Attica, Indiana.
Typical home $195,553 (+4.8% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$603 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,868 +5%
- $186,685$195,553 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,088 +34%
- $145,465$195,553 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.
- Attica$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 Attica, IN rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Attica, Fountain County, Indiana
Attica is a city of 3,036 people in Fountain County. Half its households earn more than $68,931 a year and half less, against $62,542 across Fountain County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Fountain County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Attica is a small city in Fountain County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, though a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with snow most years, while summers turn warm.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest source of work for residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, other services and shops. Harrison Steel Castings, a steel foundry, and C&D Trojan, which makes batteries, are among the biggest workplaces in Attica, along with Attica Consolidated School. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home. Across Fountain County, unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, but the number of jobs has fallen.
Things to do. Williamsport Falls, a waterfall in or beside town, is the closest natural sight. A short drive away is Portland Arch Nature Preserve, a protected area. Turkey Run State Park, also a protected area, lies a longer drive away and is among the better known places to hike in the region.
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- 1,291households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fountain County had 4,710 jobs in 2025, 4.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Attica 2E weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Attica
- Harrison Steel CastingsSteel foundries414
- C&D TrojanBatteries, storage, manufacturing168
- Attica Consolidated School CorpSchool district87FTE
- Niemann Foods67
- AtticaMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 672 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Attica’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 Fountain County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Attica home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Attica$195,553
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Attica listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Attica24.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Attica29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Attica7
Zip codes with a Attica address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Attica — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.