Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A city of 72,006, settled in 1837. Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Trash & recyclingBecause it does well by almost any measure. St. John Township earns an A, ranked 36th of 585 in Indiana. Its public schools beat 87% of Indiana towns on state tests and graduation and the median household earns $103K. Its lowest mark, a B−, is in cost of living. Only 71 of Indiana’s 1,086 towns score higher on health. The biggest place to walk is Oak Ridge Prairie County Park, 406 acres with 2.6 miles of trail. Only 100 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns score higher on the outdoors.
Where St. John Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| James H Watson Elementary School | PK–4 | 660 |
| Protsman Elementary School | PK–4 | 614 |
| George Bibich Elementary School | PK–4 | 547 |
| Widest gap | St. John Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.2% | 15.4% |
Where St. John 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 St. John Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 40 in 1880, 20,303 in 2020. The archive holds 10 old photos and papers going back to 2006 and 4 maps from 1953 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around St. John Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw22 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
2 mi National ParkIndiana Dunes National Park2.6M visitors a year
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaUnited CenterSoldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Indiana Dunes National Park: J. Crocker, Attribution · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in St. John 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 St. John Township.
St. John Township sends many workers across the state line, costs more than Dyer or any other town next door and owes part of its health edge to its incomes.
Its typical home is the priciest on its borders; Dyer is next at $360K. The median property tax bill is $2,938, against $1,614 across Indiana, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
On the market in St. John Township: a median 20 days to sell. In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 2.2%. Its midpoint rent comes in at $1,302 a month.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Below: Three of its 16 schools, each with why it was picked. The public schools here belong to Lake Central School Corporation. The 6 public schools in St. John Township teach 3,242 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hal E Clark Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 1,032 | B+ |
| Lake Central High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,926 | A |
| George Bibich Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 547 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Trails run 16 miles in 31 parks and preserves. St. John Township’s concentration of trails stands at 0.4 miles per square mile.
| St. John Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 7.2% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Oak Ridge Prairie County Park | 2.6 mi | 406 |
| 2. Central Park | 1.5 mi | 69 |
| 3. Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve | 0.7 mi | 303 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
30% of working residents cross a state line to work. The average commute for its 30,319 working residents takes 31.1 minutes, against 24.1 across Indiana.
The share of working residents in St. John Township who work locally: 16%. This Indiana town had 20,654 jobs in 2023, up 3,032 from 2013. In St. John Township, the mean commuting time is 31 minutes, above both Indiana’s towns (24 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Half commute less than 10 miles.
| St. John Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 16% | 11% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.9% | 10% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 8,114 U.S. towns with household incomes like St. John Township’s, it is healthier than 54%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Among adults in St. John Township, 35% have high blood pressure. The share of adults in St. John Township who binge drink is 18%, above both the Indiana town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (16%). The town does better than the Indiana average on 16 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1. In St. John Township, 29% of adults feel lonely, and 15% report frequent mental distress.
| St. John Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 26% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 32% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 16% |
| What stands out | St. John Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.2% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.8% | 14.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.4% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 17°, and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In St. John Township, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or older. This Indiana town has grown 4.3% since 2020, to 72,006 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. Its midpoint age comes in at 44.6 years. Here, 37% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 30% in Indiana as a whole.
| St. John Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 44.6 years | 39.4 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 22% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 21% | 23% | 22% |
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±1.2 points). Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women. Median age: women 45.2, men 43.9.
| St. John Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.4% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.3% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.2% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.6% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.9% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.3% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.4% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.8% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 27.2% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.7% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.7% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.8% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.8% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 58% of U.S. communities. St. John Township has had 77 paid flood insurance claims since 1979. FEMA puts 53% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 22% to cold waves. Federal disaster aid has reached households in St. John Township once, in 1999.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
7 within 15 miles of the center of St. John Township
About 5 of every 100 St. John Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
Town in Indiana, United States
St. John or Saint John is a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. St. John is located in St. John Township, Hanover Township, and Center Township. It is a southeastern suburb of Chicago. St. John was founded in 1837. The population was 20,303 at the 2020 census.
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10 towns share a border with St. John Township.
North Township next door grades lower for schools (C− to St. John Township’s A) and higher for cost of living (A− to B−).
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. John Township | #36 | A | B− | — | A | B+ |
| Hanover Township | #52 | A | B− | — | A | B+ |
| Calumet Township | #573 | D | A− | — | D− | D− |
| Griffith | #60 | A | A− | B | A− | B− |
| Schererville | #97 | A | B− | B | A | B+ |
| St. John | #1 | A+ | B | A+ | A | A− |
| Dyer | #10 | A+ | B− | A+ | A | B+ |
| Ross Township | #467 | C+ | B | — | C+ | C |
St. John Township, Hanover Township, Calumet Township and Ross Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare St. John Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. St. John Township grades A overall, better than 94% of U.S. towns and #36 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B+ for health and A for schools.
That is 5.1 years of the area's median household income ($90,887 across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro 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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