Town · Johnson County, Indiana

Whiteland, Indiana

Whiteland is a town in Johnson County, Indiana, part of the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area. It has 5,173 residents. Whiteland, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 70 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,630 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #38 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), new homes permitted (high) and broadband subscriptions (high). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and depression (high).

70High

Quality-of-life score: #4,630 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #38 of 353 in IN
Population: 5,173 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 944.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1883816

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety59#6,468/15,637
Economy69#4,837/15,631
Housing88#1,747/14,977
Health40#9,318/15,609
Healthcare68#4,934/15,650
Environment30#10,859/15,453
Education75#3,979/15,649
Infrastructure88#1,873/15,650
Community64#5,685/15,651
Leisure & amenities28#11,269/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Indiana 3.4United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJohnson County value
New homes permitted · high24.5 /1k
97/100Indiana 3.9 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Broadband subscriptions · high98.5%
96/100Indiana 89.9%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Drought exposure · low0%
95/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAJohnson County value
Math scores · high3.46
95/100Indiana 3.19United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJohnson County value
Job growth · high2.7%
92/100Indiana -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataJohnson County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
4/100Indiana 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJohnson County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high8.9 µg/m³
14/100Indiana 8.8 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyJohnson County value
Depression · high27.3%
18/100Indiana 25.6%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Firearm deaths · high19.1 /100k
18/100Indiana 14.6 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJohnson County value
Homicide rate · high6.6 /100k
19/100Indiana 5.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJohnson County value
Average weekly wage · low$1,007
20/100Indiana $1,251United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJohnson County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,423 (2015-2019) → 5,173 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 24.5% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.6% (2015-2019) → 98.5% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
44.1 /1k (2021) → 24.6 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−44%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
37.1% (2015-2019) → 29.9% (2020-2024)
−7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
2.6% (2015-2019) → 9.3% (2020-2024)
+6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Whiteland, Indiana improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 7 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+13 points85.6% → 98.5%

Declined1

Child poverty+25 points0.0% → 24.5%

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Whiteland, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.3 min2015-2019	28.6 min2020-2024	+3.2 min	Within the margin of error	18%
Bachelor's degree or higher	29.4%2015-2019	31.6%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	85.6%2015-2019	98.5%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	72%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	24.5%2020-2024	+25 points	Declined	3%
Effective property tax rate	1.08%2015-2019	0.70%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	83%
High school diploma or higher	95.8%2015-2019	92.7%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	46%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3652015-2019	0.3382020-2024	−0.028	Within the margin of error	73%
Median household income	$75,7412015-2019	$96,9442020-2024	+28%	Within the margin of error	51%

“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 Whiteland, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Whiteland, 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, Whiteland, Indiana itself moved −0 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

5,173 residents (±694)

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

1,790 households (±326)

Whiteland, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k7.5%†135
$25k–50k19%†332
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,790 households (±326)

Whiteland, Indiana
Indiana share

Own94%1,683
Rent6.0%†107

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+13.2 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

2,726 workers (±606)

Whiteland, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone80%2,189
Carpool5.5%†151
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 Johnson County, the county holding most of Whiteland's residents.

Johnson County has 3,779 employer establishments, 224 for every 10,000 residents (0.90× the US rate of 248; 0.99× Indiana's), with 60,256 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,830. The Census Bureau also counts 14,720 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,779; 14,720 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 224; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 60,256
Average annual pay: $47,830; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	335	19.9	0.95×About typical	4,812	$62,437	419
Restaurants and other eating places	316	18.8	1.02×About typical	6,623	$22,168	71
Specialty trade contractors	279	16.6	1.07×About typical	3,553	$68,811	862
Truck transportation	203	12.1	2.38×More than typical	1,593	$53,888	2,088
Lessors of real estate	195	11.6	0.94×About typical	561	$47,348	1,308
Limited-service restaurants	144	8.6	1.07×About typical	2,877	$18,934	37
Construction of buildings	130	7.7	1.02×About typical	605	$75,921	348
Full-service restaurants	130	7.7	1.01×About typical	3,410	$24,998	22
Building equipment contractors	126	7.5	1.24×About typical	2,444	$72,118	180
Services to buildings and dwellings	117	6.9	1.03×About typical	644	$37,022	641
Offices of other health practitioners	111	6.6	1.08×About typical	1,194	$43,505	227
Real estate agents and brokers	108	6.4	1.32×More than typical	191	$46,387	481

Rank places for an industry Open Johnson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 168,405 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 Whiteland, Indiana: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
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

7.2KFY2023

What was bought

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

Whiteland, Indiana's figures are part of those of Johnson County, IN ($19.8M 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: Whiteland is mostly in Johnson County.

See federal money in Johnson 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.

Whiteland, 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.

Johnson County82100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN68

Other cities and towns in Johnson 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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