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Indiana / Parke County

How's Parke County?

One question about Parke County, Indiana, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

Compare with every other county: climate

Right now in Parke County

As of the site's last build: the drought map of October 20, 2026, the wildfire list of October 27, 2026 and stream gages on October 25, 2026. Every state.

Drought

0%

No drought, but some of it abnormally dry. Four weeks before: 0%; a year before: 100%.

US Drought Monitor, via waterdata.dev

Wildfires not yet out

0

None reported here.

NIFC WFIGS, via wildfiredata.dev. A small fire can stay "not out" for weeks after it stops burning.

Rivers and streams

  • BIG RACCOON CREEK AT COXVILLE: 663 ft³/s, 1.4× last year
  • WABASH RIVER AT MONTEZUMA: 3,480 ft³/s, 2.0× last year

USGS daily mean flow, October 25, 2026 against October 25, 2025, via waterdata.dev. One year back is all the API keeps, so this is not a long-term normal.

Parke County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2024 to 2025:jobs, wages and workplaces from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; the year's temperature and precipitation against normal from NOAA; presidential and House votes from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$849+3.9%+26.8%+49.5%Lowest quartile2,868 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 88 of 92 in Indiana
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives3.5K jobs−1.4%+13.7%+13.3%3rd quartile2,321 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 82 of 92 in Indiana
Business establishments2025 · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once325.8 establishments−0.2%+4.8%+8.5%3rd quartile2,339 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 81 of 92 in Indiana
Unemployment rate2025 · by where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected3.9%−0.2 pts−2.0 pts−1.8 pts3rd quartile1,794 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 20 of 92 in Indiana
Labor force2025 · residents working or looking for work7.0K people−0.2%+7.5%−0.3%3rd quartile2,111 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 82 of 92 in Indiana

Weather

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Yearly temperature against normal2025 · the year's average temperature minus its 1991–2020 average+0.1 °F−2.3 °F−0.4 °F0.0 °FLowest quartile2,878 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 77 of 92 in Indiana
Yearly precipitation, share of normal2025 · rain and melted snow over the year, against its 1991–2020 average79% of normal−7 pts−16 pts−29 ptsLowest quartile2,833 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 71 of 92 in Indiana

Presidential vote

IndicatorLatest4 yr8 yr12 yrAmong countiesTrend
Presidential vote margin2024 · Republican minus Democratic share of all presidential votes castR+56.9R+1.3R+4.9R+24.32nd quartile889 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 13 of 92 in Indiana
Third-party and write-in share2024 · every presidential vote not for the Democratic or Republican candidate1.9% of votes+0.3 pts−2.3 pts−0.7 pts2nd quartile926 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 25 of 92 in Indiana
Votes cast for president2024 · a count of votes, not turnout: there is no count of eligible voters here to divide by6.7K votes−5.1%+1.1%+2.1%3rd quartile2,131 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 81 of 92 in Indiana

10 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Parke County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Parke County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.