Home age in ZIP 47711, Evansville, IN: median built 1961

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 47711 in Evansville, IN: median home built 1961; 87% of homes (12,605) are older than 25 years and 5% (726) were built since 2010, out of 14,487 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 47711.

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Share of homes in ZIP 47711 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 19.3 percent; 1940s 15.2 percent; 1950s 14.6 percent; 1960s 7.7 percent; 1970s 10 percent; 1980s 9.2 percent; 1990s 11.1 percent; 2000s 8 percent; 2010s 4.8 percent; 2020+ 0.2 percentpre-1940: 2,792 homes, 19.3%19.3%pre-1940Vanderburgh County: 17.2%1940s: 2,195 homes, 15.2%15.2%1940sVanderburgh County: 8.8%1950s: 2,118 homes, 14.6%14.6%1950sVanderburgh County: 15.4%1960s: 1,119 homes, 7.7%7.7%1960sVanderburgh County: 8.8%1970s: 1,442 homes, 10.0%10%1970sVanderburgh County: 13.6%1980s: 1,331 homes, 9.2%9.2%1980sVanderburgh County: 10.4%1990s: 1,608 homes, 11.1%11.1%1990sVanderburgh County: 9.3%2000s: 1,156 homes, 8.0%8%2000sVanderburgh County: 10.0%2010s: 695 homes, 4.8%4.8%2010sVanderburgh County: 5.7%2020+: 31 homes, 0.2%0.2%2020+Vanderburgh County: 0.7%Built 1999 or earlier: 87% of homes (12,605)ZIP 47711, built before 2000built 2000 or laterVanderburgh County

Share of the 14,487 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Vanderburgh County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 47711 next to Evansville and Vanderburgh County

IndicatorZIP 47711EvansvilleVanderburgh CountyRank among 5 ZIPs of Evansville on this site
Housing units14,48758,78584,8092nd of 5 largest
Median year built1961196019703rd of 5 oldest
Built before 198066.7%74%63.8%
Built before 200087%no data83.5%4th of 5 highest share
Built since 20105%no data6.4%
Owner-occupied homes75%53.9%64.5%1st of 5 highest share
Single-family units86.3%66.9%no data
Median home value$156,200 (+/- $12,445)$129,100$172,3002nd of 5 highest
Median household income$65,398 (+/- $3,346)$52,251no data1st of 5 highest

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 47711

BuiltShare of Vanderburgh CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 47711
2020+0.7%0.2%31
2010s5.7%4.8%695
2000s10.0%8.0%1,156
1990s9.3%11.1%1,608
1980s10.4%9.2%1,331
1970s13.6%10.0%1,442
1960s8.8%7.7%1,119
1950s15.4%14.6%2,118
1940s8.8%15.2%2,195
pre-194017.2%19.3%2,792

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 47711

ZIP 47711 has 14,487 housing units: 12,605 (87%) were built before 2000, 726 (5%) in 2010 or later, and 2,792 (19.3%) before 1940, its largest era. The median year built is 1961 (Evansville: 1960), so 1 years newer than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 75% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 86.3% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $156,200, give or take $12,445; median household income is $65,398, give or take $3,346; the ZIP holds 24.6% of the housing units the Census counts in Evansville, 14,487 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 10,997 units (75.9%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 1,608 (11.1%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 1,156 (8%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 726 (5%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 47711

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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–of homes in ZIP 47711 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 47711 among Evansville’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 47711 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 47714: 16,040 homes, 95.2% built before 2000, median year 195847714ZIP 47715: 14,451 homes, 82.1% built before 2000, median year 198347715ZIP 47710: 9,119 homes, 90.7% built before 2000, median year 196247710ZIP 47713: 5,507 homes, 88.5% built before 2000, median year 194147713ZIP 47711: 14,487 homes, 87% built before 2000, median year 196147711
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  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 47711. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Closest ZIP areas

ZIPMilesMedian builtPre-2000
477102.2 W196290.7%
477144.1 S195895.2%
477154.3 SE198382.1%
477134.7 S194188.5%

Distance is between Census ZIP centres.

Storm backdrop: Vanderburgh County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Vanderburgh County Relatively Moderate overall (91.3 of 100), Relatively Moderate for hail (82.9), Relatively High for strong wind (95.9) and Relatively High for tornado (95.9). NOAA logged 21 hail reports in the county, on 10 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 47711: Bloomington, IN (96 miles), Terre Haute, IN (100 miles), Clarksville, TN (103 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 47711?

Of the 14,487 housing units, 9,666 (66.7%) were built before 1980, 12,605 (87%) before 2000 and 726 (5%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 47711?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 9,666 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Which nearby ZIP has the oldest housing?

Of the 4 closest ZIP areas we cover, 47714 (4.1 miles S) has the largest share built before 2000, 95.2%, against 87% in 47711.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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