Celestine, Indiana.
Typical home $306,800 (+7.2% in a year). Jasper, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$903 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,638 +7%
- $286,162$306,800 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,649 +36%
- $226,151$306,800 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.
- Celestine$1,610
- 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 Celestine, IN rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Celestine, Dubois County, Indiana
Celestine is in Dubois County. Unemployment in Dubois County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dubois County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Celestine is a small community in Dubois County, in the hilly southern part of Indiana. Residents know one another, and life centers on the surrounding county roads and nearby towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest, so the seasons are clearly marked here.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, which has long been part of the region's economy. Others work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Jobs in the county have been fairly steady in recent years, with little change from one year to the next.
Things to do. Patoka Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is a popular place for water and shoreline time. Hoosier National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, offers wooded trails and quiet walks. Wyandotte Caves, a tourist attraction a longer drive away, is a well-known cave to visit.
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What people in Dubois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dubois County had 27,902 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Patoka Lake weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dubois County
- Masterbrand CabinetsWood kitchen cabinets and countertop manufacturing1,711
- Memorial Hosp & Health Care CTRGeneral hospital930FTE
- Farbest Foods HuntingburgPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing730
- Kimball ElectronicsPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing526
- Meyer DistributingMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers445
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters427
- Greater Jasper Consolidated Schs SchoolsSchool district390FTE
- Masterbrand - Jasper OpsBathroom vanities, stock or custom wood, manufacturing386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 77 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,901 people in all across the county; Celestine has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dubois County, 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 Dubois County and the Jasper, IN metro.
Celestine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Celestine$306,800
- 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 Celestine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Celestine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Celestine
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47521 | Celestine | 905 | — | $303,861 |
| 47580 | Schnellville | 140 | — | $272,454 |