Paragon, IN population, income and ZIP codes

Paragon town is a very small community in Indiana, with 564 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #482 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 42.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Paragon town earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 21.2% 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 Paragon town is valued at $90,700, 70.1% below the national figure and 38% below the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $979 a month, 30.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,748 across a full year. 73.6% 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.

With 564 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Paragon town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Paragon town 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.