Best PlacesLeisure, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Leisure, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Leisure ranks 12,101st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Leisure
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Leisure's strengths and weaknesses
Where Leisure ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 96% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 91% of towns
- Household income$109,316 median, better than 90% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 85% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 80% of towns
Where Leisure ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 8% of towns
- Short commute36.8 minutes each way, better than only 10% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Leisure
A household needs to earn about $52,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Leisure home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $109,316, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Leisure's effective rate of 0.61%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Leisure
Leisure runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Leisure.
Who works in Leisure, and how
Work in Leisure centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Leisure
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Leisure.
What the weather is like in Leisure, month by month
Leisure sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 27° | 21° |
| April | 62° | 50° | 40° |
| July | 85° | 73° | 61° |
| October | 66° | 54° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Leisure
Indianapolis International sits about 51 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.2 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Leisure
Schools across Leisure average a C, better than 34% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tri Central ElementaryC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Tipton Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- Madison-grant Jr./sr. High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
- Tipton High SchoolC · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Leisure school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Leisure measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Leisure against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Leisure
Is Leisure a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Leisure ranks 12,101st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, cheap car insurance, and high incomes, and lowest on tree cover and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Leisure expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $204,310. The overall cost of living runs about 19% below the national average. Set against a $109,316 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Leisure safe?
Yes, Leisure is safer than 85% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $176 per resident a year.
Compare Leisure with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Leisure. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Leisure represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Leisure detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Leisure: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Leisure: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Leisure: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Leisure: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Leisure detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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