Boswell, Indiana.
Typical home $169,024 (+4.4% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$581 (+190%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,134 +4%
- $161,890$169,024 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,398 +45%
- $116,626$169,024 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.
- Boswell$887
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Boswell, IN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boswell, Warren County, Indiana
Boswell is a town of 800 people in Warren County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boswell is a very small town in Warren County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Residents are around the middle of the age range, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Poverty is more common here than in much of the country, and winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Boswell are crane and rigging companies, including Fowler IN Barnhart Crane and Rigging, Fowler IN Barnhart Northeast and Fowler IN Barnhart Plant Services. Unemployment in Warren County is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs. Few people work from home, and most commutes are a moderate drive.
Things to do. For a day out, Williamsport Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away. Prophetstown State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for walking and being outdoors. Fort Ouiatenon is a historic fort, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 316households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 1,980 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 17 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boswell 4WNW weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Flex N Gate CovingtonOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing243
- TMF CenterMachine shops206
- Flex-N-Gate LogisticsMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload126
- Tru-FlexCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing104
- MSD Warren CountySchool district96FTE
- Ascension St. Vincent WilliamsportCritical access hospital73FTE
- KuriTec ManufacturingHoses, reinforced, rubber or plastics, manufacturing72
- Warren DairyDairy farm64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,033 people in all across the county; Boswell has two of its own. School districts come 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 wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boswell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Warren County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Boswell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boswell$169,024
- 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.
- Boswell6
Zip codes with a Boswell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boswell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.