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Settled in 1937, this town now has 1,800 residents.
Meridian Hills’ best subject grades are an A+ for incomes and health and an A− for civic life; its weakest is a C− for cost of living. 80% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Meridian Hills, where Indiana’s towns sit at 22% and U.S. towns at 29%. No town in Indiana scores higher than Meridian Hills on health. Meridian Hills is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. 16% of the land in Meridian Hills is conserved, above both the Indiana town median (1.9%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). Foster Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. Meridian Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Meridian Hills beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Meridian Hills | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 4.3% | 14.7% |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Meridian Hills is from typical.
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Census counts: 708 in 1950, 1,774 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2020 and 4 maps from 1952 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Meridian Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaLucas Oil Stadium
9 mi Stadium & arenaGainbridge Fieldhouse
3 mi Stadium & arenaHinkle Fieldhouse
8 mi LandmarkSoldiers' and Sailors' Monument
5 mi MuseumIndianapolis Museum of Art428K visitors a year
5 mi MuseumThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis1.0M visitors a yearLucas 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 · Hinkle Fieldhouse: Peetlesnumber1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: alexeatswhales, CC BY 2.0 · Indianapolis Museum of Art: No machine-readable author provided. Cszmurlo assumed (based on copyright claims, CC BY 3.0 · The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: HstryQT, CC BY 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Meridian Hills, 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 Meridian Hills.
For adults in Meridian Hills, the share who get no exercise outside work is 13%. No town among the 590 in Indiana we compare has a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Meridian Hills. Also worth knowing: the town does better than the Indiana average on 26 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 2.
| Meridian Hills | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.9% | 17% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 26% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.4% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Meridian Hills | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 4.3% | 14.7% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.9% | 15.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Trails total 0.4 miles in 2 parks and preserves. Meridian Hills’ trail network density stands at 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Blickman Trail Park | 0.4 mi | 7 |
| 2. Marott Park and Nature Preserve | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
In July, afternoons reach 84°; in January, nights fall to 20°, and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Meridian Hills’ typical journey to work comes in at 20 minutes. Only 5 of the 594 Indiana towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Meridian Hills. Among working residents here, 2% work locally. Employers in Meridian Hills added 111 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 562.
| Meridian Hills | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $212,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 20% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 0.8% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA puts 72% of Meridian Hills’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 11% to tornadoes. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 57% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 9 flood insurance claims have been paid out in the town.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Meridian Hills, 97% of households are owner-occupiers.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
10 within 15 miles of the center of Meridian Hills
About 2 of every 100 Meridian Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Town in Indiana, United States
Meridian Hills is a town in Washington Township, Marion County, Indiana, about 8 miles (13 km) north of downtown Indianapolis. It had a population of 1,774 at the 2020 census, up from 1,616 in 2010.
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One town shares a border with Meridian Hills.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Hills | — | — | C− | — | B− | A+ |
| Williams Creek | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Meridian Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Meridian Hills reports no FBI crime data of its own. Williams Creek isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Meridian Hills with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $662,000, 157% above the Indiana typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
