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A town of 3,447.
Harrison Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $233K, 2.9 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. It grades B+ overall, ranked 199th of 585 in Indiana. On the plus side, its schools rank ahead of 75% of Indiana towns. On hazard risk, just 87 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do worse.
Where Harrison 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 Harrison Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 10 old photos and papers going back to 1875 and 4 maps from 1955 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Harrison Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw31 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
21 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
12 mi MuseumCreation Museum1.2M visitors a year
21 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
20 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
20 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumKings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Creation Museum: Creashin at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Harrison 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 Harrison Township.
Harrison Township sends many workers across the state line to Harrison and is healthier than towns with similar incomes.
On this, Harrison Township is close to Indiana’s towns (1.9%) and below U.S. towns (4.3%). 3.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Harrison Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.5% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bright Meadows Park | 0.4 mi | 14 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
61% of working residents cross a state line to work, Harrison among the top destinations. Jobs based here grew from 586 in 2013 to 914.
Most working residents leave Harrison Township for work: only 6% work in town. 3.9% of residents live below the poverty line in Harrison Township, below both the Indiana town median (10%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Since 2013, Harrison Township has added 328 jobs, to 914 in 2023.
| Harrison Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 3.9% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.1% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $68,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Harrison Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 22° and about 16 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Adults 18 to 34 are 15% of residents (23% statewide); people 65 and older are 24% of residents (17% statewide). The median age in Harrison Township is 43.2 years. Harrison Township has grown 2.3% since 2020, to 3,447 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Harrison Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 43.2 years | 39.4 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 24% | 22% | 29% |
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.1 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Harrison Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.8% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.7% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.8% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.7% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.4% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.5% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.7% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.4% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 11% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 40.1% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 11.8% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 13.1% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 10.8% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.3% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,400, single groups can be off by several points
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 57% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 10,286 U.S. towns with household incomes like Harrison Township’s, it is healthier than 72%, so its B− isn’t only a matter of income. Within Indiana it is healthier than 76% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures.
Harrison Township beats the Indiana average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 30% of Harrison Township adults feel lonely.
| Harrison Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 80% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Harrison Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.1% | 14.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.2% | 8.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
None within 15 miles of Harrison Township; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Harrison Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
Township in Indiana, United States
Harrison Township is one of fourteen townships in Dearborn County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,204 and it contained 1,338 housing units.
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8 towns share a border with Harrison Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Township | #199 | B+ | A− | — | A− | B− |
| Logan Township | #305 | B | C+ | — | A− | B |
| Whitewater Township | #235 | B+ | A− | — | B+ | B |
| Miller Township | #21 | A+ | A | — | A− | B |
| West Harrison | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bright | #7 | A+ | A− | — | A− | B+ |
| New Trenton | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Harrison Township, Logan Township, Whitewater Township, Miller Township and Bright report no FBI crime data of their own. West Harrison and New Trenton aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Harrison Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Harrison Township grades B+ overall, better than 74% of U.S. towns and #199 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B− for health and A− for schools.
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−.
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