Brown TownshipIN
A town of 1,670.
Is Brown Township a good place to live?
The best of Brown Township’s subject grades are an A+ for cost of living, an A for schools, and an A− for incomes; the weakest is a C for walkability. 95% of households own their home in Brown Township, above both Indiana’s towns (76%) and U.S. towns (73%). The biggest place to walk is Shades State Park, 1,484 acres with 12.5 miles of trail. Brown Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Brown Township stand out
Where Brown Township beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Brown Township for work
Where Brown Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Brown Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Brown Township is from typical.
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Moving to Brown Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Brown Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Brown Township.
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Brown Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Brown Township for work: only 2% work in town. At $102,000, Brown Township’s median household income is above both the Indiana town median ($71,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). Since 2013, Brown Township has lost 81 jobs, to 77 in 2023.
| Brown Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $102,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.7% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.1% | 11% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Brown Township is less healthy than 68% of U.S. towns
Brown Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 17% of Brown Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Brown Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 39% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 37% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 26% | 23% |
| What stands out | Brown Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 8.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Brown Township faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 69% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Brown Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Brown Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 18° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
An age mix much like Indiana’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Indiana average. Brown Township has grown 2.5% since 2020, to 1,670 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 22% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 30% across Indiana.
| Brown Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 22% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
39% women, 61% men
About 154 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.4 points). Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Brown Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.7% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 12.1% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.7% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.2% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.5% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.8% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.5% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.7% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 47.1% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 16% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.5% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 16.6% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 5.1% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
| Brown Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 5.1% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Shades State Park | 12.5 mi | 1,484 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Ross–Ade Stadium and 14 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brown Township. Close and well known come first.
36 mi Stadium & arenaRoss–Ade Stadium
11 mi State parkTurkey Run State Park
38 mi GardenEagle Creek Park
15 mi MuseumRopkey Armor Museum
11 mi MuseumGeneral Lew Wallace Study
37 mi MuseumSamaraPhoto credits
Ross–Ade Stadium: Tstuddud at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Turkey Run State Park: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Eagle Creek Park: Rogerd, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ropkey Armor Museum: John Schanlaub, CC BY 3.0 · General Lew Wallace Study: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samara: Tim Musson, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Everything we know about Brown Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Brown Township
About 9 of every 100 Brown Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Brown Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Brown Township is one of eleven townships in Montgomery County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,617 (down from 1,719 at 2010) and it contained 705 housing units.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 54 sq mi
- Elevation
- 814 ft
Brown Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Brown Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Township | — | — | A+ | — | A | C |
| Ripley Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Russell Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scott Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Union Township | #129 | A− | A | — | A | C− |
| Greene Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Howard Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Brown Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Brown Township and Union Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Ripley Township, Russell Township, Scott Township, Greene Township and Howard Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Brown Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Brown Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Brown Township, IN expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.