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Median Income. Median Home Price. Median Age. Comfort Index Climate. Muncie is an agricultural center with a college-town element and a variety of industries. In the 19th century the Ball family started manufacturing canning jars, and Ball jars are still the world standard. The family business endowed Ball State University, a mid-sized school with an attractive campus and and good reputation.

The college-town influence and private endowments bring above-average healthcare and a few arts amenities. Housing is also very reasonable.

Read More about Muncie. Negatives include a harsh winter climate and somewhat lower educational attainment than would be expected in a college town. Recent and projected future employment trends are very weak.

That said, student loan funder Sallie Mae recently announced a new facility bringing jobs. Recent redevelopment efforts have brought new streetscapes, parks, and some national recognition.

The town is located in a mainly level agricultural plain, with a few rolling hills to the south and areas of deciduous trees. Summers are warm and humid with thundershowers but extreme heat is rare. Winters are cold and variable with occasional blasts of cold polar air and snow. Snowfalls of 3 inches or more occur on average of two to three times each winter. First freeze is mid to late October, the last is late April.

Recent job growth is Positive. Muncie jobs have increased by 1. Of course the the university has its share of attractions as well. There are few bums roaming about but they don't seem too threatening. The current scam is to ask for gas money. The politics are mixed with liberal and naive professors, usually politically apathetic students and some country types who came from Kentucky or West Virginia and haven't changed much.

It is interesting to see Amish craftsmen building homes for low income residents. Minus: Read More. Agree 84 Disagree Ball Memorial is a strong regional hospital and the retail and food establishments are also very strong regionally.

Beyond that things tend to get very sparse and with very little positive change. The new Magna plant and the Sallie Mae facility are good news but I think it's not enough. We have a lot of things going for us - major college, phenomenal cost of living numbers, space, decent access to the interstate s so hope things will find a way to get better.

The decline in population and in jobs has to Read More. Agree 71 Disagree Love Muncie Wish I could move there! Really laid back. I wish I could afford to move away from Indy, but the technology job market isn't great there. But the cost of living is superb in Muncie, so I'll keep looking!

Muncie is located close to a large Reservoir Prarie Creek. So if you like the outdoors, don't miss it. Muncie was lightly disguised as "Middletown" by a team of sociologists, led by Robert and Helen Lynd, who were only the first to conduct a series of studies in Muncie—considered a typical Middle-American community—in their case, a study funded by the Rockefeller Institute of Social and Religious Research.

They returned to re-observe the community during the Depression and published Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts Ironically, a Henry County farming community actually called Middletown is only a minute drive from Muncie. Muncie, IN Directions.