Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Homecroft, IN

Homecroft is a tiny town in Perry Township, Marion County, on the south side of Indianapolis, squeezed into just 0.24 square miles.

Homecroft began in 1923 when Indianapolis realtor Frank Gates and his son Oliver bought 150 acres and chose the name because it suggested the desire to own a home.

The land Homecroft sits on was swampy, and in the early 1930s the developers worked with the Works Progress Administration to install storm sewers to drain it before lots were sold.

Homecroft was incorporated as a town in 1949, and in 1970 it became an 'included town' under Indianapolis's Unigov consolidation while keeping its own functioning town government.

Homecroft was designed to be exclusively residential, with homes built in Bungalow, American Craftsman, Tudor Revival, and Colonial Revival styles, and only a few commercial buildings along Madison Avenue.

A large part of Homecroft was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Homecroft Historic District in 1996, covering the Gates family's original 80-acre development.

Homecroft's population has barely changed in decades: 765 people in 1990, 751 in 2000, 722 in 2010, and 752 at the 2020 census.

The 2010 census counted 722 people in 308 households in Homecroft, giving the little town a population density of more than 3,000 people per square mile.

Homecroft grew partly because of its location near the old interurban line along Madison Avenue and, later, the convenience of Madison Avenue as a motor route into Indianapolis.