Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Indian Hills's standout: the median household earns $192K. Overall it grades C, 80th among Kentucky's 138 graded towns. It is healthier than 92% of U.S. towns. Its weakest subject is schools: its schools rank behind 90% of the state's. 85% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Indian Hills, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 26% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only 4 of Kentucky’s 238 towns score lower on cost of living. Indian Hills has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Midlands and Blankenbaker Station.
Where Indian Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Indian Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Indian Hills is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for schools (better than 10%), so the C overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,182 in 1970, 2,860 in 2020. The archive holds 8 maps from 1905 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Indian Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
4 mi Stadium & arenaLynn Family Stadium
8 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
5 mi Stadium & arenaKFC Yum! Center
7 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumUnited States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lynn Family Stadium: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · KFC Yum! Center: Jamesmac96, CC BY 3.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Indian 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 Indian Hills.
Indian Hills has less food insecurity than most of Kentucky and sends most of its workers to Louisville and beyond, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Kentucky.
Its one school is below. The Jefferson County school district runs its public schools. Indian Hills’ only public school teaches 425 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 425 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KY on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Kentucky is food insecurity: 5% of its 2,250 adults worry about having enough food, against 15.5% statewide. Against the 1,081 U.S. towns with household incomes like Indian Hills’s, it is less healthy than 71%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
14% of Indian Hills adults binge drink. Among 141 Kentucky towns, just one has a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Indian Hills. The town beats the Kentucky average on 25 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 2.
| Indian Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 18% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 27% | 25% |
| What stands out | Indian Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5% | 15.5% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 4.2% | 11.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 13.3% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Indian Hills has 280 jobs for its 1,185 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 26.4% of workers work from home, against 10.2% across Kentucky.
1.1% of working residents work locally in Indian Hills. Only 6 of the 142 Kentucky towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Indian Hills. The typical journey to work locally is 18 minutes. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs here rose by 55, to 280.
| Indian Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $192,000 | $59,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.6% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 72% of U.S. communities. The national flood insurance program has paid 504 claims in Indian Hills since 1978. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 76% come from inland flooding and 17% from tornadoes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Summer afternoons peak near 88° in July, and January nights bottom out around 25°; snowfall runs to about 4 inches a winter. The seasons in Indian Hills: chilly winters, warm summers, with plenty of rain.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest park or preserve is Caperton Swamp, at 29 acres. There are 0.7 miles of trail across 1 park or preserve.
| Indian Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.3% | 1.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Caperton Swamp | 0.7 mi | 29 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Indian Hills’ level of property crime stands at 16.3 per 1,000 residents. Only 5 of the 115 Kentucky towns we compare have a lower violent offense rate than Indian Hills. Police in Indian Hills reported no violent crime.
| Indian Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 16.3 per 1,000 residents | 8.2 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 1.3 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
At 9.5 years of the Louisville/Jefferson County metro’s $74K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 99% of Kentucky towns; that ratio is one input to its D for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $6,444, against $1,544 across Kentucky, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
No town among the 142 in Kentucky we compare has a higher share of homes lived in by their owners than Indian Hills. On the market in the town: a median 48 days to sell. In Indian Hills, the typical sale closed at 97.5% of the list price.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
11 within 15 miles of the center of Indian Hills
About 1 of every 100 Indian Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
2 places in Indian Hills on the National Register of Historic Places.
City in Kentucky, United States
Indian Hills is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,860 as of the 2020 census. Indian Hills and the nearby cities of Mockingbird Valley, Glenview, and Anchorage have been cited as Louisville's most prosperous suburbs since the mid-20th century. Indian Hills was among the nation's highest-income places as of the 2000 U.S. census.
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3 towns share a border with Indian Hills.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Hills | #80 | C | D | B− | D | A |
| Riverwood | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Glenview | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rolling Fields | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Riverwood, Glenview and Rolling Fields aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Indian Hills with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Indian Hills grades C overall, better than 34% of U.S. towns and #80 of 138 in Kentucky. It grades A for health, B− for safety and D for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $699,000, 203% above the Kentucky 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 D.
