Best PlacesHowesville, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Howesville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Howesville ranks 34,866th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.
The best neighborhoods in Howesville
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Howesville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Howesville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 85% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 80% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 77% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 76% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 72% of towns
Where Howesville ranks low
- Short commute44.5 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 56 pleasant days a year, better than only 3% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 10% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Howesville
A household needs to earn about $43,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Howesville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,174, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Howesville's effective rate of 0.55%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Howesville
Howesville runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Howesville.
Who works in Howesville, and how
Work in Howesville centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Howesville
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Howesville.
What the weather is like in Howesville, month by month
Howesville sees roughly 56 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 31° | 21° |
| April | 68° | 54° | 41° |
| July | 88° | 77° | 65° |
| October | 72° | 57° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Howesville
Indianapolis International sits about 59 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.2 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Howesville
Schools across Howesville average a C, better than 39% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- White River Valley Elementary SchB− · 43% proficient
- Shakamak Elementary SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top high schools
- Shakamak Jr-sr High SchoolC · 30% proficient
- White River Valley High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Howesville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Howesville measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Howesville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Howesville
Is Howesville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Howesville ranks 34,866th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, state infrastructure, and an educated workforce, and lowest on long commutes and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Howesville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $170,770. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $80,174 median income, cost of living beats 68% of towns.
Is Howesville safe?
Howesville is safer than 39% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $299 per resident a year.
Compare Howesville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Howesville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Howesville represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Howesville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Howesville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Howesville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Howesville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Howesville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Howesville detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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