Mars Hill
Neighborhood Intelligence

CivicScout counts Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department offense reports that carry a map location, and traffic crashes, inside the Mars Hill 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. Airport Authority, inside this area, has its own police department, so its reports are not in the city feed. Indianapolis International Airport, along its edge, is policed by the Airport Authority police, so incidents at the airport are not in the IMPD feed.

The City of Indianapolis does not publish building-permit data with locations, so CivicScout has no permit information for Mars Hill; the absence of permit data here is not a finding about construction.

Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.

Zoning in Mars Hill is mostly Special Use District 13 and Dwelling District 5, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.

The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.

A CivicScout report for any Mars Hill 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.