Batesville, Indiana.
Typical home $323,098 (+4.5% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$931 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,956 +5%
- $309,142$323,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,137 +26%
- $256,961$323,098 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.
- Batesville$1,696
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Batesville, IN rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Batesville, Ripley County, Indiana
Batesville is a city of 7,202 people in Ripley County. Half its households earn more than $62,292 a year and half less, against $70,573 across Ripley County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Ripley County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Batesville is a small city in Ripley County, Indiana, with a median age a little older than the country as a whole. Incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with typical home values that are fairly high for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, other services and shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in Batesville are Baxter Manufacturing, which makes hospital beds, Margaret Mary Community Hospital, and Batesville Tool & Die, a metal stamping and manufacturing firm. Across Ripley County there were fewer jobs last year than the year before, and the commute is a fairly long one for many people.
Things to do. A short drive away, Stapp's Circle S Ranch is a zoo, and Jericho Creek offers a quiet stretch of river. A longer drive brings you to Versailles State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors, and to Perfect North Slopes, a ski area that makes use of the cold winters.
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- 3,002households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ripley County had 11,001 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan Northeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Batesville
- Baxter ManufacturingHospital beds manufacturing1,125
- Batesville Tool & DieJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing677
- Thrive Market Batesville Fulfillment CenterGeneral warehousing and storage591
- Margaret Mary Community HospitalCritical access hospital495FTE
- Batesville Casket Doll PlantBurial caskets and cases manufacturing325
- Batesville Community School CorpSchool district280FTE
- Crum TruckingTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload231
- Kroger Cincinnati-Dayton KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores170
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,361 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Batesville’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 Ripley County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Batesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Batesville$323,098
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Batesville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Batesville32.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Batesville36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Batesville12
Zip codes with a Batesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Batesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.