Pizza in Indianapolis

18 restaurants in Indianapolis list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Palace California at $5.99, listed as Build Your Own Pizza. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $17.32 at Luca Pizza Di Roma, so the two ends of the list are $11.33 apart, which is 189% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Indianapolis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 963 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Cincinnati, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Indianapolis? Pizza Palace California, at $5.99 on 7940 Michigan Rd. The same dish reaches $17.32 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.33.

What should pizza cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Indianapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 8 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Cincinnati, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $2.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.