County · Indiana

Warren County, Indiana

Warren County, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 69 out of 100 (high), ranking #973 of 3,143 US counties. Within Indiana it ranks #13 of 92 counties. It ranks best on property crime rate (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on arts, entertainment and recreation (low), pharmacies (low) and dentists (low).

69High
Quality-of-life score
#973 of 3,143 counties
Indiana
#13 of 92 in IN
Population
8,474 (2025)
Land area
365 mi²
Density
23.2 /mi²
FIPS code
18171

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Warren County, Indiana

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety70#923/3,096
  • Economy81#589/3,143
  • Housing98#54/3,140
  • Health51#1,529/3,144
  • Healthcare58#1,314/3,143
  • Environment77#705/3,108
  • Education52#1,521/3,144
  • Infrastructure65#1,089/3,144
  • Community54#1,455/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities5#2,997/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Warren County, Indiana ranks highest and lowest among US counties (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.

Counties like Warren County, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Warren County, 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.

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.

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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, 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.

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.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area Warren County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

Cities and towns in Warren County

Places whose residents live mostly in Warren County, largest first.

  1. Williamsport1,867
  2. West Lebanon789
  3. Pine Village239
  4. Green Hill234
  5. Judyville118
  6. State Line City103
  7. Foster100
  8. Kramer64
  9. Marshfield62
  10. Independence20
  11. Hedrick10
  12. Rainsville6
  13. Pence0
  14. Tab0

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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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