City · Rock County, Wisconsin

Evansville, Wisconsin

Evansville is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin, part of the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area. It has 5,782 residents. Evansville, Wisconsin has a quality-of-life score of 67 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,242 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wisconsin it ranks #326 of 396 cities and towns. It ranks best on child poverty rate (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), injury deaths (high) and preventable hospital stays (high).

67High

Quality-of-life score: #5,242 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wisconsin: #326 of 396 in WI
Population: 5,782 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,556.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 5524550

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.

Safety43#8,843/15,637
Economy77#3,565/15,631
Housing76#3,618/14,977
Health55#6,958/15,609
Healthcare62#5,961/15,650
Environment34#10,241/15,453
Education66#5,341/15,649
Infrastructure48#8,099/15,650
Community80#3,109/15,651
Leisure & amenities51#7,720/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Evansville, Wisconsin ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Rock 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

Child poverty rate · low0.6%
96/100Wisconsin 12.2%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.346
96/100Wisconsin 0.444United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Rent as share of income · low22.6%
94/100Wisconsin 27.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.5%
94/100Wisconsin 6.4%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Rent-burdened households · low38.5%
94/100Wisconsin 43.7%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
High school diploma or higher · high96.4%
91/100Wisconsin 93.6%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high40.1%
9/100Wisconsin 30.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRock County value
Injury deaths · high128 /100k
10/100Wisconsin 101 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRock County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,889 /100k
11/100Wisconsin 2,596 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRock County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.77%
12/100Wisconsin 1.32%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Suicide rate · high19.5 /100k
25/100Wisconsin 16.7 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataRock County value
Comfortable days · low24.0%
25/100Wisconsin 24.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationRock County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
5,312 (2015-2019) → 5,782 (2020-2024)
+8.8%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
6.4 /1k (2021) → 0.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−92%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
80.9% (2015-2019) → 90.0% (2020-2024)
+9.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
27.4% (2015-2019) → 35.0% (2020-2024)
+7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.6× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
42.8% (2015-2019) → 38.5% (2020-2024)
−4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Evansville, Wisconsin improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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

Property tax−0.5 points2.30% → 1.77%
Broadband+9.1 points80.9% → 90.0%

Declined1

Price / income+0.8×2.6× → 3.4×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Evansville, Wisconsin between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.9 min2015-2019	26.9 min2020-2024	−2.0 min	Within the margin of error	70%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.4%2015-2019	35.0%2020-2024	+7.6 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Broadband subscriptions	80.9%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	+9.1 points	Improved	55%
Effective property tax rate	2.30%2015-2019	1.77%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Improved	92%
High school diploma or higher	96.7%2015-2019	96.4%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.8×	Declined	33%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3492015-2019	0.3462020-2024	−0.003	Within the margin of error	53%
Median household income	$70,8282015-2019	$81,1492020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	23%
Poverty rate	5.2%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.4%2015-2019	22.6%2020-2024	−3.8 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Rent-burdened households	42.8%2015-2019	38.5%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	70%

“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 Evansville, Wisconsin five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Evansville, Wisconsin 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, Evansville, Wisconsin itself moved +2.3 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

5,782 residents (±29)

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

2,607 households (±185)

Evansville, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Under $25k8.9%†232
$25k–50k12%†313
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,607 households (±185)

Evansville, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Own69%1,788
Rent31%819

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

3,257 workers (±349)

Evansville, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Drive alone78%2,546
Carpool6.6%†216
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 Janesville-Beloit, WI

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 Rock County, the county holding most of Evansville's residents.

Rock County has 3,362 employer establishments, 204 for every 10,000 residents (0.82× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Wisconsin's), with 64,537 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,638. The Census Bureau also counts 9,454 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,362; 9,454 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 204; US 248 · Wisconsin 244
Paid employees: 64,537
Average annual pay: $59,638; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	256	15.6	1.00×About typical	1,751	$97,786	728
Restaurants and other eating places	249	15.1	0.82×About typical	4,879	$19,311	42
Ambulatory health care services	175	10.6	0.51×Fewer than typical	2,998	$86,967	291
Lessors of real estate	126	7.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	429	$75,224	974
Truck transportation	120	7.3	1.44×More than typical	1,955	$68,302	235
Full-service restaurants	118	7.2	0.93×About typical	2,053	$21,865	18
Services to buildings and dwellings	112	6.8	1.01×About typical	633	$31,937	576
Limited-service restaurants	107	6.5	0.81×About typical	2,595	$17,365	15
Building equipment contractors	95	5.8	0.96×About typical	815	$72,193	77
Religious organizations	94	5.7	1.03×About typical	661	$18,744	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	89	5.4	1.07×About typical	433	$45,536	139
Construction of buildings	86	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	963	$95,768	326

Rank places for an industry Open Rock County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 164,619 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 Evansville, Wisconsin: $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

5.1KFY2017
7.3KFY2018
4.8KFY2019
22.3KFY2020
8.7KFY2021
7.2KFY2022
4.9KFY2023
3.6KFY2024

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 Evansville, Wisconsin, so they do not add up across cities.

Evansville, Wisconsin's figures are part of those of Rock County, WI ($337.9M 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: Evansville is mostly in Rock County.

See federal money in Rock 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.

Evansville, Wisconsin is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Rock County71100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Janesville-Beloit, WI72

Other cities and towns in Rock 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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