Fall Creek TownshipHenry County, IN
A town of 4,685. Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Is Fall Creek Township a good place to live?
Fall Creek Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $174K for a typical one, or 2.8 years of the New Castle area’s $63K median household income. It grades A overall, 100th of 585 graded towns in Indiana. On the plus side, its schools outperform 80% of the state's. Fall Creek Township’s average commute is 31 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Smith-Crisler Nature Preserve, at 40 acres.
What makes Fall Creek Township stand out
Where Fall Creek Township beats most towns.
89% of working residents leave Fall Creek Township for work
Where Fall Creek Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fall Creek Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Fall Creek Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Fall Creek Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fall Creek 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 Fall Creek Township.
Fall Creek Township pairs an A− for schools with modest home prices and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally, but it has little public open land.
Fall Creek Township earns an A− for schools
That grade comes with an A− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $175K.
Its public schools are run by Shenandoah School Corporation. Below: Two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked. The largest public high school is Shenandoah High School, with 405 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 630 | B+ |
| Shenandoah High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 405 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Fall Creek Township has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs based here fell from 1,190 in 2013 to 879. The average commute for its 1,633 working residents takes 31.2 minutes, against 24.1 across Indiana.
The top destinations are Anderson (20%), Indianapolis (10%) and Muncie (9%). Commuting out is the norm in Fall Creek Township: just over a tenth of working residents work locally. This Indiana town had 879 jobs in 2023, down 311 from 2013. For residents locally, the share who live below the poverty line is 6.7%.
| Fall Creek Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6.7% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 10% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Median household income | $69,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fall Creek Township: four seasons and pleasant summers
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 20°, and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fall Creek Township is less healthy than 60% of U.S. towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 60% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures.
Among adults in Fall Creek Township, 11% worry about having enough food. CDC measures, 32 in all: Fall Creek Township beats Indiana on 6 and trails on 2. Just over two in five adults in the town have obesity; 26% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Fall Creek Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 26% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 39% | 35% |
| What stands out | Fall Creek Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.2% | 8.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.1% | 14.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest natural risk in Fall Creek Township is inland flooding, at a moderate overall level
The risk rating from FEMA in Fall Creek Township is 49 of 100. 3 flood insurance claims have been paid in the town since 2010. FEMA puts 58% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 27% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Open space protected for good: 0.4% of Fall Creek Township
Just 78 of its 19,401 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Fall Creek Township itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
Trails run 0.6 miles in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Smith-Crisler Nature Preserve | — | 40 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Lucas Oil Stadium and 35 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fall Creek Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaLucas Oil Stadium
38 mi Stadium & arenaGainbridge Fieldhouse
36 mi Stadium & arenaHinkle Fieldhouse
38 mi LandmarkSoldiers' and Sailors' Monument
26 mi MuseumConner Prairie
37 mi MuseumIndianapolis Museum of Art428K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Lucas Oil Stadium: Josh Hallett from Winter Haven, FL, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Gainbridge Fieldhouse: Durin at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hinkle Fieldhouse: Peetlesnumber1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: alexeatswhales, CC BY 2.0 · Conner Prairie: Unknown, CC BY 2.5 · Indianapolis Museum of Art: No machine-readable author provided. Cszmurlo assumed (based on copyright claims, CC BY 3.0
Everything we know about Fall Creek Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Fall Creek Township
About 2 of every 100 Fall Creek Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Fall Creek Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Fall Creek Township is one of thirteen townships in Henry County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,612 and it contained 1,953 housing units. Fall Creek Township was organized in 1829. It was named for the stream which runs through it.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 31 sq mi
- Elevation
- 984 ft
Fall Creek Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Fall Creek Township.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Adams Township (A−) comes closest.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Creek Township | #100 | A | A− | — | A− | C+ |
| Harrison Township | — | — | B | — | A− | C− |
| Salem Township | #345 | B− | B | — | B | C+ |
| Jefferson Township | — | — | A | — | A− | C |
| Adams Township | #178 | A− | A− | — | B+ | B− |
| Union Township | #360 | B− | A+ | — | C− | C+ |
Harrison Township and Jefferson Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Fall Creek Township, Harrison Township, Salem Township, Jefferson Township, Adams Township and Union Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Fall Creek Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Fall Creek Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fall Creek Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Fall Creek Township grades A overall, better than 85% of U.S. towns and #100 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C+ for health and A− for schools.
Is Fall Creek 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−.