Muncie vs Yorktown

A side-by-side comparison of Muncie and Yorktown: population, income, housing, and more.

Muncie and Yorktown are places in Indiana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Muncie has the higher population (64,739 vs 11,617 in Yorktown). Yorktown has the higher median household income ($81,765 vs $43,395 in Muncie). Yorktown has the higher median home value ($182,000 vs $92,000 in Muncie).

Population, income & housing

	Muncie	Yorktown
Population	64,739	11,617
Median age	29.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
Median household income	$43,395	$81,765
Median home value	$92,000	$182,000
Median gross rent	$867	$863
Housing units	30,622	4,942
Homeownership rate	51.5%	92.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.7%	36.4%
Unemployment rate	8.6%	1.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Muncie	Yorktown
Population	68,750 → 64,739 (-5.8%)	11,143 → 11,617 (+4.3%)
Median household income	$33,944 → $43,395 (+27.8%)	$65,395 → $81,765 (+25.0%)
Median home value	$73,500 → $92,000 (+25.2%)	$141,900 → $182,000 (+28.3%)
Median gross rent	$722 → $867 (+20.1%)	$778 → $863 (+10.9%)

Muncie

Population

68,75064,739

Median household income

$33,944$43,395

Median home value

$73,500$92,000

Median gross rent

$722$867

Yorktown

Population

11,14311,617

Median household income

$65,395$81,765

Median home value

$141,900$182,000

Median gross rent

$778$863

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Muncie	Yorktown
Under 5	4.3%	6.7%
5 to 17	11.4%	18.4%
18 to 24	28.1%	5.1%
25 to 34	12.5%	9.5%
35 to 44	9.4%	14.7%
45 to 54	9.6%	13.7%
55 to 64	10.6%	13.5%
65 to 74	8.4%	9.6%
75 and over	5.8%	8.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Muncie	Yorktown
White (non-Hispanic)	78.8%	92.7%
Black or African American	8.2%	0.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.0%
Asian	2.2%	1.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.1%
Some other race	0.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.9%	4.0%
Hispanic or Latino	4.3%	0.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Muncie	Yorktown
No high school diploma	11.0%	4.1%
High school graduate	35.4%	21.4%
Some college or associate's	27.9%	38.2%
Bachelor's degree	14.7%	19.8%
Graduate or professional degree	11.0%	16.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Muncie	Yorktown
Drove alone	72.4%	83.6%
Carpooled	12.4%	7.9%
Public transit	1.9%	0.0%
Walked	6.1%	1.2%
Bicycle	0.8%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.8%	5.8%
Other means	0.6%	1.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Muncie	Yorktown
1-unit, detached	63.5%	91.9%
1-unit, attached	2.7%	1.9%
2 to 4 units	11.5%	1.1%
5 to 19 units	13.3%	1.8%
20 or more units	5.9%	0.4%
Mobile home & other	3.1%	2.9%

Poverty & households

	Muncie	Yorktown
Poverty rate	29.6%	4.2%
Average household size	2.18	2.48
Mean commute (minutes)	19	24
Median year structure built	1962	1973