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A town of 2,060.
The best of Dallas Township’s subject grades are an A for cost of living and an A+ for history; the weakest is a D for walkability. Dallas Township’s median rent is $692 a month, against $947 a month in Indiana’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 64 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do worse. Young-Yentes-Mattern Farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. Dallas Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Dallas Township beats most towns.
Where Dallas Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Dallas Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2008 and 3 maps from 1950 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Dallas 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Dallas Township.
Most working residents leave Dallas Township for work: only 2% work in town. 5% of residents live below the poverty line in Dallas Township, where Indiana’s towns sit at 10% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Jobs based in Dallas Township grew to 118 in 2023, 28 more than in 2013.
| Dallas Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 11% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 5% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by Huntington Co Com School Corp. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrews Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 290 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Dallas Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 42% of Dallas Township adults have high blood pressure.
| Dallas Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 12% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Dallas Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with arthritis | 32.3% | 28.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| More adults with heart disease | 7.7% | 6.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Dallas Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 19° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 52% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
2 within 15 miles of the center of Dallas Township
About 4 of every 100 Dallas Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Township in Indiana, United States
Dallas Township is one of 12 townships in Huntington County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,041 (down from 2,114 at 2010) and it contained 890 housing units.
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4 towns share a border with Dallas Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Township | — | — | A | — | B | C |
| Huntington Township | #272 | B | A | — | B | C |
| Lagro Township | #483 | C | A− | — | C+ | C+ |
| Polk Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Warren Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Dallas Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Dallas Township, Huntington Township and Lagro Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Polk Township and Warren Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Dallas Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
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.
