Best PlacesVenerable Flackville, Indianapolis, IN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis ranks 5,155th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. The weather pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on affordable childcare.

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The best neighborhoods in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis' strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis with other neighborhoods.

Where Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis ranks high

  • Cheap childcare$808 a month, better than 88% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 84% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than 80% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 79% of neighborhoods
  • Heat safetyBetter than 72% of neighborhoods

Where Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 54 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than only 7% of neighborhoods
  • Household income$46,883 median, better than only 13% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 23% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

A household needs to earn about $46,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $46,883, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$46,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,063
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $174,432 home
Median rent
$1,073
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$889
Property tax$116
Homeowners insurance$58

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 Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis' effective rate of 0.80%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
36
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
14%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.3
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4922%
50 to 6419%
65 and older14%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis.


Who works in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis, and how

Work in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis centers on wholesale trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
4%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.0%
below the national average
Job growth
−4.2%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Wholesale trade15%
Health care & social13%
Retail trade10%
Admin & support services10%
Manufacturing10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 88%
  • Work from home 4%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 8%

Life in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis has more restaurants and bars per resident than 68% of neighborhoods. That concentrates in some parts of Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
21
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 56.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 68% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis, month by month

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis sees roughly 54 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January40°30°22°
April67°54°42°
July87°77°67°
October70°58°47°

Flying in and out of Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Indianapolis International sits about 8 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.2 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
IND
Indianapolis International, about 8 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
45th-busiest in the US, 92 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Schools across Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis average a C−, better than 30% of neighborhoods.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis 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 Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis

Is Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis ranks 5,155th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on affordable childcare, cheap car insurance, and state infrastructure, and lowest on the weather and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $174,432. The overall cost of living runs about 23% below the national average. Set against a $46,883 median income, cost of living beats 23% of neighborhoods.

Is Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis safe?

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis is safer than 24% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $560 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis 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.

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Venerable Flackville, Indianapolis detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.