DunlapIN
A town of 6,109.
Is Dunlap a good place to live?
Dunlap is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B− overall, 343rd of 585 graded towns in Indiana, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $87K. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 65% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $222K, 3.2 years of the Elkhart metro’s $69K median household income. Dunlap’s concentration of trails is 1.4 miles per square mile, above both the Indiana town median (0.2) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Only 57 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns score higher on hazard risk. The biggest place to walk is Ox Bow County Park, 257 acres with 6.6 miles of trail.
What makes Dunlap stand out
Where Dunlap beats most towns.
97% of working residents leave Dunlap for work
Where Dunlap’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Dunlap grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Dunlap is from typical.
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Moving to Dunlap: who provides what
Dunlap is unincorporated, so Elkhart County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Dunlap.
In Dunlap, 6.7% of the land is conserved
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ox Bow County Park | 6.6 mi | 257 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Dunlap stands out in Indiana and nationally: the FEMA risk score there is lower
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 98% of Indiana towns, with expected losses of about $256 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Expected losses in Dunlap break down as 44% from inland flooding and 24% from cold waves.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Dunlap has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For most workers, Dunlap is a place to come home to: only 3% work in town. The average commute for Dunlap comes to 18 minutes, below both Indiana’s towns (24 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). The median commute is under 7 miles. The town had 1,121 jobs in 2023, up 98 from 2013.
| Dunlap | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.1% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 9.7% | 7.8% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Dunlap
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 17°, and about 45 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
For health, Dunlap earns a C+
The share of adults in Dunlap who have obesity: 43%. In Dunlap, 18% of adults report frequent mental distress, and 16% smoke cigarettes.
| Dunlap | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 39% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 8.3% | 8.1% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Dunlap | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 10.7% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
An age mix much like Indiana’s
Just over a quarter of residents are under 18 in Dunlap. The age mix tracks Indiana closely: no broad group is more than 4 points off. The town’s age of the median resident comes in at 39.3 years.
| Dunlap | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 26% | 23% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 24% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.9 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Dunlap | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.4% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.2% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.9% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.6% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.3% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.1% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.6% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 13.1% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 32.5% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 23.7% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.8% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.5% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.4% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
A home in Dunlap sells for about $307K at the median
The median rent for Dunlap comes to $1,271 a month. 96% of Dunlap households own their home. Homes sold in Dunlap spent a median 22 days on the market.
| Dunlap | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 96% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,271 a month | $946 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Notre Dame Stadium and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Dunlap. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaNotre Dame Stadium
17 mi CaveGrotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Notre Dame
21 mi Ancient siteFort St. Joseph
18 mi MuseumStudebaker National Museum
40 mi State parkWarren Dunes State Park15 mi Zoo & aquariumPotawatomi ZooPhoto credits
Notre Dame Stadium: Tysto, Public domain · Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Notre Dame: Know1one1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort St. Joseph: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Studebaker National Museum: Unknown, Public domain · Warren Dunes State Park: hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Dunlap
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Dunlap
About 3 of every 100 Dunlap residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Dunlap
Census-designated place in Indiana, United States
Dunlap is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Dunlap had a population of 6,442. Once a small farming community, by the 1980s it had become a suburb of Elkhart and Goshen, Indiana. Most of the town was destroyed by two violent F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak on April 11, 1965.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 774 ft
- Area code
- 574
Dunlap’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Dunlap.
Dunlap and Elkhart report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Dunlap with a neighbor →
Questions about Dunlap
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Dunlap, IN a good place to live?
Dunlap grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #343 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C+ for health and C+ for schools.
Is Dunlap, IN expensive?
The typical home is worth about $222,000, 14% below the Indiana typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.