Town · Morgan County, Indiana

Monrovia, Indiana

Monrovia is a town in Morgan County, Indiana, part of the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area. It has 2,055 residents. Monrovia, Indiana has a quality-of-life score of 48 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,070 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Indiana it ranks #119 of 353 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), hospital quality rating (high) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and pharmacies (low).

48Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,070 of 15,651 cities and towns
Indiana: #119 of 353 in IN
Population: 2,055 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,066.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1850580

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety22#12,246/15,637
Economy71#4,517/15,631
Housing96#535/14,977
Health38#9,646/15,609
Healthcare50#7,837/15,650
Environment33#10,286/15,453
Education55#6,989/15,649
Infrastructure59#6,460/15,650
Community51#7,648/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,681/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Monrovia, Indiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Morgan County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.308
99/100Indiana 0.452United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Indiana 3.4United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMorgan County value
New homes permitted · high31.6 /1k
98/100Indiana 3.9 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low2.0%
91/100Indiana 9.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Drought exposure · low2%
89/100Indiana 19%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAMorgan County value
Math scores · high3.35
86/100Indiana 3.19United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
4/100Indiana 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.6 /10k
7/100Indiana 3.8 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value
Pharmacies · low0.8 /10k
8/100Indiana 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value
Firearm deaths · high23.2 /100k
9/100Indiana 14.6 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMorgan County value
Suicide rate · high24.6 /100k
9/100Indiana 16.1 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMorgan County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Indiana 13.5United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMorgan County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,610 (2015-2019) → 2,055 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
64.8 /1k (2021) → 31.6 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−51%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Average commute timeWorsening
25.6 min (2015-2019) → 37.8 min (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
15.2% (2015-2019) → 22.7% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 2.5× (2020-2024)
+35%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
1.7% (2015-2019) → 6.5% (2020-2024)
+4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Monrovia, Indiana improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Price / income+0.7×1.9× → 2.5×

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Monrovia, Indiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.6 min2015-2019	37.8 min2020-2024	+12.2 min	Within the margin of error	1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.2%2015-2019	22.7%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Broadband subscriptions	86.9%2015-2019	91.3%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	0.51%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
High school diploma or higher	90.5%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	38%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3382015-2019	0.3082020-2024	−0.030	Within the margin of error	74%
Median household income	$77,0962015-2019	$92,3442020-2024	+20%	Within the margin of error	32%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	18.6%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	31%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Monrovia, Indiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Monrovia, Indiana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Monrovia, Indiana itself moved −8.3 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,055 residents (±572)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

693 households (±193)

Monrovia, Indiana
Indiana share

Under $25k5.2%†36
$25k–50k8.4%†58
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

693 households (±193)

Monrovia, Indiana
Indiana share

Own89%†616
Rent11%†77

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,021 workers (±287)

Monrovia, Indiana
Indiana share

Drive alone76%776
Carpool7.1%†72
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Morgan County, the county holding most of Monrovia's residents.

Morgan County has 1,248 employer establishments, 170 for every 10,000 residents (0.69× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Indiana's), with 13,063 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,503. The Census Bureau also counts 5,063 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,248; 5,063 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 170; US 248 · Indiana 226
Paid employees: 13,063
Average annual pay: $45,503; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Morgan County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	140	19.1	1.23×About typical	864	$60,507	560
Restaurants and other eating places	86	11.7	0.64×Fewer than typical	1,570	$19,299	17
Ambulatory health care services	69	9.4	0.45×Fewer than typical	1,003	$70,744	152
Building equipment contractors	60	8.2	1.36×More than typical	438	$59,212	134
Lessors of real estate	54	7.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	114	$34,518	469
Truck transportation	45	6.1	1.21×About typical	160	$59,469	145
Religious organizations	44	6	1.08×About typical	339	$23,277	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	42	5.7	0.85×About typical	382	$35,720	318
Construction of buildings	41	5.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	231	$57,255	247
Full-service restaurants	40	5.5	0.71×Fewer than typical	515	$22,724	9
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	35	4.8	1.45×More than typical	242	$67,103	78
Gasoline stations	33	4.5	1.39×More than typical	253	$24,036	—

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 73,245 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $4,120 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Monrovia, Indiana: $2.00 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $4,120
Per resident: $2.00; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$4,120100%

Top recipients

VETERANS ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES LLC$4,120100%

Spending by fiscal year

4.1KFY2026

What was bought

Health & medical$4,120100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$4,120100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Monrovia, Indiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Monrovia, Indiana's figures are part of those of Morgan County, IN ($6.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Monrovia is mostly in Morgan County.

See federal money in Morgan County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Monrovia, Indiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

James R. BairdR-IN-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 6.2%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Morgan County54100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN68

Other cities and towns in Morgan County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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