Midwest · Indiana · pop 272K
Fort Wayne, IN
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in IN, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,211 — covering estimated essentials here (about $918 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,959 left over.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($220,000) is about 3.7× the median household income.
Expect summer highs near 84°F, winter lows around 19°F, and about 183 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Fort Wayne fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,252/mo
Typical rent
$1,080/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.7×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $950/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,080/mo
- Median home value
- $220,000
- Median household income
- $60,000
- Population
- 272,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.9%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.4%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 340
- Property crime rate
- 2,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 84°F
- Avg. winter low
- 19°F
- Sunny days / year
- 183
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈8/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈46/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈6/yr
- Annual rain
- 38"
- Annual snow
- 32"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+18
- Int'l airport
- ≈10 mi
- Walkability
- 34/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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