Metro area · Indiana

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN is a metropolitan area of 11 counties in Indiana, home to 2,205,695 residents. Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area has a quality-of-life score of 68 out of 100 (high), ranking #296 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Indiana it ranks #3 of 37. It ranks best on distance to an emergency room (low), average weekly wage (high) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high), median Air Quality Index (high) and high ozone days (high).

68High
Quality-of-life score
#296 of 925 metro and micro areas
Indiana
#3 of 37 in IN
Population
2,205,695 (2025)
Land area
4,086 mi²
Density
539.8 /mi²
CBSA code
26900

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety27#671/924
  • Economy88#112/925
  • Housing56#404/925
  • Health65#323/925
  • Healthcare86#131/923
  • Environment3#887/917
  • Education79#193/925
  • Infrastructure84#153/925
  • Community66#315/925
  • Leisure & amenities60#366/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Marion CountyCentral county41992,196
  2. Hamilton CountyCentral county98387,036
  3. Hendricks CountyCentral county91193,510
  4. Johnson CountyCentral county82174,262
  5. Hancock CountyCentral county8790,969
  6. Boone CountyCentral county9780,689
  7. Morgan CountyCentral county5674,967
  8. Madison CountyOutlying county31135,088
  9. Shelby CountyOutlying county5345,882
  10. Brown CountyOutlying county6715,777
  11. Tipton CountyOutlying county6815,319

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. AndersonPrincipal city55,367
  2. CarmelPrincipal city101,651
  3. GreenwoodPrincipal city66,029
  4. IndianapolisPrincipal city885,860

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Indianapolis885,860
  2. Fishers102,337
  3. Carmel101,651
  4. Noblesville73,362
  5. Greenwood66,029
  6. Anderson55,367
  7. Westfield54,677
  8. Lawrence49,517
  9. Plainfield36,369
  10. Zionsville32,095
  11. Brownsburg31,215
  12. Franklin26,168
  13. Greenfield24,940
  14. Avon23,437
  15. Shelbyville20,296
  16. Lebanon17,812
  17. Beech Grove14,913
  18. Speedway13,968
  19. Whitestown12,466
  20. Martinsville11,933
  21. Danville11,714
  22. Bargersville10,752
  23. McCordsville10,329
  24. Mooresville9,751

Other metro and micro areas in Indiana

Areas based in Indiana, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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