What is the population of Fairmount, Indiana?

Fairmount has a population of approximately 2,662 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Fairmount, Indiana located?

Fairmount is located in Indiana, United States, at approximate coordinates 40.4173°, -85.6477°.

What is the median household income in Fairmount?

The median household income in Fairmount is approximately $51,739 based on the most recent open data.

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Fairmount

Total population

2,662

Median home value

$103,200

11.1%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$51,739

Fairmount$52k

National$74k

Elevation263 m

Land area4.1 km²

Weather85°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Coordinates40.42°, -85.65°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

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City facts

Elevation

263 m

Area

4.1 km²

Official website

www.fairmount-in.us

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Overview

Fairmount is a town in Fairmount Township, Grant County in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,682 at the 2020 census. It is 55 miles (88 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Largely a bedroom community for nearby Marion, Fairmount is best known as the boyhood home of actor James Dean, who is buried there.

History & geography

History

The Fairmount area was settled in the 1830s mostly by Quakers from North Carolina. The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia; it was formally incorporated in 1870. After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became part of the Indiana Gas Boom and a center of the glass industry for the rest of the 19th century. Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity. In the 1940s, James Dean lived with an aunt and uncle, Ortense and Marcus Winslow, on a farm north of Fairmount. He attended Fairmount High School, graduating in 1949. After his death in 1955, Dean was buried in Park Cemetery. In 1996, a small Memorial Park north of the town's business district was dedicated in his memory with a bronze bust by Hollywood artist Kenneth Kendall. The 1988 music video for British singer Morrissey's "Suedehead," directed by Tim Broad, was filmed on location in Fairmount, Indiana. The video is a tribute to his idol, James Dean, and features several of Dean's childhood haunts, including his family farm, high school, and gravesite at Park Cemetery During the prosperity of the 1960s, Fairmount enjoyed a time of building with a new town hall, water works, post office and elementary school. At the end of the decade the local school district merged with a neighboring one, forming the Madison-Grant united school district. A new high school was built for this district, and Fairmount High School became a middle school. When a new junior high school was opened in 1986, the Fairmount High School building was permanently closed. The Baldwin Addition Historic District, Fairmount Commercial…