Muncie, Indiana

The development read on Muncie, from verified US Census data and the live City Forge layers. Every figure below is sourced; anything unverified is marked pending, never estimated.

56/100

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Population

64,739

Median income

$43,395

Median home value

$92,000

Housing vacancy

13.6%

Source: US Census ACS 5-year 2023.

Building momentum

37 residential units permitted in 2025 (vs 103 in 2024).

Source: US Census Building Permits Survey, place-level.

Physical market access

19 interstate junctions within 15 km0 rail or bus stations within 10 km2 commercial airports within 40 km

Source: OpenStreetMap via Overpass.

Forge Score layers

people: 50money: 62land: 58access: 76power: pendingactivity: 20

People, money, and land come from Census; access and activity are live; power is City Forge field intelligence. Pending layers are excluded from the score, never defaulted.

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