Bainbridge, Indiana.
Typical home $294,581 (+5.4% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$937 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,212 +5%
- $279,369$294,581 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,223 +40%
- $210,358$294,581 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.
- Bainbridge$1,546
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Bainbridge, IN rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bainbridge, Putnam County, Indiana
Bainbridge is a town of 684 people in Putnam County. Half its households earn more than $59,712 a year and half less, against $78,378 across Putnam County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Putnam County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Putnam 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bainbridge is a very small town in Putnam County, Indiana, with a population that makes everyone's face familiar. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued well above what the incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is warm. The year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Few people work from home. Across Putnam County, the largest workplaces include Crown Equipment, Walmart and DePauw University. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw nearby. Turkey Run State Park is a protected area, and Cataract Falls is a waterfall, both a longer drive away. For history, the General Lew Wallace Study is a museum, also a longer drive away. Nothing on the list is close by, so a day out means planning a trip.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Putnam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 12,562 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Putnam County
- Ascena Retail GroupGeneral warehousing and storage927
- Crown EquipmentStackers, industrial, truck-type, manufacturing876
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage598
- DePauw UniversityUniversity or college574
- Heartland Automotive HQMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing492
- Chiyoda USAPlastics working machinery manufacturing413
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing305
- Putnam County HospitalCritical access hospital298FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,997 people in all across the county; Bainbridge has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Bainbridge’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 Putnam County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Bainbridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bainbridge$294,581
- 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.
- Bainbridge7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bainbridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bainbridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.