Town · Switzerland County, Indiana

Vevay, Indiana

Vevay is a town in Switzerland County, Indiana. It has 1,757 residents. Vevay, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 23 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,999 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #295 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), firearm deaths (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), average weekly wage (low) and social associations (low).

23Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,999 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #295 of 353 in IN
Population: 1,757 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,211.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 1879010

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.

Safety87#1,991/15,637
Economy9#14,225/15,631
Housing85#2,286/14,977
Health10#14,023/15,609
Healthcare15#13,340/15,650
Environment51#7,551/15,453
Education10#14,142/15,649
Infrastructure38#9,768/15,650
Community15#13,311/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,200/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Grocery stores · high5.0 /10k
99/100Indiana 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSwitzerland County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Indiana 14.6 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSwitzerland County value
Drought exposure · low0%
95/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAASwitzerland County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Indiana 5.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionSwitzerland County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.52%
86/100Indiana 0.76%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Indiana 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSwitzerland County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low10 /100k
1/100Indiana 61 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSwitzerland County value
Average weekly wage · low$822
1/100Indiana $1,251United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSwitzerland County value
Social associations · low4.0 /10k
3/100Indiana 11.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSwitzerland County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Indiana 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSwitzerland County value
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100Indiana 7.8United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSwitzerland County value
Adult smoking · high22.3%
6/100Indiana 17.8%United States 16.1%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.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
67.5% (2015-2019) → 91.5% (2020-2024)
+24 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
32.5% (2015-2019) → 9.5% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
19.4% (2015-2019) → 8.0% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
37.8% (2015-2019) → 44.0% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateImproving
19.6% (2015-2019) → 13.6% (2020-2024)
−6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$35,431 (2015-2019) → $45,962 (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Vevay, Indiana improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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

Uninsured−11 points19.4% → 8.0%
Broadband+24 points67.5% → 91.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Vevay, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.5 min2015-2019	25.9 min2020-2024	+1.4 min	Within the margin of error	33%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.3%2015-2019	12.9%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Broadband subscriptions	67.5%2015-2019	91.5%2020-2024	+24 points	Improved	95%
High school diploma or higher	86.0%2015-2019	84.5%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	66%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4532015-2019	0.4312020-2024	−0.023	Within the margin of error	69%
Median household income	$35,4312015-2019	$45,9622020-2024	+30%	Within the margin of error	55%
Poverty rate	19.6%2015-2019	13.6%2020-2024	−6 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.9%2015-2019	24.5%2020-2024	−2.4 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Rent-burdened households	37.8%2015-2019	44.0%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.4%2015-2019	8.0%2020-2024	−11 points	Improved	97%

“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 Vevay, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Vevay, 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, Vevay, Indiana itself moved +4.7 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,757 residents (±261)

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

752 households (±134)

Vevay, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k31%†231
$25k–50k21%†158
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

752 households (±134)

Vevay, Indiana
Indiana share

Own49%368
Rent51%384

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

625 workers (±132)

Vevay, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone78%487
Carpool8.5%†53
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 Switzerland County, the county holding most of Vevay's residents.

Switzerland County has 132 employer establishments, 132 for every 10,000 residents (0.53× the US rate of 248; 0.59× Indiana's), with 1,406 paid employees at an average annual pay of $33,870. The Census Bureau also counts 579 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 132; 579 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 132; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 1,406
Average annual pay: $33,870; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	8	8	0.44×Too few to compare	53	$16,434	—
Ambulatory health care services	7	7	0.34×Too few to compare	43	$55,093	10
Specialty trade contractors	6	6	0.39×Too few to compare	37	$70,757	101
Construction of buildings	5	5	0.66×Too few to compare	8	$30,625	51
Full-service restaurants	5	5	0.65×Too few to compare	37	$17,757	—
Gasoline stations	5	5	1.55×Too few to compare	36	$26,056	—
Grocery and convenience stores	5	5	1.69×Too few to compare	73	$10,753	—
Truck transportation	5	5	0.99×Too few to compare	5	$43,400	18
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	4	4	1.51×Too few to compare	44	$13,159	—
Other amusement and recreation industries	4	4	1.66×Too few to compare	44	$13,159	—
Religious organizations	4	4	0.72×Too few to compare	11	$24,636	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	3	3	0.74×Too few to compare	8	$19,875	—

Rank places for an industry Open Switzerland County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,964 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 $217 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Vevay, Indiana: $0.12 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $217; −96% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.12; 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

Department of the Army$217100%

Top recipients

C. J. MAHAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, LLC$217100%

Spending by fiscal year

375.6FY2017
520.1FY2018
260FY2019
435.3FY2020
286.2FY2021
118.9KFY2023
5.4KFY2024
5.2KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$217100%

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

Vevay, Indiana's figures are part of those of Switzerland County, IN ($210.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Switzerland 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.

Vevay, 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.

Switzerland County24100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Switzerland 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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