Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,616 residents make their home in this town in Indiana.
Posey Township’s best subject grades are an A− for cost of living and history; its weakest is a D− for incomes. 25% of residents live below the poverty line in Posey Township, against 10% in Indiana’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Only 4 of Indiana’s 1,096 towns score lower on incomes. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. Merit-Tandy Farmstead is on the National Register of Historic Places. Posey Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Posey Township beats most towns.
1,779 counted in 2010 and 1,576 in 2020; an estimated 1,616 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Posey Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,253 in 1890, 1,576 in 2020. The archive holds a map from 1981 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Posey 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 Posey Township.
Just over two in five adults have high blood pressure in Posey Township. The share of adults in Posey Township who smoke cigarettes: 20%.
| Posey Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Posey Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.4% | 8.1% |
| More smokers | 19.8% | 15.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.4% | 6.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Since 2013, Posey Township has lost 24 jobs, to 149 in 2023. Just 3% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. In Posey Township, the average commute is 31 minutes. For half of commuters, work is under 23 miles away.
| Posey Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $51,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.7% | 11% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect July afternoons of 86° and January nights of 24°, with about 7 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The risk rating from FEMA for Posey Township comes to 60 of 100. Since 1978, 48 flood insurance claims have been paid out here. 53% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 23%.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
4.0 miles of trail. Posey Township’s concentration of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Posey Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.6% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Posey Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
25 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
17 mi MuseumCreation Museum1.2M visitors a year
26 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
27 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
26 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumArk Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · 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
1 within 15 miles of the center of Posey Township
About 1 of every 100 Posey Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Where Posey Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Township in Indiana, United States
Posey Township is one of six townships in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,576 and it contained 653 housing units.
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5 towns share a border with Posey Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Posey Township | — | — | A− | — | C+ | C− |
| York Township | — | — | A+ | — | C+ | D |
| Cotton Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | C− |
| Patriot | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Randolph Township | #436 | C+ | A | — | C+ | C |
Posey Township, York Township and Cotton Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Posey Township, York Township, Cotton Township and Randolph Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Patriot isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Posey 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 A−.
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