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A town of 1,780.
Prairie Township’s best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D for walkability. Hall Farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. Prairie Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Prairie Township beats most towns.
Where Prairie 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 Prairie Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 855 in 1920, 1,774 in 2020. The archive holds 2 maps from 1959 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Prairie Township, and how to reach them.
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Ordered by what stands out in Prairie Township.
One flood insurance claim has been paid in Prairie Township since 2009. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 84% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Prairie Township break down as 38% from inland flooding and 22% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The share of working residents in Prairie Township who work locally is 1.7%, where Indiana’s towns sit at 11% and U.S. towns at 8%. Jobs here fell by 585 from 2013 to 2023, to 308. Prairie Township: 4.7% of residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Warsaw (26%), Nappanee (7%) and Goshen (4%).
| Prairie Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.7% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 11% | 8% |
| Work from home | 13% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Among adults in Prairie Township, 28% get no exercise outside work. The town tracks Indiana closely on all 32 CDC measures. The share of adults in Prairie Township who smoke cigarettes is 17%, against 17% in Indiana’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns.
| Prairie Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 39% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 13% | 12% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expect July afternoons of 83° and January nights of 17°, with about 32 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Here, 22% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 30% in Indiana as a whole. No age group stands out against Indiana: all are within 4 points. For residents in Prairie Township, the share who are 65 or older is 17%.
| Prairie Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 22% | 22% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 18% | 18% |
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±3.5 points). Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Prairie Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 20.5% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 2.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 15.3% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.4% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.4% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 17.1% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 7% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.8% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 43.6% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.2% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 15% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.2% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 0% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,800, single groups can be off by several points
1 within 15 miles of the center of Prairie Township
About 3 of every 100 Prairie Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Township in Indiana, United States
Prairie Township is one of seventeen townships in Kosciusko County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,774 (up from 1,651 at 2010) and it contained 682 housing units.
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6 towns share a border with Prairie Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Township | — | — | A | — | B+ | C |
| Harrison Township | #177 | A− | A | — | B+ | C |
| Jefferson Township | — | — | A− | — | B+ | C |
| Scott Township | — | — | B− | — | A+ | C− |
| Hoffman Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Etna Township | — | — | A+ | — | A− | C− |
| Plain Township | #335 | B− | B | — | B+ | C |
Prairie Township, Jefferson Township, Scott Township and Etna Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Prairie Township, Harrison Township, Jefferson Township, Scott Township, Etna Township and Plain Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Hoffman Lake isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Prairie 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.