Rushville, the seat of Rush County in east-central Indiana, is a city of about six thousand people built around a courthouse square and Main Street with eight properties on the National Register of Historic Places.

County: Rush

READI region: Accelerate Rural Indiana

Region's READI awards: $20 million in READI 1.0 (2021); $30 million in READI 2.0 (2024)

Population: 6,208 in the 2020 Census, down 2.1 percent since 2010; estimated 6,171 in 2025

Residents 65 and over: 19.0%

Per capita income: $28,123

Adults 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher: 14.2%

Owner-occupied homes: 60.9%