Butlerville, Indiana.
Typical home $216,733 (+5.6% in a year). North Vernon, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$708 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,559 +6%
- $205,173$216,733 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,025 +38%
- $156,708$216,733 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.
- Butlerville$1,138
- 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 Butlerville, IN rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butlerville, Jennings County, Indiana
Butlerville, in Jennings County, had 300 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jennings County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jennings 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Butlerville is a very small community in Jennings County, Indiana, with a population that you could count among the smallest of any place on this site. Homes here are typically valued well below what many buyers expect to pay in other parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows below it, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents most often work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Jennings County, the largest workplaces include Jennings County School, Walmart and Martinrea Industries, North Vernon Division. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor places lie close by. Selmier State Forest and Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas a short drive away, and Muscatatuck County Park is another short drive. For a longer outing, Clifty Falls State Park is a waterfall park a longer drive away.
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What people in Jennings County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jennings County had 7,914 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Vernon Ese weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jennings County
- Jennings County School CorporationSchool district628FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse556
- Dave O'Mara ContractorsPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction330
- North Vernon IndustryIron foundries269
- Martinrea Industries, North Vernon DivisionOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Hilex Poly A NOVOLEX Company - North Vernon BagGrocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing208
- GT IndustriesJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing184
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,077 people in all across the county; Butlerville 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Butlerville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Jennings County and the North Vernon, IN metro.
Butlerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Butlerville$216,733
- 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.
- Butlerville5
Zip codes with a Butlerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Butlerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.