Is Ingersoll Township a good place to live?
Ingersoll Township is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, 19th among Michigan's 697 graded towns. Homes are within reach, about $190K for a typical one, or 2.4 years of the Midland metro’s $78K median household income, its schools outperform 87% of the state's, and the median household earns $99K. Its lowest mark, a B+, is in health. Only 118 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns score lower on hazard risk. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. Only 7 of the 701 Michigan towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Ingersoll Township.
99% of working residents leave Ingersoll Township for work
Where Ingersoll Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Ingersoll Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Ingersoll Township is from typical.
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USS Edson and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ingersoll Township. Close and well known come first.
19 mi MuseumUSS Edson
7 mi GardenDow Gardens
6 mi GardenChippewa Nature Center
19 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum
16 mi TheatreTemple Theatre16 mi Zoo & aquariumChildren's Zoo at Celebration SquarePhoto credits
USS Edson: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Dow Gardens: Chris.Schiemann, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chippewa Nature Center: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum: John McCullough, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Temple Theatre: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Ingersoll Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ingersoll 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 Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Ingersoll Township.
Ingersoll Township sends most of its workers to Midland and beyond, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Michigan (mostly inland flooding).
Most working residents commute out of Ingersoll Township
Ingersoll Township has 101 jobs for its 1,076 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Ingersoll Township for work: only 1% work in town. Ingersoll Township’s average trip to work is 29 minutes, above both the Michigan town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). 4.7% of residents live below the poverty line in Ingersoll Township.
| Ingersoll Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.7% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $99,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Residents of Ingersoll Township are healthier than 69% of U.S. towns
On this, Ingersoll Township is against 34% in Michigan’s towns and 36% across U.S. towns. Ingersoll Township beats the Michigan average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 33% of Ingersoll Township adults have obesity.
| Ingersoll Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 37% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 27% | 23% |
| What stands out | Ingersoll Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.5% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.1% | 11.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
More middle-aged adults than Michigan overall
Adults 35 to 64 are 47% of residents (38% statewide); children under 18 are 16% of residents (21% statewide). Ingersoll Township’s median age is 48.6 years. 32% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Michigan.
| Ingersoll Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 16% | 21% | 22% |
| Median age | 48.6 years | 42.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 26% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.4 points. Across Michigan, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Ingersoll Township | MI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 4.8% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.9% | 10.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.9% | 9.2% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.5% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.2% | 12.2% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.5% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.8% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.9% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.6% | 7.4% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.7% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23.6% | 28% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.2% | 21.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 18.2% | 9.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.3% | 19.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.8% | 12.7% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,600, single groups can be off by several points
Ingersoll Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Ingersoll Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 16° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Ingersoll Township, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 93% of Michigan towns, with expected losses of about $588 per resident a year; that rating is what its C+ for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Ingersoll Township is 55 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Ingersoll Township
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Ingersoll Township
About 7 of every 100 Ingersoll Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
About Ingersoll Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Ingersoll Township is a civil township of Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 37 sq mi
- Elevation
- 627 ft
Ingersoll Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Ingersoll Township.
At #19 in MI, it grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Midland (A) comes closest.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingersoll Township | #19 | A+ | A | — | A | B+ |
| Midland | #65 | A | B− | B+ | A | A− |
| Mount Haley Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | B− |
| Tittabawassee Township | #263 | B+ | C | — | A | B+ |
| Midland Township | — | — | A | — | A | B+ |
| Freeland | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Richland Township | #356 | B− | C | B+ | B+ | B |
Mount Haley Township and Midland Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Ingersoll Township, Mount Haley Township, Tittabawassee Township and Midland Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Freeland isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Ingersoll Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Ingersoll Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ingersoll Township, MI a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Ingersoll Township grades A+ overall, better than 97% of U.S. towns and #19 of 697 in Michigan. It grades B+ for health and A for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Ingersoll Township, MI 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.