The other ledger for Indiana: a 138,137-home deficit for the poorest renters — the Midwest's joint-lowest supply rate — a million food-insecure Hoosiers, a dozen rural hospitals flagged vulnerable with four already closed, and a broadband buildout whose first contracted round only starts construction this fall. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Nine categories, 19 measures. Indiana's needs split into two kinds: bottom-of-the-market shortages that are severe by national standards (34 affordable homes per 100 poorest renter households; 1,097,150 food-insecure residents) and inventory problems that are real but comparatively contained (17% of major roads poor or mediocre and 5% of bridges deficient — the best roads ledger in this batch, which is why roads-bridges carries this page's lowest severity score).
Where sources disagree, both are printed and neither is averaged away. Two rural-hospital screens give different answers for Indiana — the Sheps Center's 2025 Senate-requested screen flags 12 hospitals, CHQPR's older financial screen flags 14 of 54 at immediate risk — and they measure different things. The water figures rest on ASCE's 2019 Indiana fact sheet (the newest Indiana-specific ASCE needs total published in the sources reviewed); their vintage is disclosed on the measures rather than refreshed cosmetically, and ASCE's separate 2025 summary figure for wastewater ($6.4B) is noted on the measure instead of substituted.
Metro, utility and programme figures are labeled as what they are: the traffic numbers are TTI's for the Indianapolis metro and for the full bi-state Chicago IL-IN urban area that includes northwest Indiana; the power numbers are AES Indiana's filed 2025 plan scenarios for the Indianapolis area plus one approved 390 MW load — not a state finding of shortage; and the broadband numbers are BEAD locations and dollars under NTIA's definitions, with the state broadband office's second-round estimates labeled as estimates. The food category runs on Feeding America's food-insecurity counts; the release retrieved publishes no single statewide rate and no verified statewide USDA low-access tract count was published, so neither is printed.