What is the population of Rensselaer city?

Rensselaer city has 5,369 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 976 in Indiana.

What is the median household income in Rensselaer city?

Median household income in Rensselaer city is $61,648 a year, 21.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Rensselaer city?

Median gross rent is $868 a month and the median home value is $149,100, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.

Is Rensselaer city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Rensselaer city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Rensselaer, IN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana (Rensselaer, IN — Census place “Rensselaer city”) is 5,369 residents, ranking #124 of 976 places in Indiana. Median household income is $61,648, the median home is worth $149,100 and median gross rent runs $868 a month. Looking for the Rensselaer Indiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Rensselaer, IN: 47978.

Population: 5,369Rensselaer city residents
Median household income: $61,648Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $149,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $868Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 66.7%Owner-occupied households

Rensselaer ZIP codes (Indiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Rensselaer.

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

47978

What the numbers mean in Rensselaer city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Rensselaer city median would spend about 16.9% 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 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7.5% of residents and 66.7% of households own their home.

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

Rensselaer city, IN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Rensselaer city is a mid-size town in Indiana, with 5,369 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #124 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 36.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Rensselaer city earn a median of $61,648 a year, 21.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 7.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rensselaer city is valued at $149,100, 50.9% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $868 a month, 38.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,416 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% 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 2.4×, 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. 66.7% 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

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Rensselaer city?: Rensselaer city has 5,369 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 976 in Indiana.
What is the median household income in Rensselaer city?: Median household income in Rensselaer city is $61,648 a year, 21.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Rensselaer city?: Median gross rent is $868 a month and the median home value is $149,100, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.
Is Rensselaer city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Rensselaer city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Rensselaer city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.