What is the population of Dayton town?

Dayton town has 1,049 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #347 of 976 in Indiana.

What is the median household income in Dayton town?

Median household income in Dayton town is $74,417 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Dayton town?

Median gross rent is $956 a month and the median home value is $169,500, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.

Is Dayton town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Dayton town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Dayton, IN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Dayton, Indiana (Dayton, IN — Census place “Dayton town”) is 1,049 residents, ranking #347 of 976 places in Indiana. Median household income is $74,417, the median home is worth $169,500 and median gross rent runs $956 a month. Looking for the Dayton Indiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Dayton, IN: 47941.

Population: 1,049Dayton town residents
Median household income: $74,417Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $169,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $956Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 33.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 78.3%Owner-occupied households

Dayton ZIP codes (Indiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Dayton.

The Dayton IN ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

47941

What the numbers mean in Dayton town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Dayton town median would spend about 15.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 10.5% of residents and 78.3% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Dayton town, IN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Dayton town is a small town in Indiana, with 1,049 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #347 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 64% of them. The median age here is 33.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Dayton town earn a median of $74,417 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% above 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 10.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dayton town is valued at $169,500, 44.1% below the national figure and 16% above the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $956 a month, 32% below the national figure, or roughly $11,472 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 78.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Dayton town?: Dayton town has 1,049 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #347 of 976 in Indiana.
What is the median household income in Dayton town?: Median household income in Dayton town is $74,417 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Dayton town?: Median gross rent is $956 a month and the median home value is $169,500, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.
Is Dayton town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Dayton town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Dayton town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.