ZIP code 46227

ZIP 46227 is a small city in Marion County, Indiana, with 57,164 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 32.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 46227 earn a median of $50,993 a year, 35.1% below the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 16.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 46227 is valued at $192,600, 36.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $994 a month, 29.3% below the national figure, or roughly $11,928 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 45.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 46227 is tabulated inside Marion County, Indiana, one of 36 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 807 across Indiana. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 46227 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 46227 reports a median household income of $50,993, 15% below the $59,973 county median, and 26% below the $68,990 typical IN ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $192,600, 7% below the county figure and 15% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $994 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 46227 carries 7% at the register, assembled from the Indianapolis jurisdiction stack: the Indiana state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 46227 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 46227 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.