The 10 Snobbiest Places In Indiana For 2025


The Snobbiest places in Indiana are Carmel and Zionsville for 2025 based on Saturday Night Science.

There are all types when it comes to being a snob in Indiana. You’ve got your Wine Snobs, Book Snobs, and, of course, Clothes Snobs. Then there are the Technology Snobs, Car Snobs, and yes, even City Snobsas in, I’m better than you because I live in (insert snooty city here).

How can we tell which Indiana cities are the snobbiest? By measuring snobby things, that’s how.

We used Saturday Night Science to look at things like expensive homes, high incomes, and overly educated populations by city in Indiana. These are the criteria you’d argue with a friend over a foodie dinner about who’s snobbier.

After analyzing 116 of the state’s most populous areas over 5,000 people, we came up with this ranking of the ten snobbiest places in the state of Indiana.

The Hoosier in these places aren’t snobby, they just know they’re better than you.


Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table


The 10 Snobbiest Places In Indiana

  1. Carmel
  2. Zionsville
  3. Westfield
  4. White
  5. McCordsville
  6. St. John
  7. Bargersville
  8. Winfield
  9. Noblesville
  10. Munster

Snobbiest Cities In Indiana Map

Don’t freak out.

What’s the snobbiest place in Indiana? The snobbiest place in Indiana is Carmel based on the data. If we had their wealth and lifestyle, we’d probably be a little snobby, too.

The most laid back? That would be East Chicago.

We’re not so full of ourselves as to make this ranking up from nowhere. So here’s a look at the top ten and more on how we did it. And if you’re curious, Indiana is the 44th snobbiest in the United States.

For more Indiana reading, check out:

The 10 Snobbiest Places In Indiana For 2025

Carmel, IN

Source: Wikipedia User Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

10
/10
Population: 100,501
% Highly Educated: 74.0%
Median Income: $134,602
Median Home Price: $455,500
More on Carmel: Data

Zionsville, IN

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

10
/10
Population: 31,442
% Highly Educated: 71.0%
Median Income: $159,126
Median Home Price: $543,800
More on Zionsville: Data

3. Westfield

Westfield Location In Indiana

Westfield, IN

Source: Wikipedia User | CC BY 2.5
Overall SnackAbility

9.5
/10
Population: 51,109
% Highly Educated: 60.0%
Median Income: $119,598
Median Home Price: $391,900
More on Westfield:

4. White

Source: Public Domain
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10
Population: 11,276
% Highly Educated: 59.0%
Median Income: $118,884
Median Home Price: $343,900
More on White:

Mccordsville, IN

Source: Wikipedia User Chris Flook | CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10
Population: 9,700
% Highly Educated: 57.0%
Median Income: $113,495
Median Home Price: $327,900
More on Mccordsville: Data

St. John, IN

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

9
/10
Population: 21,639
% Highly Educated: 43.0%
Median Income: $127,449
Median Home Price: $370,800
More on St. John: Data

Bargersville, IN

Source: Wikipedia User NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10
Population: 10,163
% Highly Educated: 48.0%
Median Income: $104,160
Median Home Price: $405,100
More on Bargersville: Data

Winfield, IN

Source: Wikipedia User Dennisyerger84 | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 7,501
% Highly Educated: 38.0%
Median Income: $128,980
Median Home Price: $401,200
More on Winfield: Data

Noblesville, IN

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

9
/10
Population: 71,940
% Highly Educated: 52.0%
Median Income: $102,319
Median Home Price: $321,800
More on Noblesville: Data

Munster, IN

Source: Wikipedia User Dmytro Sergiyenko | CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall SnackAbility

9.5
/10
Population: 23,733
% Highly Educated: 49.0%
Median Income: $105,764
Median Home Price: $312,000
More on Munster: Data

Methodology: How we determined the snobbiest cities in the Hoosier State

Do you think wed just come up with this list willy-nilly? Not a chance – we only use Saturday Night Science around here.

