
Indiana · Census place 85598
Worthington, IN population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Worthington, Indiana (Worthington, IN — Census place “Worthington town”) is 1,634 residents, ranking #267 of 976 places in Indiana. Median household income is $41,534, the median home is worth $67,600 and median gross rent runs $535 a month. Looking for the Worthington Indiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Worthington, IN: 47471.
- Population
- 1,634Worthington town residents
- Median household income
- $41,534Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $67,600Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $535Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 34.7 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 79%Owner-occupied households
Worthington ZIP codes (Indiana)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Worthington.
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What the numbers mean in Worthington town
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Worthington town median would spend about 15.5% 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 1.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 25.2% of residents and 79% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Worthington town, IN in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Worthington town is a small town in Indiana, with 1,634 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #267 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 34.7 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 Worthington town earn a median of $41,534 a year, 47.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 32% 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 25.2% 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 Worthington town is valued at $67,600, 77.7% below the national figure and 54% below the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $535 a month, 61.9% below the national figure, or roughly $6,420 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.5% 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 1.6×, 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. 79% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.
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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Indiana.
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- Westport town 1,666
- Galena CDP 1,618
- Foxcliff Estates CDP 1,693
- Greenville town 1,602
- Arcadia town 1,696
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Worthington town?
- Worthington town has 1,634 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #267 of 976 in Indiana.
- What is the median household income in Worthington town?
- Median household income in Worthington town is $41,534 a year, 47.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Worthington town?
- Median gross rent is $535 a month and the median home value is $67,600, so rent absorbs about 15.5% of median household income.
- Is Worthington town affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 1.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Worthington town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Worthington 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.