Bath, Indiana.
Typical home $279,102 (+8.6% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$862 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,992 +9%
- $257,110$279,102 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,799 +36%
- $205,303$279,102 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.
- Bath$1,465
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Bath, IN rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bath, Franklin County, Indiana
Bath is a township of 355 people in Franklin County. Unemployment in Franklin County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 10.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bath is a very small township in Franklin County, Indiana, in the Whitewater River country of the southeastern part of the state. Homes here are typically worth less than a great many places around the country, though a typical home still costs a good deal. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing only barely, and summers turn properly hot in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Across Franklin County, household incomes sit at a comfortable level and unemployment is low, lower than a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown over the past year. Among the county's largest workplaces are Batesville Tool & Die, a metal stamping and manufacturing firm, the Franklin County Community School district, and Franklin County Government.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Harker's Run, a river, and Highlandtown Lake are both a short drive away, as is Hueston Woods State Park, which is built around a reservoir. A longer drive brings you to the Richmond Art Museum, and the Whitewater Shaker Settlement, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive. Snowfall is modest in a typical winter, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 4,517 jobs in 2025, 10.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Batesville Tool & DieJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing677
- Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district435FTE
- Franklin County Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district348FTE
- Batesville Community School CorpSchool district280FTE
- Kroger Cincinnati-Dayton KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores170
- Franklin County GovernmentCounty commissioners149
- Owens Corning Roofing & Asphalt LLC - Brookville PlantAsphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials119
- Town of BrookvilleCity and town councils47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,248 people in all across the county; Bath has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Franklin County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Franklin County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Bath home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bath$279,102
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bath address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bath — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bath
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47003 | West College Corner | 1,182 | — | $181,706 |
| 47010 | Bath | 207 | — | $259,140 |