Bowling Green, Indiana.
Typical home $213,483 (+9.1% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$658 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,842 +9%
- $195,641$213,483 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,346 +32%
- $162,137$213,483 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.
- Bowling Green$1,121
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bowling Green, IN rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowling Green, Clay County, Indiana
Bowling Green is in Clay County. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 5.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowling Green is a community in Clay County, in west-central Indiana. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with snow falling in most winters and rain and melted snow arriving steadily through the year. Dressing in layers and keeping a warm coat handy will serve you well across the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Jobs in the county fell last year, but unemployment is lower now than it was a year ago, which suggests that work has been steadier of late.
Things to do. Cataract Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places to visit. Owen–Putnam State Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers woods for walking, and Jordan Creek, a river in or beside town, is the closest water for a quiet stroll.
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What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 7,742 jobs in 2025, 5.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 16 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spencer weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Great Dane - BrazilTruck trailer manufacturing897
- Clay Community SchoolsSchool district608FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores144
- Morris Manufacturing & SalesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing129
- Towne park senior livingSkilled nursing facilities122
- Technifab ProductsMetal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing120
- Cloverleaf HealthcareNursing homes116
- Metals and AdditivesLead oxides manufacturing104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,311 people in all across the county; Bowling Green 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clay 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 Clay County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Bowling Green home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowling Green$213,483
- 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 Bowling Green address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowling Green — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.