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18175 County FIPS Code

Washington County

Indiana · County seat: Salem · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 18175 is Washington County, Indiana. With a population of 28,133 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #57 in Indiana and #1527 nationally. Washington County is part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN. The state FIPS code for Indiana is 18. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

18175

State FIPS

18

IN

Population

28,133

2022 ACS · #1527 nationally

Density

54.8/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

514

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — 1M+ population

RUCC 1

How This FIPS Code Works

18 175
18 = State FIPS (Indiana)
175 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 18175 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 18 (Indiana) with the 3-digit county identifier 175. Together they uniquely identify Washington County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 18175

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 18175.

Median Household Income

$60,695

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

13.1%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

40.9

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (8)

Counties that share a border with Washington County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 18175.

Federal Datasets Using Code 18175

FIPS code 18175 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 18175 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 18175
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:175",
    "in":   "state:18",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Washington County, Indiana, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 18175
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '18175';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '18'
  AND county_fips = '175';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 18175 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 18175
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "18",
  county    = "175",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 18 (not 18) and 175 (not 175) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Washington County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Washington County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
47167 100.0%
47120 99.0%
47108 97.3%
47165 96.0%
47125 51.9%
47281 39.7%
47170 36.8%
47164 31.6%
47106 4.0%
47126 3.8%
47452 0.5%
47115 0.0%

Other Counties in Indiana

Adams County 18001 Allen County 18003 Bartholomew County 18005 Benton County 18007 Blackford County 18009 Boone County 18011 Brown County 18013 Carroll County 18015 Cass County 18017 Clark County 18019 Clay County 18021 Clinton County 18023 Crawford County 18025 Daviess County 18027 DeKalb County 18033 Dearborn County 18029 Decatur County 18031 Delaware County 18035 Dubois County 18037 Elkhart County 18039 Fayette County 18041 Floyd County 18043 Fountain County 18045 Franklin County 18047 Fulton County 18049 Gibson County 18051 Grant County 18053 Greene County 18055 Hamilton County 18057 Hancock County 18059 Harrison County 18061 Hendricks County 18063 Henry County 18065 Howard County 18067 Huntington County 18069 Jackson County 18071 Jasper County 18073 Jay County 18075 Jefferson County 18077 Jennings County 18079 Johnson County 18081 Knox County 18083 Kosciusko County 18085 LaGrange County 18087 LaPorte County 18091 Lake County 18089 Lawrence County 18093 Madison County 18095 Marion County 18097 Marshall County 18099 Martin County 18101 Miami County 18103 Monroe County 18105 Montgomery County 18107 Morgan County 18109 Newton County 18111 Noble County 18113 Ohio County 18115 Orange County 18117 Owen County 18119 Parke County 18121 Perry County 18123 Pike County 18125 Porter County 18127 Posey County 18129 Pulaski County 18131 Putnam County 18133 Randolph County 18135 Ripley County 18137 Rush County 18139 Scott County 18143 Shelby County 18145 Spencer County 18147 St. Joseph County 18141 Starke County 18149 Steuben County 18151 Sullivan County 18153 Switzerland County 18155 Tippecanoe County 18157 Tipton County 18159 Union County 18161 Vanderburgh County 18163 Vermillion County 18165 Vigo County 18167 Wabash County 18169 Warren County 18171 Warrick County 18173 Wayne County 18177 Wells County 18179 White County 18181 Whitley County 18183