What is the population of Paoli town?

Paoli town has 3,274 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #168 of 976 in Indiana.

What is the median household income in Paoli town?

Median household income in Paoli town is $45,926 a year, 41.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $827 a month and the median home value is $134,300, so rent absorbs about 21.6% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Paoli town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Paoli, IN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Paoli, Indiana (Paoli, IN — Census place “Paoli town”) is 3,274 residents, ranking #168 of 976 places in Indiana. Median household income is $45,926, the median home is worth $134,300 and median gross rent runs $827 a month. Looking for the Paoli Indiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Paoli, IN: 47454.

Population: 3,274Paoli town residents
Median household income: $45,926Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $134,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $827Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 62%Owner-occupied households

Paoli ZIP codes (Indiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Paoli.

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

47454

What the numbers mean in Paoli town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Paoli town median would spend about 21.6% 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 2.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 21.5% of residents and 62% of households own their home.

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

Paoli town, IN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Paoli town is a small town in Indiana, with 3,274 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #168 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 36.3 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 Paoli town earn a median of $45,926 a year, 41.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 25% 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 21.5% 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 Paoli town is valued at $134,300, 55.7% below the national figure and 8% below the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $827 a month, 41.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,924 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 Paoli town?: Paoli town has 3,274 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #168 of 976 in Indiana.
What is the median household income in Paoli town?: Median household income in Paoli town is $45,926 a year, 41.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Paoli town?: Median gross rent is $827 a month and the median home value is $134,300, so rent absorbs about 21.6% of median household income.
Is Paoli town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Paoli town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Paoli 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.