Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,447.
Pine Township’s best subject grades are an A for the outdoors and civic life and an A− for history; its weakest is a C for health. 36% of residents are 65 or older in Pine Township, above both Indiana’s towns (18%) and U.S. towns (18%). Of the 594 Indiana towns we compare, none has a higher median age than Pine Township. Homes are within reach, about $331K for a typical one, or 3.6 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. 22% of the land in Pine Township is conserved, against 1.9% in Indiana’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 11 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do better. The biggest place to walk is Indiana Dunes National Park, 3,499 acres with 10.8 miles of trail. Pine Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Pine Township beats most towns.
Weller HouseWhere Pine 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 Pine Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 596 in 1890, a peak of 3,311 in 1980, 2,483 in 2020. The archive holds 4 maps from 1953 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pine Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
in town National ParkIndiana Dunes National Park2.6M visitors a year
Big draw34 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw40 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw38 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearSoldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Indiana Dunes National Park: J. Crocker, Attribution · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Art Institute of Chicago: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pine 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 Pine Township.
13% of residents are under 18 in Pine Township. People 65 and older are 36% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 12% of residents (23% statewide). 37% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Pine Township.
| Pine Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 13% | 23% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 22% | 29% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.6 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Pine Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.1% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3.1% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.7% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8.4% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.2% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 19.7% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 22.4% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 13.4% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 10.2% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.5% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5.9% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.7% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.6% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,400, single groups can be off by several points
Its public schools are run by the Michigan City Area Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 396 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Pine Township for work: only 4% work in town. Pine Township’s average trip to work is 35 minutes. Jobs based in Pine Township grew to 476 in 2023, 190 more than in 2013.
| Pine Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.6% | 11% | 8% |
| Work from home | 11% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 10% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Pine Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 43% of Pine Township adults have high blood pressure.
| Pine Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 39% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 12% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 16% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Pine Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with diabetes | 15.1% | 13% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 9.7% | 8.4% |
| More adults with heart disease | 7.8% | 6.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
18 miles of trail in 12 parks and preserves. The trail density in Pine Township is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Indiana Dunes National Park | 10.8 mi | 3,499 |
| 2. Dale B Engquist Nature Preserve | 2.1 mi | 276 |
| 3. Heron Rookery | 1.7 mi | 461 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Pine Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 18° and about 40 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1 within 15 miles of the center of Pine Township
About 2 of every 100 Pine Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Township in Indiana, United States
Pine Township is one of twelve townships in Porter County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,709. It is the least populated of the townships of Porter County.
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4 towns share a border with Pine Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Township | — | — | B+ | — | B+ | C |
| Westchester Township | #74 | A | B | — | A | B− |
| Jackson Township | #98 | A | B+ | — | A | C |
| Beverly Shores | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Coolspring Township | #528 | C− | B+ | — | C | C− |
Pine Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Pine Township, Westchester Township, Jackson Township and Coolspring Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Beverly Shores isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Pine Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
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 B+.
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