Neighborhood with Newfields, Butler University and Tarkington Park.
Search this neighborhoodButler-Tarkington is a neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana with about 9,500 residents. Its edges follow the White River on the north, 38th Street on the south, Meridian Street on the east and White River Parkway on the west. Parks inside it include IMA Lake Greenway (111.8 acres), Friedman Park (17.8 acres), Tarkington Park (10.3 acres) and IWC Canal Towpath Greenway (3.7 acres). Other places inside it include Newfields, Butler University and North Meridian Street Historic District.
By area, Butler-Tarkington is zoned mostly Dwelling District 5 (D5), University Quarter (UQ1, UQ2) and Special Use District 7 (SU7). IndyGo routes that run through it include IndyGo Route 28 St. Vincent, IndyGo Route 19 Broad Ripple and IndyGo Route 38 West 38th St. The City of Indianapolis does not publish building-permit data with locations, so CivicScout has no permit information for the neighborhood; the absence of permit data here is not a finding about construction. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department offense reports that carry a map location, and traffic crashes, inside the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 1 in 25 offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime, carries no map location and is not counted, and IMPD’s public data holds no rape, sexual-assault or fondling report at all (the few filed as assaults after a rape or child-molestation call are shown at block level, about 100 meters, with no case number), so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Incidents handled by the Marion County Sheriff, the State Police, campus, hospital and airport police and by the police departments of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Speedway and Southport do not appear. Crash records arrive about five weeks late, so crash counts stop five weeks before today. The Butler University campus, inside this area, has its own campus police, so incidents on the campus are not in the IMPD feed. The town of Rocky Ripple, which lies inside the City’s Butler-Tarkington/Rocky Ripple neighborhood outline but outside the consolidated city, is cut out of this page and its reports are not counted.
View safety data →The City of Indianapolis does not publish building-permit data with locations, so CivicScout has no permit information for Butler-Tarkington; the absence of permit data here is not a finding about construction.
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View new construction →Zoning in Butler-Tarkington is mostly Dwelling District 5, University Quarter and Special Use District 7, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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View schools →A CivicScout report for any Butler-Tarkington address combines police reports, traffic crashes, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. More than 1 in 4 of the City’s 311 requests carries no map location and is not shown, so an address with none listed may still have had some.
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