k–75k19%†468

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,522 households (±180)

Rushville, Indiana
Indiana share

Own61%1,536
Rent39%986

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

2,600 workers (±282)

Rushville, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone84%2,181
Carpool8.9%†231
Public transit0.9%†24

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 Rush County, the county holding most of Rushville's residents.

Rush County has 386 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.02× Indiana's), with 3,819 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,480. The Census Bureau also counts 1,174 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 386; 1,174 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 3,819
Average annual pay: $49,480; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	31	18.4	1.19×About typical	151	$43,245	148
Truck transportation	24	14.3	2.82×More than typical	279	$64,122	51
Restaurants and other eating places	22	13.1	0.71×Fewer than typical	268	$20,112	4
Religious organizations	21	12.5	2.25×More than typical	82	$17,793	—
Ambulatory health care services	17	10.1	0.49×Fewer than typical	102	$52,657	18
Construction of buildings	11	6.5	0.87×About typical	39	$55,462	79
Full-service restaurants	11	6.5	0.85×About typical	71	$30,845	—
Building equipment contractors	10	6	0.99×About typical	51	$50,922	31
Lessors of real estate	10	6	0.48×Fewer than typical	24	$26,125	138
Insurance agencies and brokerages	9	5.4	1.22×Too few to compare	14	$42,429	21
Limited-service restaurants	9	5.4	0.67×Too few to compare	193	$16,409	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	8	4.8	0.95×Too few to compare	47	$38,000	22

Rank places for an industry Open Rush County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,805 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 $176 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Rushville, Indiana: $0.03 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $176
Per resident: $0.03; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; 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

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$176100%

Top recipients

FIELDS OUTDOOR ADVENTURES, LLP$176100%

Spending by fiscal year

175.7FY2026

What was bought

Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$176100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers · 4239$176100%

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

Rushville, Indiana's figures are part of those of Rush County, IN ($682.1K 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: Rushville is mostly in Rush County.

See federal money in Rush 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.

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

House

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

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.

Rush County58100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Rush 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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