What is the population of Eaton town?

Eaton town has 1,656 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #266 of 976 in Indiana.

What is the median household income in Eaton town?

Median household income in Eaton town is $49,076 a year, 37.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $688 a month and the median home value is $85,600, so rent absorbs about 16.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Eaton town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Eaton, IN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Eaton, Indiana (Eaton, IN — Census place “Eaton town”) is 1,656 residents, ranking #266 of 976 places in Indiana. Median household income is $49,076, the median home is worth $85,600 and median gross rent runs $688 a month. Looking for the Eaton Indiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Eaton, IN: 47338.

Population: 1,656Eaton town residents
Median household income: $49,076Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $85,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $688Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 72.3%Owner-occupied households

Eaton ZIP codes (Indiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Eaton.

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

47338

What the numbers mean in Eaton town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Eaton town median would spend about 16.8% 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 1.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 11.5% of residents and 72.3% of households own their home.

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

Eaton town, IN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Eaton town is a small town in Indiana, with 1,656 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #266 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 37.4 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 Eaton town earn a median of $49,076 a year, 37.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% 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 11.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Eaton town is valued at $85,600, 71.8% below the national figure and 41% below the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $688 a month, 51.1% below the national figure, or roughly $8,256 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.8% 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 1.7×, 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. 72.3% 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.

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

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What is the population of Eaton town?: Eaton town has 1,656 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #266 of 976 in Indiana.
What is the median household income in Eaton town?: Median household income in Eaton town is $49,076 a year, 37.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Eaton town?: Median gross rent is $688 a month and the median home value is $85,600, so rent absorbs about 16.8% of median household income.
Is Eaton town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Eaton town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Eaton 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.