Atlanta, Indiana.
Typical home $345,930 (+6.3% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,063 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,415 +6%
- $325,515$345,930 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,846 +35%
- $256,084$345,930 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.
- Atlanta$1,816
- 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 Atlanta, IN rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlanta, Hamilton County, Indiana
Atlanta is a town of 712 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $69,286 a year and half less, against $121,530 across Hamilton County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atlanta is a very small town in Hamilton County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect in the county. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and residents are of middle age on the whole.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Hamilton County, some of the largest workplaces are Gaylor Electric, Hamilton Southeastern Schools and Stratosphere Quality, and the county has been adding jobs. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Pipe Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Mounds State Park, a protected area, and to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, one of the best known museums in the region. Winters here are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 167,841 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tipton Southwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Hamilton County
- SMC Corporation2,591
- Allegion US Holding Company2,195
- CNO Financial Group1,704
- Miso1,496
- Riverview Health1,400
- Delta Faucet Co986
- IU Health North Hospital895
- KAR Auction Services887
From Hamilton County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Hamilton County Economic Development Corporation, Lightcast 2026; DatabaseUSA.com 2026”), as Indiana’s State Board of Accounts publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlanta’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 Hamilton County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Atlanta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlanta$345,930
- 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.
- Atlanta7
Zip codes with a Atlanta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlanta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.