Wayne TownshipIN
A town of 1,737.
Is Wayne Township a good place to live?
The best of Wayne Township’s subject grades are an A for incomes and an A− for health; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 25 of Indiana’s 1,097 towns do worse. A typical home costs about $246K, 4 years of the Lafayette metro’s $62K median household income. Only 39 of Indiana’s 1,086 towns score higher on health. The biggest park or preserve is Granville Sand Barrens, at 79 acres. 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.
| Widest gap | Wayne Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.7% | 15.4% |
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 stands out in Indiana and nationally: a smaller share of its adults have obesity
29% of adults have obesity in Wayne Township, where Indiana’s towns sit at 39% and U.S. towns at 35%. 11% of Wayne Township adults have diabetes. Wayne Township beats the Indiana average on 13 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| Wayne Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 39% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 26% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Wayne Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.7% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.3% | 14.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Wayne Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 80% of U.S. communities. Since 2003, 8 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wayne Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Compared with most of Indiana and the rest of the country, the median household income in Wayne Township is higher
Wayne Township’s median household income is $125,000, above both the Indiana town median ($71,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). 3.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Wayne Township. Jobs based in Wayne Township grew to 112 in 2023, 65 more than in 2013.
| Wayne Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $125,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.1% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 11% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
More middle-aged adults than Indiana overall
Adults 35 to 64 are 48% of residents (37% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 14% of residents (23% statewide). Wayne Township’s median age is 43.3 years. Wayne Township has grown 3.3% since 2020, to 1,737 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Wayne Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 22% | 29% |
| Median age | 43.3 years | 39.4 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 18% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.4 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Wayne Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.4% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.8% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.5% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 21% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.1% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.6% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.1% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.6% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 10.8% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.1% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 11.6% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 14.1% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.1% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.2% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Wayne Township
Wayne Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, 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
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Granville Sand Barrens | — | 79 |
| 2. Cadet Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Ross–Ade Stadium and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wayne Township. Close and well known come first.
9 mi Stadium & arenaRoss–Ade Stadium
15 mi State parkProphetstown State Park25 mi LandmarkWabash and Erie Canal34 mi Theme parkIndiana Beach
33 mi State parkTurkey Run State Park
9 mi MuseumSamaraPhoto credits
Ross–Ade Stadium: Tstuddud at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Prophetstown State Park: Flickr user: Dan https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwmizell/, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Turkey Run State Park: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Samara: Tim Musson, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Everything we know about Wayne Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Wayne Township
About 4 of every 100 Wayne Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Wayne Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Wayne Township is one of thirteen townships in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,580 and it contained 623 housing units.
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- Area
- 35 sq mi
- Elevation
- 623 ft
Wayne Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Wayne Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Township | — | — | A− | — | B+ | A− |
| Shelby Township | #269 | B | B− | — | B− | B+ |
| Shadeland | — | — | B | — | B+ | A− |
| Union Township | — | — | B | — | B+ | B |
| Davis Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wayne Township, Shadeland and Union Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Wayne Township, Shelby Township, Shadeland and Union Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Davis Township isn’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 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−.