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Lexington Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $248K for a typical one, or 4.4 years of the county’s $56K median household income. It grades C+ overall, ranked 457th of 585 in Indiana. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 78% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 99% of U.S. towns.
Where Lexington Township beats most towns.
Where Lexington Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Lexington Township is from typical.
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Its founding year, 1804, comes before those of 96% of the Indiana towns we grade with a known year.
The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 2012 and 3 maps from 1956 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lexington Township, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Lexington Township.
Lexington Township trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and sends most of its workers to Scottsburg and beyond.
For adults in Lexington Township, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 22%. Nearly a fifth of adults smoke cigarettes here, where Indiana’s towns sit at 17% and U.S. towns at 14%. Among adults locally, 40% have high blood pressure and 27% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Lexington Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 39% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lexington Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.4% | 15.4% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 8.1% |
| More smokers | 18.8% | 15.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The public schools here belong to the Scott County School District 2. Its one school is below. Lexington Township’s only public school teaches 205 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 205 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Lexington Township has 78 jobs for its 1,331 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
1.2% of working residents work locally in Lexington Township, against 11% in Indiana’s towns and 8% across U.S. towns. Jobs here fell by 25 from 2013 to 2023, to 78. For Lexington Township, the average trip to work is 29 minutes. The top destinations are Scottsburg (20%), Jeffersonville (7%) and Indianapolis (7%).
| Lexington Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 11% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8.7% | 10% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For Lexington Township, the July high is 87°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
4.4 miles of trail. Lexington Township’s trail network density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes are within reach (about $249K for the typical one, A− for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 22 miles.
Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 5.1% in value. 86% of households are owner-occupiers in Lexington Township. The median rent for Lexington Township comes to $846 a month.
| Lexington Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 86% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $846 a month | $947 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Lexington Township after 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2012. On expected storm and flood damage, Lexington Township sits above half of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Lexington Township break down as 37% from inland flooding and 36% from tornadoes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lexington Township
About 6 of every 100 Lexington Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Indiana.
4 notable people were born in Lexington Township.
Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States
Lexington is an unincorporated community in Lexington Township, Scott County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, located about 10 miles west of the Ohio River and 28 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky. The town itself was founded before Indiana became the 19th state in 1816 and was located in Jefferson County at the time it was platted. It was the original county seat from 1820 to 1874, before local leaders decided on a more central location at nearby Scottsburg, which created animosity between the residents of the two towns for several decades afterwards.
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7 towns share a border with Lexington Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Township | #457 | C+ | A− | — | B− | C− |
| Johnson Township | — | — | A | — | B− | D |
| Vienna Township | #556 | C− | B | — | B− | D |
| Oregon Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C+ |
| Saluda Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C+ |
| Republican Township | — | — | B+ | — | B− | C |
| Washington Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C+ |
| Graham Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C |
Johnson Township, Oregon Township, Saluda Township, Republican Township, Washington Township and Graham Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lexington Township, Johnson Township, Vienna Township, Oregon Township, Saluda Township, Republican Township, Washington Township and Graham Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lexington Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lexington Township grades C+ overall, better than 37% of U.S. towns and #457 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C− for health and B− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
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 A−.
4 notable people were born here, including William Hayden English and William E. English.
