Camden, Indiana.
Typical home $219,477 (+7.3% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$654 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,844 +7%
- $204,633$219,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,418 +32%
- $166,059$219,477 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.
- Camden$1,152
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Camden, IN rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Carroll County, Indiana
Camden is a town of 593 people in Carroll County. Half its households earn more than $53,000 a year and half less, against $65,645 across Carroll County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a very small Indiana town, home to far fewer people than most places you might compare it with. Incomes here run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are priced in the mid-range for a small Midwestern town. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground for part of the season, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops. Across Carroll County, some of the largest workplaces are Indiana Packers Corporation - Delphi, a pork processing plant, along with the Delphi Community School and Carroll Consolidated School districts. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. A typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Deer Creek is a river a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby outings. A longer drive brings you to the Tippecanoe River and to Prophetstown State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Indiana Beach, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 5,657 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 17 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delphi North weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Indiana Packers Corporation - DelphiPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants3,055
- Delphi Community School CorpSchool district225FTE
- Carroll Consolidated School CorpSchool district149FTE
- QSIJanitorial services96
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities92
- F&K ConstructionExcavation58
- The AndersonsCat litter manufacturing34
- TRULAND EquipmentPlanting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,452 people in all across the county; Camden 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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camden’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 Carroll County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$219,477
- 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.
- Camden5
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.