Mentone vs Silver Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Mentone and Silver Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Silver Lake has the higher population (961 vs 793 in Mentone). Mentone has the higher median household income ($63,636 vs $53,542 in Silver Lake). Silver Lake has the higher median home value ($107,300 vs $104,300 in Mentone).

Population, income & housing

	Mentone	Silver Lake
Population	793	961
Median age	41.9 yrs	46.3 yrs
Median household income	$63,636	$53,542
Median home value	$104,300	$107,300
Median gross rent	$797	$1,057
Housing units	416	499
Homeownership rate	71.4%	78.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.2%	7.3%
Unemployment rate	4.0%	7.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Mentone	Silver Lake
Population	1,239 → 793 (-36.0%)	948 → 961 (+1.4%)
Median household income	$57,361 → $63,636 (+10.9%)	$48,281 → $53,542 (+10.9%)
Median home value	$83,000 → $104,300 (+25.7%)	$75,600 → $107,300 (+41.9%)
Median gross rent	$681 → $797 (+17.0%)	$687 → $1,057 (+53.9%)

Mentone

Population

1,239793

Median household income

$57,361$63,636

Median home value

$83,000$104,300

Median gross rent

$681$797

Silver Lake

Population

948961

Median household income

$48,281$53,542

Median home value

$75,600$107,300

Median gross rent

$687$1,057

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Mentone	Silver Lake
Under 5	2.5%	5.9%
5 to 17	12.4%	15.0%
18 to 24	15.9%	5.4%
25 to 34	11.9%	14.8%
35 to 44	13.0%	8.2%
45 to 54	7.8%	13.1%
55 to 64	15.3%	14.4%
65 to 74	13.5%	12.9%
75 and over	7.8%	10.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Mentone	Silver Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	93.6%	96.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.3%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.6%	1.7%
Hispanic or Latino	4.5%	2.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Mentone	Silver Lake
No high school diploma	18.0%	14.7%
High school graduate	43.0%	55.8%
Some college or associate's	28.8%	22.2%
Bachelor's degree	5.3%	6.6%
Graduate or professional degree	4.9%	0.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Mentone	Silver Lake
Drove alone	81.7%	85.1%
Carpooled	10.0%	10.1%
Public transit	0.5%	1.0%
Walked	5.3%	1.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.1%	1.8%
Other means	0.5%	0.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Mentone	Silver Lake
1-unit, detached	76.2%	82.6%
1-unit, attached	0.5%	0.4%
2 to 4 units	7.9%	3.2%
5 to 19 units	1.7%	0.0%
20 or more units	3.4%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	10.3%	13.8%

Poverty & households

	Mentone	Silver Lake
Poverty rate	5.3%	15.1%
Average household size	2.12	2.41
Mean commute (minutes)	26	28
Median year structure built	1947	1957