Wayne TownshipIN
A town of 1,645. 70% more nonprofits per person than the typical Indiana town.
Is Wayne Township a good place to live?
Wayne Township’s best subject grades are an A for cost of living and civic life and an A− for schools; its weakest is a D for walkability. 10% of residents are 65 or older in Wayne Township, where Indiana’s towns sit at 18% and U.S. towns at 18%. Among 594 Indiana towns, just 8 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Wayne Township. Only 70 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns score lower on the outdoors. Wayne Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Wayne Township stand out
Where Wayne Township beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Wayne Township for work
Where Wayne Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Wayne Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Wayne Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Wayne Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wayne 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 Wayne Township.
Wayne Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Wayne Township for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Wayne Township grew to 86 in 2023, 32 more than in 2013. At $64,000, Wayne Township’s median household income is close to Indiana’s towns ($71,000) and below U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Wayne Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $64,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Wayne Township are less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns
Wayne Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 39% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Wayne Township.
| Wayne Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 26% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 39% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 25% |
| What stands out | Wayne Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.3% | 8.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.3% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Wayne Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Wayne Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 18° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Wayne Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 61% of U.S. communities. Since 2013, 3 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wayne Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Ross–Ade Stadium and 12 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wayne Township. Close and well known come first.
25 mi Stadium & arenaRoss–Ade Stadium
16 mi State parkTurkey Run State Park
31 mi State parkProphetstown State Park40 mi LandmarkWabash and Erie Canal
8 mi MuseumGeneral Lew Wallace Study
13 mi MuseumRopkey Armor MuseumPhoto credits
Ross–Ade Stadium: Tstuddud at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Turkey Run State Park: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Prophetstown State Park: Flickr user: Dan https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwmizell/, CC BY-SA 2.0 · General Lew Wallace Study: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ropkey Armor Museum: John Schanlaub, CC BY 3.0
Everything we know about Wayne Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Wayne Township
About 5 of every 100 Wayne Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
About Wayne Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Wayne Township is one of eleven townships in Montgomery County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,588 (slightly down of 1,590 from 2010) and it contained 678 housing units.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 810 ft
Wayne Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Wayne Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | — | — | A | — | A− | C |
| Union Township | #129 | A− | A | — | A | C− |
| Coal Creek Township | — | — | A+ | — | A− | C |
| Ripley Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cain Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | C− |
| Jackson Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wayne Township, Coal Creek Township and Cain Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Wayne Township, Union Township, Coal Creek Township and Cain Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Ripley Township and Jackson Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wayne Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Wayne Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wayne Township, IN a good place to live?
70% more nonprofits per person than the typical Indiana town.
Is Wayne 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 A.