ZIP code 47280

ZIP 47280 is a very small community in Bartholomew County, Indiana, with 978 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #591 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 34 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 ZIP 47280 earn a median of $48,640 a year, 38.1% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 43.8% 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 ZIP 47280 is valued at $179,400, 40.9% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,133 a month, 19.4% below the national figure, or roughly $13,596 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 65.9% 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.

With 978 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 47280 against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.

ZIP 47280 is tabulated inside Bartholomew County, Indiana, one of 9 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 807 across Indiana. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 47280 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 47280 reports a median household income of $48,640, 34% below the $73,595 county median, and 29% below the $68,990 typical IN ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $179,400, close to the county figure and 7% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,133 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Indiana charges 7% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 47280.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 47280 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.