Best PlacesMount Summit, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Summit, 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.
Mount Summit ranks 28,591st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Noise pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cell coverage.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Summit
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.
Mount Summit's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Summit ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 90% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 88% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 87% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 83% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 80% of towns
Where Mount Summit ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 9% of towns
- School gradeD+, better than only 18% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 25% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 34% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Summit
A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Summit home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $68,826, 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 Mount Summit's effective rate of 0.66%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Mount Summit
Mount Summit runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mount Summit.
Who works in Mount Summit, and how
Work in Mount Summit centers on manufacturing and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Mount Summit
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Mount Summit.
What the weather is like in Mount Summit, month by month
Mount Summit sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 29° | 24° |
| April | 62° | 51° | 43° |
| July | 84° | 74° | 66° |
| October | 66° | 55° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Mount Summit
Indianapolis International sits about 52 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 Mount Summit
Schools across Mount Summit average a D+, better than 18% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Blue River Valley Elementary SchD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Blue River Valley Jr-sr High SchD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Summit school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Summit 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 Mount Summit against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mount Summit
Is Mount Summit a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Summit ranks 28,591st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, cheap car insurance, and a strong job market, and lowest on noise and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Summit expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $212,386. The overall cost of living runs about 21% below the national average. Set against a $68,826 median income, cost of living beats 63% of towns.
Is Mount Summit safe?
Mount Summit is safer than 43% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $284 per resident a year.
Compare Mount Summit with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Summit. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Summit 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.
Mount Summit detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Summit: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Summit: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Summit: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Summit: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Summit 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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