Brookston, Indiana.
Typical home $246,030 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,414 +6%
- $232,616$246,030 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,653 +42%
- $173,377$246,030 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.
- Brookston$1,291
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Brookston, IN rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookston, White County, Indiana
Brookston is a town of 1,631 people in White County. Half its households earn more than $63,182 a year and half less, against $67,303 across White County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in White County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookston is a small town in White County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is the warmest and summers are comfortably warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across White County, some of the largest workplaces are Twin Lakes School, White County Government and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has barely moved. Commutes are fairly typical, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Tippecanoe River is a short drive away, as is Prophetstown State Park, a protected area good for walking and time outdoors. Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, an archaeological site with a place in Indiana's history, is also a short drive off. Indiana Beach, an amusement park, lies a longer drive away.
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- 700households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. White County had 8,806 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 20 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chalmers West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White County
- Twin Lakes School CorpSchool district300FTE
- White County GovernmentPersonnel offices, government247
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Girtz IndustriesRadiator shields and enclosures, sheet metal, manufacturing225
- Ball Beverage Pkg 192 Monticello332431 aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing224
- Regal RexnordRoller bearings manufacturing211
- Global Harvest FoodsBird feed, prepared, manufacturing171
- Rose Acre FarmsPerishable prepared food manufacturing164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,965 people in all across the county; Brookston 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- 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 Brookston’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 White County.
Brookston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookston$246,030
- 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.
- Brookston16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookston5
Zip codes with a Brookston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.