Battle Ground, Indiana.
Typical home $329,307 (+4.3% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$998 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,716 +4%
- $315,591$329,307 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,399 +32%
- $248,908$329,307 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.
- Battle Ground$1,728
- 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 Battle Ground, IN rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Battle Ground is a town of 1,838 people in Tippecanoe County. Half its households earn more than $110,568 a year and half less, against $60,636 across Tippecanoe County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Tippecanoe County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Battle Ground is a small town in Tippecanoe County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live in poverty than you might expect. Adults here are more likely than most to hold a four-year degree or more, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and temperatures often below freezing, while summers are warm and July is the hottest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Tippecanoe County, the largest workplaces include Purdue University, Subaru of Indiana Automotive and Lafayette Engine Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Prophetstown State Park, a protected area, and Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, an archaeological site, are both in or beside town, which suits a quiet walk or an afternoon of local history. A short drive away, the Tippecanoe River offers time by the water, and Ross–Ade Stadium is the place for a game day. Wolf Park is also in or beside town.
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- 795households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tippecanoe County had 91,936 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Lafayette Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tippecanoe County
- Purdue UniversityUniversity or college12,300
- Subaru of Indiana AutomotiveAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture6,415
- Lafayette Engine CenterDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing2,834
- Purdue University GlobalUniversity or college2,670
- Wabash Lafayette NorthTruck trailers1,780
- Tippecanoe School CorpSchool district1,456FTE
- Franciscan Health LafayetteGeneral hospital1,222FTE
- IU Health Arnett HospitalGeneral hospital1,010FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 145 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,390 people in all across the county; Battle Ground has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Battle Ground’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 Tippecanoe County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Battle Ground home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Battle Ground$329,307
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Battle Ground6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Battle Ground address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Battle Ground — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.