LapelIN
A town of 2,570, platted in 1876.
Is Lapel a good place to live?
Lapel gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $230K, 2.9 years of the Indianapolis metro’s $80K median household income. It grades A overall, ranked 99th of 585 in Indiana. Lapel's schools outperform 71% of the state's.
What makes Lapel stand out
Where Lapel beats most towns.
Lapel has grown 24% since 2010
2,068 counted in 2010 and 2,325 in 2020; an estimated 2,570 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 10.4% since 2020, after 12.4% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Lapel grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Lapel is from typical.
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Moving to Lapel: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lapel, 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 Lapel.
Lapel pairs an A overall with homes cheaper than the Indiana norm and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally, but it has little public open land.
With 0.7 jobs for every working resident, most of Lapel’s workers commute out
Jobs based here grew from 315 in 2013 to 654.
Most working residents leave Lapel for work: only 4% work in town. 17% of Lapel workers work from home, above both the Indiana town median (7.8%) and the median of U.S. towns (11%). Since 2013, Lapel has added 339 jobs, to 654 in 2023.
| Lapel | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 17% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.9% | 11% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.4% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Lapel, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Lapel has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 20° and about 18 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lapel ranks healthier than 63% of the country’s towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 85% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures.
Lapel beats the Indiana average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 28% of Lapel adults have been diagnosed with depression, where Indiana’s towns sit at 26% and U.S. towns at 23%. 33% of Lapel adults have obesity.
| Lapel | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 21% | 19% |
| What stands out | Lapel | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.3% | 14.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.3% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lapel faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 63% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lapel earns a B+ for cost of living
Lapel grades A overall with a typical home of about $230K, below the Indiana typical value; only 18 of the 64 Indiana towns graded A− or better can say that.
The median rent in Lapel is $1,318 a month. The typical Lapel home is worth about $230,000, up 1.8% in a year, 11% below the Indiana typical home.
| Lapel | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,318 a month | $946 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 70% | 76% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Younger than Indiana overall
People 65 and older are 13% of residents (17% statewide). 27% of residents are under 18 in Lapel. Lapel has grown 10% since 2020, to 2,570 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Lapel | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 34.1 years | 39.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 13% | 18% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 26% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.4 points. Across Indiana, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Lapel | IN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 17.3% | 12.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.5% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.7% | 9.6% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.7% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.2% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.1% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 6.9% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.7% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.4% | 9.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 37.3% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.2% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.4% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.8% | 18.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 6% | 10.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,600, single groups can be off by several points
0% of Lapel is conserved land
Just 0 of its 6,601 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Lapel itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lapel Park | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Lucas Oil Stadium and 34 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lapel. Close and well known come first.
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaLucas Oil Stadium
25 mi Stadium & arenaGainbridge Fieldhouse
11 mi MuseumConner Prairie
22 mi Stadium & arenaHinkle Fieldhouse
5 mi TheatreRuoff Music Center
25 mi LandmarkSoldiers' and Sailors' MonumentPhoto 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 · Ruoff Music Center: TownePost Network, CC BY 2.0 · Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: alexeatswhales, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Lapel
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lapel
About 4 of every 100 Lapel residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
96% of working residents leave Lapel for work
Where Lapel’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Lapel
Town in Indiana, United States
Lapel is a town in Stony Creek and Green townships, Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,325 at the 2020 census, up from 2,068 in 2010.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 10 sq mi
- Elevation
- 860 ft
- ZIP code
- 46051
- Area code
- 765
Lapel’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Lapel.
Wayne Township next door grades higher for schools (A+ to Lapel’s B+) and lower for cost of living (C+ to B+).
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lapel | #99 | A | B+ | — | B+ | B |
| Wayne Township | #122 | A− | C+ | — | A+ | A− |
| Stony Creek Township | #153 | A− | B+ | — | B+ | B− |
| Pendleton | #87 | A | B | — | B+ | B+ |
Lapel, Wayne Township, Stony Creek Township and Pendleton report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lapel with a neighbor →
Questions about Lapel
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lapel, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Lapel grades A overall, better than 86% of U.S. towns and #99 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B for health and B+ for schools.
Is Lapel, IN expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.