Metro area · Indiana

Terre Haute, IN metro area

Terre Haute, IN is a metropolitan area of 4 counties in Indiana, home to 169,241 residents. Terre Haute, IN metro area has a quality-of-life score of 21 out of 100 (low), ranking #733 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Indiana it ranks #35 of 37. It ranks best on cost of buying a home today (low), distance to an emergency room (low) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on new homes permitted (low), preventable hospital stays (high) and comfortable days (low).

21Low
Quality-of-life score
#733 of 925 metro and micro areas
Indiana
#35 of 37 in IN
Population
169,241 (2025)
Land area
1,465 mi²
Density
115.5 /mi²
CBSA code
45460

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 Terre Haute, IN metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety34#610/924
  • Economy14#800/925
  • Housing48#483/925
  • Health18#763/925
  • Healthcare38#570/923
  • Environment12#809/917
  • Education41#544/925
  • Infrastructure35#602/925
  • Community38#570/925
  • Leisure & amenities49#473/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Terre Haute, 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 Terre Haute, IN metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Terre Haute, 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 Terre Haute, 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. Vigo CountyCentral county28106,512
  2. Clay CountyOutlying county4226,410
  3. Sullivan CountyOutlying county2720,831
  4. Vermillion CountyOutlying county4015,488

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Terre HautePrincipal city58,427

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. Terre Haute58,427
  2. Brazil7,831
  3. Clinton4,794
  4. North Terre Haute4,534
  5. Sullivan4,252
  6. West Terre Haute2,092
  7. Fairview Park1,470
  8. Shelburn1,264
  9. Farmersburg1,166
  10. Clay City1,104
  11. Cayuga1,064
  12. Seelyville986
  13. St. Mary of the Woods959
  14. Hymera937
  15. Dugger783
  16. Carlisle726
  17. Dana652
  18. Harmony645
  19. Knightsville642
  20. Tecumseh638
  21. Perrysville607
  22. Lakewood568
  23. Lewis560
  24. St. Bernice554

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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