Worth TownshipIN
A town of 6,688.
Is Worth Township a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Worth Township grades B+ overall, 191st among Indiana's 585 graded towns. The median household earns $123K. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 86% of the country and its schools rank ahead of 79% of Indiana towns. The catch is cost: homes are expensive, about $321K for a typical one and 4 times the Indianapolis metro’s $80K median household income. Worth Township’s median rent is $1,956 a month, against $946 a month in Indiana’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 91% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Walker Farms Park and Trails, at 21 acres.
What makes Worth Township stand out
Where Worth Township beats most towns.
Worth Township has grown 174% since 2010
2,454 counted in 2010 and 4,464 in 2020; an estimated 6,688 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 50.4% since 2020, after 81.9% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Worth Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Worth Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 98% of comparable towns) to D for walkability (better than 9%), so the B+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Lucas Oil Stadium and 36 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Worth Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaLucas Oil Stadium
20 mi Stadium & arenaGainbridge Fieldhouse
15 mi Stadium & arenaHinkle Fieldhouse
20 mi LandmarkSoldiers' and Sailors' Monument
15 mi MuseumIndianapolis Museum of Art428K visitors a year
18 mi MuseumConner PrairiePhoto 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 · 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 · Conner Prairie: Unknown, CC BY 2.5
Moving to Worth Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Worth 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Worth Township.
Worth Township draws workers from Indianapolis and beyond, has less tooth loss than most of Indiana and has household incomes well above the Indiana norm.
About half of Worth Township’s working residents commute to Indianapolis
12,450 jobs are based in Worth Township, 5.2 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 4,008 in 2013 to 12,450.
Most working residents leave Worth Township for work: only 5% work in town. 20% of Worth Township workers work from home. Since 2013, Worth Township has added 8,442 jobs, to 12,450 in 2023.
| Worth Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $123,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 20% | 7.8% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.1% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer of Worth Township’s adults have high blood pressure than in the typical Indiana or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Indiana is tooth loss: 9.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 15.4% statewide. Against the 5,316 U.S. towns with household incomes like Worth Township’s, it is healthier than 65%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
30% of adults have high blood pressure in Worth Township. Worth Township beats the Indiana average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 9.3% of adults have diabetes in Worth Township.
| Worth Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 39% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 26% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.3% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Worth Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.1% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 14.7% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 73.1% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Worth Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Worth Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 18° and about 22 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Worth Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 67% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Worth Township has set aside 0.3% of its land for conservation
1.0 miles of trail in 7 parks and preserves.
| Worth Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.3% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Main Street Park | 0.9 mi | 14 |
| 2. Walker Farms Park and Trails | — | 21 |
| 3. Anson Acres | — | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Worth Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Worth Township
About 4 of every 100 Worth Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Every workday, about 12,334 people come to Worth Township for work
Where Worth Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Worth Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Worth Township is one of twelve townships in Boone County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,454 and it contained 1,020 housing units.
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- Area
- 19 sq mi
- Elevation
- 945 ft
Worth Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Worth Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Township | #191 | B+ | C− | — | A− | A |
| Whitestown | #221 | B+ | C− | B− | A− | A |
| Zionsville | #18 | A+ | C− | A+ | A+ | A |
| Perry Township | — | — | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Center Township | #101 | A | A− | — | A− | B− |
Perry Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Worth Township, Perry Township and Center Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Worth Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Worth Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Worth Township, IN a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Worth Township grades B+ overall, better than 75% of U.S. towns and #191 of 585 in Indiana. It grades A for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Worth Township, IN expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.