Cree Lake, IN population, income and housing data

Cree Lake CDP is a very small community in Indiana, with 241 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #673 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 60.1 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 Cree Lake CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 28.2% 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 Cree Lake CDP is valued at $232,700, 23.3% below the national figure and 60% above the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 76.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 60.1 puts Cree Lake 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 241 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cree Lake CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Cree Lake 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.