Birdseye, Indiana.
Typical home $231,513 (+7.3% in a year). Jasper, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$694 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,685 +7%
- $215,828$231,513 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,401 +38%
- $168,112$231,513 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.
- Birdseye$1,215
- 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 Birdseye, IN rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Birdseye, Dubois County, Indiana
Birdseye is a town of 417 people in Dubois County. Half its households earn more than $55,750 a year and half less, against $75,979 across Dubois County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dubois County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dubois County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Birdseye is a very small town in Dubois County, Indiana, home to a close-knit community of residents. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here are worth less than in many parts of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and nights well below it, while July is hot.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Dubois County, some of the largest workplaces are Masterbrand Cabinets, Memorial Hosp & Health Care CTR and Farbest Foods Huntingburg. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is low and little changed.
Things to do. Patoka Lake, a reservoir, and Ferdinand State Forest are both a short drive away, which makes the area good for time on the water or under the trees. Potts Creek Rockshelter, an archaeological site, is also a short drive. For a bigger outing, Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Dubois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dubois County had 27,902 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Patoka Lake weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dubois County
- Masterbrand CabinetsWood kitchen cabinets and countertop manufacturing1,711
- Memorial Hosp & Health Care CTRGeneral hospital930FTE
- Farbest Foods HuntingburgPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing730
- Kimball ElectronicsPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing526
- Meyer DistributingMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers445
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters427
- Greater Jasper Consolidated Schs SchoolsSchool district390FTE
- Masterbrand - Jasper OpsBathroom vanities, stock or custom wood, manufacturing386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 77 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,901 people in all across the county; Birdseye has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Birdseye’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Dubois County and the Jasper, IN metro.
Birdseye home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Birdseye$231,513
- 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 Birdseye address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Birdseye — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.