We gathered up all of the places in Indiana with populations of 5,000 people or more. This left us with a total of 116 places. Then, we looked at each place in terms of these snoot-er-iffic criteria (And no, its not a word. English snob.):

  • Median home price (Higher is snobbier)
  • Median household income (Higher is snobbier)
  • Percent of population with a college degree (Higher is snobbier)

Incomes and college education levels come from the American Community Survey. Home prices come from Zillow.

Turned out this simple criteria was much better at sniffing out the snobby places then more snobby criteria like:

  • Libaries per capita (Higher is snobbier)
  • Museums per capita (Higher is snobbier)
  • Private schools per capita (Higher is snobbier)

From there, we ranked each of our 116 places in each category with scores from one to 116. We then averaged each places ranking into one overall score, where the lowest score went to the snobbiest place in Indiana. So lets all flip a table in honor of Carmel (with our pinkies up, of course.)

Before you get upset and ruin your blowout or something drastic here, lets remember that this is all in good fun. Would we live in one of these 10 places if we had the chance? Of course, we would.

And it’s not like your real estate agent would ever point out how snobby the town you’re moving to is. We’re here to keep you grounded, even if you’re wearing a monocle.

There You Have It – Now That You’re On Your High Horse

When it comes to snobbery, these places in Indiana are heading ever upward. Residents in these communities are well educated, well paid, and appear to have all the sophisticated culture and entertainment of an Ernst Lubitsch film right at their fingertips.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The snobbiest cities in Indiana are Carmel, Zionsville, Westfield, White, McCordsville, St. John, Bargersville, Winfield, Noblesville, and Munster.

If you’re also curious enough, here are the most laid back places in Indiana, according to science:

  1. East Chicago
  2. Gary
  3. Portland

For more Indiana reading, check out:

