Amo, Indiana.
Typical home $212,782 (-0.5% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$629 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,162 -1%
- $213,944$212,782 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,472 +27%
- $167,310$212,782 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Amo$1,117
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Amo, IN fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amo, Hendricks County, Indiana
Amo is a town of 408 people in Hendricks County. Half its households earn more than $91,250 a year and half less, against $101,144 across Hendricks County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Hendricks County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hendricks County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Amo is a very small town in Hendricks County, Indiana, with far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run a little below the county's, with homes typically priced modestly. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Hendricks County, some of the largest workplaces are UPS, Hendricks Regional Health and Avon Community School. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and commutes are long, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The closest bigger outings are in Indianapolis, a longer drive away. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a race track and one of the best known in the country, and The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is a museum that suits families with younger children. The Indianapolis Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 137households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hendricks County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hendricks County had 81,450 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 22 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greencastle West weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hendricks County
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,958
- Hendricks Regional HealthGeneral hospital1,952FTE
- H.G. Indiana DistributorsGeneral warehousing and storage1,286
- Avon Community School CorpSchool district1,280FTE
- Brownsburg Community School CorpSchool district1,161FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,153
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,071
- IU Health West HospitalGeneral hospital970FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 191 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,818 people in all across the county; Amo has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hendricks County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Amo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amo$212,782
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Amo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.