Metro area · Indiana

Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area

Elkhart-Goshen, IN is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Indiana, home to 208,774 residents. Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area has a quality-of-life score of 30 out of 100 (low), ranking #650 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Indiana it ranks #31 of 37. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), drought exposure (low) and injury deaths (low). It ranks worst on some college (low), adult obesity (high) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high).

30Low
Quality-of-life score
#650 of 925 metro and micro areas
Indiana
#31 of 37 in IN
Population
208,774 (2025)
Land area
463 mi²
Density
450.8 /mi²
CBSA code
21140

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety46#499/924
  • Economy61#362/925
  • Housing57#396/925
  • Health45#512/925
  • Healthcare27#670/923
  • Environment7#854/917
  • Education12#818/925
  • Infrastructure64#330/925
  • Community34#615/925
  • Leisure & amenities20#737/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area 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.

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).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

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

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Elkhart-Goshen, IN

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Elkhart CountyCentral county41208,774

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. ElkhartPrincipal city53,733
  2. GoshenPrincipal city34,420

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Elkhart53,733
  2. Goshen34,420
  3. Nappanee6,815
  4. Dunlap6,109
  5. Simonton Lake4,248
  6. Middlebury3,700
  7. Wakarusa2,282
  8. Bristol2,128
  9. New Paris1,549
  10. Millersburg1,077
  11. Benton384
  12. Vistula90

Other metro and micro areas in Indiana

Areas based in Indiana, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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