Metro area · Indiana

Evansville, IN metro area

Evansville, IN is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Indiana, home to 273,786 residents. Evansville, IN metro area has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #350 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Indiana it ranks #8 of 37. It ranks best on flu vaccinations (high), mammography screening (high) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on violent crime rate (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and comfortable days (low).

62High
Quality-of-life score
#350 of 925 metro and micro areas
Indiana
#8 of 37 in IN
Population
273,786 (2025)
Land area
1,027 mi²
Density
266.5 /mi²
CBSA code
21780

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 Evansville, IN metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety29#658/924
  • Economy65#326/925
  • Housing71#267/925
  • Health46#500/925
  • Healthcare73#247/923
  • Environment7#853/917
  • Education72#261/925
  • Infrastructure72#258/925
  • Community77#209/925
  • Leisure & amenities58#392/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Evansville, 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 Evansville, IN metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Evansville, 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 Evansville, 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. Vanderburgh CountyCentral county51181,995
  2. Warrick CountyCentral county8266,803
  3. Posey CountyOutlying county6624,988

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. EvansvillePrincipal city116,116

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. Evansville116,116
  2. Boonville6,702
  3. Mount Vernon6,400
  4. Highland5,114
  5. Chandler3,978
  6. Newburgh3,395
  7. Melody Hill3,243
  8. Darmstadt1,508
  9. Poseyville1,270
  10. Lynnville981
  11. Elberfeld971
  12. St. Wendel923
  13. New Harmony845
  14. Cynthiana716
  15. Wadesville672
  16. Parkers Settlement605
  17. Stewartsville206
  18. Blairsville203
  19. Tennyson165
  20. Griffin148
  21. Folsomville130

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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