Sims TownshipIN
A town of 1,668, settled in 1881. Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Is Sims Township a good place to live?
The best of Sims Township’s subject grades is an A− for schools. 24% of residents are 65 or older in Sims Township, above both the Indiana town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). A typical home costs about $164K, 3.1 years of the Marion area’s $54K median household income. Sims Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Sims Township stand out
Where Sims Township beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Sims Township for work
Where Sims Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Sims Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Sims Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Sims Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sims 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 Sims Township.
On state tests, Sims Township’s schools beat 77% of Indiana districts
Its public schools are run by Oak Hill United School Corp. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swayzee Elementary SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–6 | Grades 5–6 | 248 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Most of Sims Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.4 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Sims Township for work: only 2% work in town. Sims Township’s average trip to work is 21 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Sims Township grew to 293 in 2023, 145 more than in 2013.
| Sims Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 11% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Sims Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 75% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sims Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Sims Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 19° and about 25 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Older than Indiana overall
People 65 and older are 25% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide). Sims Township’s median age is 46.7 years. 27% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 30% across Indiana.
| Sims Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.7 years | 39.4 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 20% | 23% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 27% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±3.4 points). Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Sims Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.4% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.1% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.8% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.4% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8.9% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.5% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.4% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.5% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 34.4% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 16.9% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.8% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 16.4% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.6% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
On CDC estimates, Sims Township is less healthy than 57% of U.S. towns
Sims Township beats the Indiana average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 82% of adults had a checkup this year in Sims Township.
| Sims Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 80% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 12% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Sims Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.1% | 14.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.9% | 8.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.6% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conner Prairie and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sims Township. Close and well known come first.
39 mi MuseumConner Prairie
36 mi TheatreRuoff Music Center19 mi MuseumGrissom Air Museum
34 mi MuseumIndiana Transportation Museum
19 mi MuseumInternational Circus Hall of Fame
17 mi MuseumElwood Haynes MuseumPhoto credits
Conner Prairie: Unknown, CC BY 2.5 · Ruoff Music Center: TownePost Network, CC BY 2.0 · Indiana Transportation Museum: Jeremy C. Schultz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · International Circus Hall of Fame: Nyttend, Public domain · Elwood Haynes Museum: Nyttend, Public domain
Everything we know about Sims Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Sims Township
About 4 of every 100 Sims Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Sims Township
Census-designated place in Indiana, United States
Sims is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sims Township, Grant County, Indiana. In 2010 it had a population of 156, and an increase to 164 in 2020.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 860 ft
- Area code
- 765
Sims Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Sims Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sims Township | — | — | B+ | — | A− | C+ |
| Jackson Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin Township | #522 | C− | A− | — | C+ | D |
| Richland Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Green Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Sims Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Sims Township and Franklin Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Jackson Township, Richland Township and Green Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sims Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Sims Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sims Township, IN a good place to live?
Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Is Sims Township, IN expensive?
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+.