Salt Creek CommonsIN
A town in Indiana, home to 1,843 people.
Is Salt Creek Commons a good place to live?
The best of Salt Creek Commons’ subject grades are an A for cost of living and schools; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 94 of Indiana’s 1,097 towns do worse. On the outdoors, just 6 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do worse. Salt Creek Commons has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Salt Creek Commons for work
Where Salt Creek Commons’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Salt Creek Commons grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Salt Creek Commons is from typical.
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Soldier Field and 114 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Salt Creek Commons. Close and well known come first.
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw30 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
6 mi National ParkIndiana Dunes National Park2.6M visitors a year
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw36 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Indiana Dunes National Park: J. Crocker, Attribution · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Art Institute of Chicago: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0
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Moving to Salt Creek Commons: who provides what
Salt Creek Commons is unincorporated, so Porter County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Salt Creek Commons.
Salt Creek Commons stands out in Indiana and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
The top destinations are Valparaiso (15%), Portage (10%) and Gary (6%). The mean commuting time for Salt Creek Commons comes to 29 minutes, above both the Indiana town median (24 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). In Salt Creek Commons, the typical household income is $94,000. Half of commuters travel less than 11 miles.
| Salt Creek Commons | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.2% | 11% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $94,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.4% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Salt Creek Commons trails 70% of U.S. towns
In Salt Creek Commons, 40% of adults sleep under 7 hours, where Indiana’s towns sit at 37% and U.S. towns at 36%. Against the Indiana average, Salt Creek Commons comes out ahead on 3 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1. For adults in the town, the share who have obesity is 42%.
| Salt Creek Commons | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Salt Creek Commons | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.8% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 5.8% | 6.8% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 72.6% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Salt Creek Commons faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA puts 42% of Salt Creek Commons’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 25% to tornadoes. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 68% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Salt Creek Commons: snowy winters and pleasant summers
Salt Creek Commons’ peak summer temperature stands at 83°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Younger than Indiana overall
People 65 and older are 11% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 27% of residents (23% statewide). In Salt Creek Commons, the median age is 34.8 years. Among adults 25 and older, 22% have a four-year degree or more, against 30% across Indiana.
| Salt Creek Commons | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 11% | 18% | 18% |
| Median age | 34.8 years | 39.4 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 22% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±6 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Salt Creek Commons | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.6% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 17.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10.1% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 16.6% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.3% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.7% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.8% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 1.5% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 41.7% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 16.4% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.3% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 1.6% | 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
A home in Salt Creek Commons sells for about $242K at the median
85% of Salt Creek Commons households own their home. Salt Creek Commons’ rent at the middle of the market comes in at $1,388 a month.
| Salt Creek Commons | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,388 a month | $947 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Salt Creek Commons
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Salt Creek Commons
About 6 of every 100 Salt Creek Commons residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
About Salt Creek Commons
Census-designated place in Indiana, United States
Salt Creek Commons is a census-designated place (CDP) in Union Township, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, Salt Creek Commons had a population of 1,979.
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- Area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 666 ft
- Area code
- 219
Questions about Salt Creek Commons
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Salt Creek Commons, IN expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $198,000, 23% below the Indiana typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.