Ashley, Indiana.
Typical home $195,463 (+4.7% in a year). Auburn, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$589 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,860 +5%
- $186,603$195,463 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,575 +35%
- $144,888$195,463 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.
- Ashley$1,026
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Ashley, IN rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashley, DeKalb County, Indiana
Ashley is a town of 1,026 people in DeKalb County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashley is a small town in DeKalb County, in the northeast corner of Indiana. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits fairly modest by national standards. The population is on the younger side, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, July being the warmest, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Manufacturing is the main source of work for residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and the building trades. Ashley Industrial Molding, Parker Hannifin and Capstone FD Ashley are among the largest workplaces in town, covering plastics, fluid power equipment and warehousing. Most people drive to work, and the commute is fairly short, while very few work from home. Unemployment in DeKalb County has stayed about where it was a year earlier, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Pokagon State Park and Chain O'Lakes State Park are both protected areas, and Lake James is a lake; each is a longer drive away. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away, and suits a rainy or snowy day indoors.
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- 470households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 21,585 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 39 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Angola weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashley
- Ashley Industrial Molding - AshleyMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing203
- Parker HannifinFluid power cylinder and actuator manufacturing35
- Capstone FD AshleyGeneral warehousing and storage33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 271 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 DeKalb County and the Auburn, IN metro.
Ashley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashley$195,463
- 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.
- Ashley6
Zip codes with a Ashley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.