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A town of 4,588, settled in 1882.
Wheatfield Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $336K, 3.7 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. It grades A overall, 78th of 585 graded towns in Indiana. On the plus side, its schools outperform 78% of the state's. Wheatfield Township’s mean commuting time is 29 minutes, where Indiana’s towns sit at 24 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes.
Where Wheatfield Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Kankakee Valley Intermediate Sch | 4–5 | 469 |
| Wheatfield Elementary School | K–3 | 324 |
| Kankakee Valley Middle School | 6–8 | 728 |
Where Wheatfield 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 Wheatfield Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 366 in 1900, 904 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1915 and 3 maps from 1957 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wheatfield 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 Wheatfield Township.
Wheatfield Township pairs an A− for schools with modest home prices, trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and has added a third more jobs in ten years.
That grade comes with an A+ for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $337K.
The largest public high school is Kankakee Valley High School, with 976 students. Public schools: Kankakee Valley School Corp. Three of its 4 schools are shown below, with the reason for each.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kankakee Valley Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 728 | B+ |
| Kankakee Valley High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 976 | A− |
| Wheatfield Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades K–3 | Grades K–3 | 324 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Jobs based here grew from 598 in 2013 to 819.
For residents in Wheatfield Township, the share who live below the poverty line is 7.5%. Since 2013, Wheatfield Township has added 221 jobs, to 819 in 2023. The top destinations are Valparaiso (7%), DeMotte (6%) and Crown Point (4%).
| Wheatfield Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 7.5% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 7.1% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $80,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Homes are within reach (about $337K for the typical one, A+ for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 25 miles.
Among households in Wheatfield Township, 88% are owner-occupiers. Typical home values rose 3.3% in the year to September 2026. For Wheatfield Township, the rent at the middle of the market is $950 a month.
| Wheatfield Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 88% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $950 a month | $946 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Paid flood insurance claims in Wheatfield Township since 2008: one. On expected storm and flood damage, Wheatfield Township sits below 70% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 50% come from inland flooding and 23% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Wheatfield Township, just over two in five adults have obesity. The town tracks Indiana closely on all 32 CDC measures.
| Wheatfield Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 16% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 17°, and about 30 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Walkers can cover 2.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. In Wheatfield Township, the density of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Wheatfield Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Centennial Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wheatfield Township. Close and well known come first.
22 mi National ParkIndiana Dunes National Park2.6M visitors a year
36 mi MuseumMascot Hall of Fame36 mi Theme parkIndiana Beach
18 mi MuseumHoosier Valley Railroad Museum
16 mi MuseumBrauer Museum of Art
24 mi GardenIndiana Botanic GardensIndiana Dunes National Park: J. Crocker, Attribution · Mascot Hall of Fame: No machine-readable author provided. JGlover assumed (based on copyright claims), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Brauer Museum of Art: Thomas Alexander Harrison, Public domain · Indiana Botanic Gardens: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0
None within 15 miles of Wheatfield Township; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Wheatfield Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Town in Indiana, United States
Wheatfield is a town in Wheatfield Township, Jasper County, Indiana, United States. The population was 904 at the 2020 census.
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4 towns share a border with Wheatfield Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatfield Township | #78 | A | A+ | — | A− | C |
| Keener Township | #121 | A− | A | — | A− | C+ |
| Kankakee Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pleasant Township | #11 | A+ | A | — | A | B− |
| Walker Township | #262 | B | A | — | A− | C |
Wheatfield Township, Keener Township, Pleasant Township and Walker Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Kankakee Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wheatfield Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Wheatfield Township grades A overall, better than 88% of U.S. towns and #78 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C for health and A− for schools.
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+.