Table: The Snobbiest Cities In Indiana For 2025

Rank City Population Median Income Average Home Prices Adult Highly Educated
1 Carmel, IN 100,501 $134,602 $455,500 74.0%
2 Zionsville, IN 31,442 $159,126 $543,800 71.0%
3 Westfield, IN 51,109 $119,598 $391,900 60.0%
4 White, IN 11,276 $118,884 $343,900 59.0%
5 Mccordsville, IN 9,700 $113,495 $327,900 57.0%
6 St. John, IN 21,639 $127,449 $370,800 43.0%
7 Bargersville, IN 10,163 $104,160 $405,100 48.0%
8 Winfield, IN 7,501 $128,980 $401,200 38.0%
9 Noblesville, IN 71,940 $102,319 $321,800 52.0%
10 Munster, IN 23,733 $105,764 $312,000 49.0%
11 Brownsburg, IN 30,310 $105,435 $282,800 47.0%
12 Avon, IN 22,683 $97,589 $300,600 42.0%
13 Winona Lake, IN 5,073 $97,813 $242,400 52.0%
14 Dyer, IN 16,400 $101,183 $288,700 36.0%
15 Chesterton, IN 14,326 $88,536 $280,400 40.0%
16 Danville, IN 11,049 $93,080 $269,400 36.0%
17 Crown Point, IN 34,042 $95,757 $272,800 35.0%
18 Schererville, IN 29,627 $86,020 $294,600 34.0%
19 Plainfield, IN 35,783 $85,074 $263,900 34.0%
20 Pendleton, IN 5,115 $87,971 $236,200 38.0%
21 Cicero, IN 5,441 $75,278 $251,000 40.0%
22 Columbus, IN 51,104 $76,856 $231,000 41.0%
23 Ellettsville, IN 6,653 $82,238 $224,400 36.0%
24 Cumberland, IN 6,154 $84,167 $241,200 32.0%
25 Valparaiso, IN 34,377 $67,664 $250,500 40.0%
26 Greenwood, IN 64,237 $78,765 $248,700 31.0%
27 Lawrence, IN 49,284 $73,455 $220,400 35.0%
28 Cedar Lake, IN 14,686 $79,177 $259,900 25.0%
29 Porter, IN 5,208 $74,155 $259,700 25.0%
30 Fortville, IN 5,092 $82,763 $240,300 24.0%
31 New Whiteland, IN 5,641 $89,196 $185,000 28.0%
32 Sellersburg, IN 10,215 $69,851 $213,300 30.0%
33 Lowell, IN 10,911 $83,125 $236,900 22.0%
34 Batesville, IN 6,842 $66,806 $215,900 28.0%
35 Bloomington, IN 78,791 $48,918 $289,700 60.0%
36 Franklin, IN 25,999 $77,305 $212,500 24.0%
37 Indianapolis, IN 882,043 $62,995 $207,000 34.0%
38 Griffith, IN 16,228 $76,009 $200,400 26.0%
39 Greenfield, IN 24,308 $74,949 $205,800 25.0%
40 Jasper, IN 16,421 $65,283 $203,300 29.0%
41 Jeffersonville, IN 50,176 $70,157 $208,500 25.0%
42 West Lafayette, IN 44,802 $33,497 $318,100 72.0%
43 Charlestown, IN 8,118 $77,548 $191,200 23.0%
44 Speedway, IN 13,622 $57,158 $209,400 34.0%
45 Mooresville, IN 9,608 $70,228 $194,300 24.0%
46 Merrillville, IN 36,343 $64,791 $194,000 26.0%
47 Hobart, IN 29,646 $71,680 $203,400 22.0%
48 Angola, IN 9,383 $59,355 $186,900 30.0%
49 Warsaw, IN 16,592 $57,170 $175,300 33.0%
50 Fort Wayne, IN 266,235 $60,293 $169,700 28.0%
51 Portage, IN 37,951 $72,833 $210,800 16.0%
52 New Haven, IN 15,339 $67,121 $151,200 24.0%
53 Lebanon, IN 17,575 $63,773 $179,200 22.0%
54 Boonville, IN 6,681 $62,500 $143,100 26.0%
55 Lawrenceburg, IN 5,155 $52,778 $191,400 27.0%
56 Tipton, IN 5,255 $64,709 $148,800 23.0%
57 Greensburg, IN 11,585 $63,235 $181,000 20.0%
58 Auburn, IN 13,464 $62,339 $172,800 22.0%
59 Lafayette, IN 70,650 $52,946 $157,600 28.0%
60 Mount Vernon, IN 6,431 $61,527 $164,200 21.0%
61 Goshen, IN 34,374 $55,436 $175,200 23.0%
62 Madison, IN 12,277 $57,050 $186,600 22.0%
63 Greencastle, IN 9,863 $54,217 $154,000 25.0%
64 Clarksville, IN 22,121 $58,518 $172,700 22.0%
65 Seymour, IN 21,536 $63,388 $153,300 19.0%
66 Nappanee, IN 7,040 $66,944 $209,000 10.0%
67 New Albany, IN 37,589 $54,152 $169,600 23.0%
68 Mishawaka, IN 50,907 $53,120 $140,600 27.0%
69 Garrett, IN 6,540 $65,611 $142,800 17.0%
70 Rensselaer, IN 5,369 $61,648 $149,100 18.0%
71 La Porte, IN 22,125 $59,862 $143,800 20.0%
72 Shelbyville, IN 19,866 $58,532 $151,100 18.0%
73 South Bend, IN 102,866 $52,512 $124,500 29.0%
74 Rochester, IN 6,244 $60,304 $135,900 19.0%
75 Beech Grove, IN 15,082 $49,452 $169,500 21.0%
76 Bluffton, IN 10,539 $57,929 $136,800 15.0%
77 Evansville, IN 116,441 $52,251 $129,100 22.0%
78 Wabash, IN 10,378 $54,199 $115,000 22.0%
79 Westville, IN 5,291 $59,732 $152,000 5.0%
80 Kendallville, IN 10,094 $60,909 $130,600 12.0%
81 Hammond, IN 77,098 $53,950 $141,700 15.0%
82 Kokomo, IN 59,375 $54,195 $126,500 17.0%
83 Plymouth, IN 10,506 $53,115 $122,200 20.0%
84 Decatur, IN 9,769 $58,867 $132,900 12.0%
85 Martinsville, IN 11,913 $56,186 $140,400 13.0%
86 Bedford, IN 13,824 $50,253 $136,900 17.0%
87 Alexandria, IN 5,145 $60,616 $92,700 15.0%
88 Muncie, IN 64,739 $43,395 $92,000 26.0%
89 Rushville, IN 6,186 $57,269 $120,000 13.0%
90 Salem, IN 6,484 $51,786 $136,800 14.0%
91 Elkhart, IN 53,726 $47,885 $126,900 18.0%
92 Terre Haute, IN 58,491 $41,960 $109,500 23.0%
93 Washington, IN 12,192 $50,000 $130,700 15.0%
94 Huntington, IN 17,026 $51,220 $104,300 18.0%
95 Huntingburg, IN 6,504 $52,327 $126,500 14.0%
96 Crawfordsville, IN 16,408 $49,327 $134,100 14.0%
97 Lake Station, IN 13,109 $56,306 $124,800 9.0%
98 Princeton, IN 8,347 $57,234 $117,100 10.0%
99 Richmond, IN 35,551 $46,395 $107,600 20.0%
100 Vincennes, IN 16,676 $50,238 $98,700 17.0%
About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson earned his masters in Business Administration from the Drucker School At Claremont Graduate University. He has written for 39 publications across the country and ran the media relations department at Movoto, a real estate portal based in San Francisco. He has been featured in over 500 publications as an expert in real estate and as an authority on real estate trends.

