Locke TownshipIN
A town of 4,301, settled in 1847.
Is Locke Township a good place to live?
Locke Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $249K, 3.6 years of the Elkhart metro’s $69K median household income. It grades A overall, 79th of 585 graded towns in Indiana. On the plus side, its public schools beat 95% of Indiana towns on state tests and graduation. On hazard risk, just 9 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do better. Locke Township is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. Only 5 of the 593 Indiana towns we compare have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Locke Township.
What makes Locke Township stand out
Where Locke Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Pine View | 1–8 | 38 |
| Weldy Amish School | 1–8 | 37 |
| Country Echos | 1–8 | 31 |
Every workday, about 2,686 people come to Locke Township for work
Where Locke Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Locke Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Locke Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Locke Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Locke 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 Locke Township.
Locke Township pairs an A+ for schools with modest home prices, carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Indiana (mostly inland flooding) and draws workers from Nappanee and beyond.
Locke Township’s grade for schools is an A+
Its A+ for schools comes with a B for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $249K. Its A+ ranks #22 of the 592 Indiana towns we grade for schools.
Two of its 5 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine View PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 38 | – |
| United Christian School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 99 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
About one in seven working residents works right in Locke Township
2,939 jobs are based in Locke Township, 1.6 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 1,726 in 2013 to 2,939.
Most working residents leave Locke Township for work: only 14% work in town. Locke Township’s average trip to work is 19 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Since 2013, Locke Township has added 1,213 jobs, to 2,939 in 2023.
| Locke Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Locke Township stands out in Indiana and nationally: the FEMA risk score there is lower
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 100% of Indiana towns; that rating is what its A+ for hazard risk is built on.
Locke Township’s FEMA risk score is 3 of 100, where Indiana’s towns sit at 38 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Locke Township are less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns
Against the 10,175 U.S. towns with household incomes like Locke Township’s, it is less healthy than 85%, so it trails even them.
Locke Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 20% of adults report frequent mental distress in Locke Township.
| Locke Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 32% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| What stands out | Locke Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults in frequent mental distress | 19.9% | 17.6% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 74.6% | 77.4% |
| Fewer adults getting cholesterol checked | 83.1% | 85.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Locke Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.2% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. West Side Park | — | 6 |
| 2. South Park | 0.2 mi | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Locke Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Locke Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 17° and about 45 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Notre Dame Stadium and 9 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Locke Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaNotre Dame Stadium
19 mi CaveGrotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Notre Dame
26 mi Ancient siteFort St. Joseph
18 mi MuseumStudebaker National Museum16 mi Zoo & aquariumPotawatomi Zoo
18 mi MuseumRaclin Murphy Museum of ArtPhoto 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 · Raclin Murphy Museum of Art: Swanyay, CC0
Everything we know about Locke Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Locke Township
About 2 of every 100 Locke Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Locke Township has grown 11% since 2010
3,913 counted in 2010 and 4,328 in 2020; an estimated 4,301 in 2025.
Growth has leveled off: within 1% of 2020, after 10.6% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
About Locke Township
Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States
Locke is an unincorporated community in Locke Township, Elkhart County, Indiana.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Elevation
- 876 ft
Locke Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Locke Township.
It grades higher overall than all 4 graded towns on its borders; Union Township (A−) comes closest.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locke Township | #79 | A | B | — | A+ | C |
| Scott Township | — | — | B− | — | A+ | C− |
| Union Township | #112 | A− | B− | — | A+ | C |
| Nappanee | #196 | B+ | B− | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Madison Township | — | — | B+ | — | A+ | C |
| Olive Township | #156 | A− | B+ | — | A+ | C |
| German Township | #307 | B | B | — | B+ | C− |
Scott Township and Madison Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Locke Township, Scott Township, Union Township, Madison Township, Olive Township and German Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Locke Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Locke Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Locke Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Locke Township grades A overall, better than 88% of U.S. towns and #79 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C for health and A+ for schools.
Is Locke Township, IN expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.