Is Ingalls a good place to live?
Ingalls gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $180K for a typical one, or 2.3 years of the Indianapolis metro’s $80K median household income. It grades A− overall, ranked 128th of 585 in Indiana. Only 94 of Indiana’s 1,086 towns score higher on health. Ingalls's public schools beat 73% of Indiana towns on state tests and graduation.
What makes Ingalls stand out
Where Ingalls beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Ingalls for work
Where Ingalls’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ingalls grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Ingalls is from typical.
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Moving to Ingalls: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ingalls, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Ingalls.
Ingalls pairs an A− overall with homes cheaper than the Indiana norm and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally, but it has commutes longer than most of Indiana.
Most of Ingalls’ workers head elsewhere: there are 0.4 jobs for each of them
The average commute for its 1,196 working residents takes 31.2 minutes, against 24.1 across Indiana.
The average trip to work for Ingalls comes to 31 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Just 2% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Jobs based in Ingalls grew to 432 in 2023, 226 more than in 2013. Half commute less than 17 miles.
| Ingalls | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For cost of living, Ingalls earns an A−
Ingalls grades A− overall with a typical home of about $180K, below the Indiana typical value; only 18 of the 64 Indiana towns graded A− or better can say that. At 2.3 years of the Indianapolis metro’s $80K median household income, the typical home (about $180K) costs less against local pay than in 79% of Indiana towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
A typical home in Ingalls is worth about $180,000, up 3.5% in a year, 30% below the Indiana typical home. The median rent for Ingalls comes to $1,379 a month, above both the Indiana town median ($946 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Also worth knowing: homes sold in Ingalls spent a median 45 days on the market.
| Ingalls | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,379 a month | $946 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 76% | 76% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
On CDC estimates, Ingalls is healthier than two in three U.S. towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 87% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures.
28% of Ingalls adults have been diagnosed with depression. Of 32 CDC measures, Ingalls beats the Indiana average on 8 and trails it on 1.
| Ingalls | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.6% | 13% | 12% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 39% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Ingalls | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.5% | 3.5% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.9% | 6.8% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 72.5% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Ingalls has four seasons and pleasant summers
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 20°, and about 18 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a low hazard risk in Ingalls: inland flooding
One flood insurance claim has been paid in Ingalls since 2026. On expected storm and flood damage, Ingalls sits below 64% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 58% come from inland flooding and 15% from tornadoes. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2026.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lucas Oil Stadium and 34 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ingalls. Close and well known come first.
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaLucas Oil Stadium
23 mi Stadium & arenaGainbridge Fieldhouse
12 mi MuseumConner Prairie
21 mi Stadium & arenaHinkle Fieldhouse
23 mi LandmarkSoldiers' and Sailors' Monument
7 mi TheatreRuoff Music CenterPhoto credits
Lucas Oil Stadium: Josh Hallett from Winter Haven, FL, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Gainbridge Fieldhouse: Durin at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Conner Prairie: Unknown, CC BY 2.5 · Hinkle Fieldhouse: Peetlesnumber1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: alexeatswhales, CC BY 2.0 · Ruoff Music Center: TownePost Network, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Ingalls
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Ingalls
About 3 of every 100 Ingalls residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Ingalls
Town in Indiana, United States
Ingalls is a town in Green Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,223 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 866 ft
- ZIP code
- 46048
- Area code
- 317
Ingalls’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Ingalls.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingalls | #128 | A− | A− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Pendleton | #87 | A | B | — | B+ | B+ |
| Green Township | #187 | A− | B | — | B+ | B+ |
| Fall Creek Township | #131 | A− | B+ | — | B+ | B− |
Ingalls, Pendleton, Green Township and Fall Creek Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Ingalls with a neighbor →
Questions about Ingalls
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ingalls, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Ingalls grades A− overall, better than 81% of U.S. towns and #128 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools.