Wood TownshipIN
A town of 2,978.
Is Wood Township a good place to live?
Wood Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $205K, 2.8 years of the Louisville/Jefferson County metro’s $74K median household income. It grades A overall, 65th among Indiana's 585 graded towns. On the plus side, the median household earns $87K. Wood Township’s average trip to work is 35 minutes, where Indiana’s towns sit at 24 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. On health, just 76 of Indiana’s 1,086 towns do better. Clark State Forest, at 2,720 acres with 9.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
96% of working residents leave Wood Township for work
Where Wood Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Wood Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Wood Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Sons of the American Revolution and 29 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wood Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
20 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
16 mi Stadium & arenaKFC Yum! Center
17 mi Stadium & arenaLynn Family Stadium
19 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumPhoto credits
United States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · KFC Yum! Center: Jamesmac96, CC BY 3.0 · Lynn Family Stadium: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Wood Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wood 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 Wood Township.
Wood Township sends many workers across the state line to Louisville and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally.
Wood Township has set aside 12% of its land for conservation
12 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Wood Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 12% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Clark State Forest | 9.5 mi | 2,720 |
| 2. Alum Cave Hollow Nature Preserve | 0.4 mi | 152 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
On state tests, Wood Township’s schools beat 59% of Indiana districts
Its public schools are run by Borden-Henryville School Corporation. Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is William W Borden High School, with 302 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| William W Borden Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 333 | A− |
| William W Borden High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 302 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests
Wood Township has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
27% of working residents cross a state line to work, Louisville among the top destinations. The average commute for its 1,343 working residents takes 35 minutes, against 24.1 across Indiana.
Most working residents leave Wood Township for work: only 4% work in town. 4.4% of residents live below the poverty line in Wood Township. Since 2013, Wood Township has added 183 jobs, to 829 in 2023.
| Wood Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.4% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.9% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Wood Township ranks healthier than 70% of the country’s towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 90% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures. Its widest gap with Indiana is food insecurity: 8.6% of its 3,835 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.7% statewide.
Wood Township beats the Indiana average on 15 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 20% of Wood Township adults get no exercise outside work.
| Wood Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 26% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Wood Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.6% | 14.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.6% | 8.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.5% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Wood Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Wood Township has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 14 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Wood Township faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 64% of U.S. communities. Since 2008, 5 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wood Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
More children than Indiana overall
Children under 18 are 29% of residents (23% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 18% of residents (23% statewide). Wood Township has grown 7.6% since 2020, to 2,978 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 22% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 30% across Indiana.
| Wood Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 22% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.7 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Wood Township | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 14% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4.6% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.9% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8.4% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 22.4% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 7.8% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.3% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 7.2% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 41.4% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.7% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 13.8% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.4% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.5% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,000, single groups can be off by several points
Everything we know about Wood Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Wood Township
About 2 of every 100 Wood Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Wood Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Wood Township is one of twelve townships in Clark County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,747 and it contained 1,148 housing units.
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- Area
- 39 sq mi
- Elevation
- 545 ft
Wood Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Wood Township.
It grades higher overall than all 5 graded towns on its borders; Greenville Township (A) comes closest.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Township | #65 | A | A− | — | B | B+ |
| Polk Township | #287 | B | A | — | B | C |
| Carr Township | #326 | B | C+ | — | B | B+ |
| Jackson Township | — | — | A | — | B | C |
| Greenville Township | #84 | A | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Monroe Township | #279 | B | A− | — | B | C+ |
| Lafayette Township | #104 | A− | B− | — | A− | A− |
Jackson Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Wood Township, Polk Township, Carr Township, Jackson Township, Greenville Township, Monroe Township and Lafayette Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Wood Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Wood Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wood Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Wood Township grades A overall, better than 90% of U.S. towns and #65 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B+ for health and B for schools.
Is Wood 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−.