Cates, IN population, income and housing data

Cates CDP is a very small community in Indiana, with 110 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #836 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 14% of them. The median age here is 61.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Cates CDP earn a median of $11,540 a year, 85.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 81% below the $61,527 median for the 355 Indiana cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 100% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cates CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 18.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 61.3 puts Cates CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 110 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cates CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Cates CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.