Nick's the creator of the HomeSnacks YouTube channel that now has over 260,000 subscribers and is an excellent source to learn about different parts of the country.

18 thoughts on “The 10 Snobbiest Places In Indiana For 2025

  1. Contrary to this article, Zionsville is NOT named after the hill of Zion in the Bible. It is named after William Zion, our town’s founder way back in the 1850’s.

  2. Really? What kind of person writes this drivel? Class warfare much? This is a really lame piece of attempted journalism. It qualifies more as the whining of a sad, twisted, little man.

  3. So if you have art galleries you are “snobby”? How about you are showing the creative side of your residents? Maybe if we let people do stuff like that along with more art and music in the schools we actually would be a better society.

  4. I went from being in one of these snobby towns to living in the country. Glad I made the switch! They are very snobby!

  5. I never forgot a game at HS Girls Soccer, 2014 at Zionsville, Zionsville students yelled-make fun at Westfield goalie during the game action about his father having a cancer. I found this really that low I ever witness. Fans and players were paused at that moment… Snobbing? Nah Stupidity high class children…Guess their parents are too busy to raise them respectfully.

  6. Zionsville is actually named after our founder, William Zion. Research next time. But it’s okay, we are still better than you.

  7. I can tell you all for an absolute fact (regarding the longer version of the list) that Columbus is not nearly as snobby as it might be ranked. More pressing though is that Bloomington deserves to be top 5 (maybe #1) with great ease. The snobbiest and frankly most overrated place in Indiana

  8. I know someone who moved to Carmel and she thinks she’s above everybody else. The bitch has been married 5 times. The only reason she lives there is she rents. She married a much older guy who she thinks has lots of money. When that well runs dry, she’ll be off to find number 6.

  9. No Fishers? No Newburgh? And Linton is on the list ahead of Vincennes?

    ding ding ding…back to the stats Mr. Author of the List. Me thinks you blew it….prove me wrong if you dare.

  10. Stereotyping — all in good fun? 1500 students in the Carmel school district rely on free and reduced lunches. Fewer than other communities, maybe, but significant still, especially if you are one of the hungry ones. And those with wealth are not all snobs. Many people donate time and money, but are humble and don’t publicize it. Those “snobs” lift up communities, not break them down like your idiotic article.

    1. Sad but true indeed as a Avon old timer watching it turn into something I despise, I have witnessed people live in empty homes and actually share meals just to have the prestigious addresses. Shame on the parents of those hungry children. As a central Indiana resident all my life yes sad but true the top 3 yes they nailed it not sure of the order of 1 and 2 but Avon strives to be the next Carmel.

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