Brook, Indiana.
Typical home $169,165 (+0.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$511 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,397 +1%
- $167,768$169,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,303 +28%
- $131,862$169,165 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.
- Brook$888
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Brook, IN rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brook, Newton County, Indiana
Brook is a town of 939 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $53,571 a year and half less, against $75,481 across Newton County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brook is a small town in Newton County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit modest. Incomes in town run well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect from the ownership rates. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Newton County, some of the largest workplaces are Adkev, which makes motor vehicle moldings and plastic extrusions, North Newton School, and Rose Acre Farms, an egg producer. The commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, while the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Iroquois River is a longer drive away, as is J C Murphey Lake, a reservoir. The Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes open country and birdwatching.
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- 338households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 3,240 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kentland weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- AdkevMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing180
- North Newton School CorpSchool district163FTE
- South Newton School CorpSchool district142FTE
- Rose Acre FarmsChicken egg production94
- Aperion Care DemotteSkilled nursing facilities90
- Premium WatersSpring waters, purifying and bottling63
- In-npdi-indianaAgriculture44
- Running SupplyDistribution center41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 608 people in all across the county; Brook has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brook’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 Newton County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Brook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brook$169,165
- 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.
- Brook7
Zip codes with a Brook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.