Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Huntingburg gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $247K, 3.3 years of the Jasper area’s $76K median household income. It grades B+ overall, 241st among Indiana's 585 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 89% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household income is $54K, and 16% of residents live below the poverty line. On the plus side, its schools outperform 90% of the state's. On the outdoors, just 52 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do better. 23% of working residents work locally in Huntingburg, against 11% in Indiana’s towns and 8% across U.S. towns. Huntingburg has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Huntingburg Commercial Historic District.
Where Huntingburg beats most towns.
5.1% of the town is conserved land, across 4 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Huntingburg is from typical.
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Census counts: 781 in 1880, 6,362 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1968 and 4 maps from 1954 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Huntingburg, 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 Huntingburg.
Huntingburg City Park, at 38 acres with 1.7 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Walkers can cover 4.3 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. The trail network density for Huntingburg comes to 0.8 miles per square mile.
| Huntingburg | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.1% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Huntingburg City Park | 1.7 mi | 38 |
| 2. Market Street Park | 0.3 mi | 2 |
| 3. Charles Niehaus Memorial Park | — | 20 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Huntingburg: nearly a fifth of adults report frequent mental distress. In Huntingburg, 43% of adults have obesity, and 19% smoke cigarettes.
| Huntingburg | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 8.3% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 21% | 19% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 39% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Huntingburg | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 15% | 8.9% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 20.6% | 14.7% |
| More adults facing housing insecurity | 15.1% | 11.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Huntingburg’s level of property crime comes in at 1.5 per 1,000 residents. The level of violent crime locally is 2.3 per 1,000 residents.
| Huntingburg | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.5 per 1,000 residents | 8.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.3 per 1,000 residents | 1.4 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Huntingburg has about as many jobs (3,400) as working residents, but only 722 people both live and work here.
Roughly one working resident in four has a job in Huntingburg itself. The town’s average commute stands at 19 minutes. The top destinations are Jasper (30%), Ferdinand (7%) and Evansville (4%). Jobs here fell by 199 from 2013 to 2023, to 3,400.
| Huntingburg | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $54,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The national flood insurance program has paid 5 claims in Huntingburg since 1979. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 56% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts just over two fifths of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 30% to earthquakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Home values are up 5.8% over the year to September 2026. For households in Huntingburg, the share who own their home is 64%. Its typical rent is $887 a month.
| Huntingburg | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 64% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $887 a month | $947 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
1 within 15 miles of the center of Huntingburg
About 3 of every 100 Huntingburg residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
2 places in Huntingburg on the National Register of Historic Places.
9 notable people were born in Huntingburg.
City in Indiana, United States
Huntingburg is a city in Patoka Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,362 at the 2020 census. Located in southwestern Indiana, the city is known for its downtown with numerous antique shops. It is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city is also known as the "Hollywood of the Midwest." The movies A League of Their Own (1992), Hard Rain (1998), and the HBO film Soul of the Game (1996) were filmed in Huntingburg. Columbia Pictures renovated the grandstand at League Stadium that was to become part of the set for A League of Their Own.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Huntingburg grades B+ overall, better than 68% of U.S. towns and #241 of 585 in Indiana. It grades D for health, B+ for safety and A for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
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.
9 notable people were born here, including Don Buse and Bob Coleman.
