Chrisney, Indiana.
Typical home $230,845 (+6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$718 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,720 +7%
- $216,126$230,845 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,726 +36%
- $170,119$230,845 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.
- Chrisney$1,212
- 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 Chrisney, IN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chrisney, Spencer County, Indiana
Chrisney is a town of 465 people in Spencer County. Unemployment in Spencer County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chrisney is a very small town in Spencer County, in southern Indiana, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing in January and some snow through the season, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal across the year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued above what the county's household incomes might suggest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, retail shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades, and a small share work from home. Across Spencer County, some of the largest workplaces are Cleveland Cliffs, which makes steel bars, the North Spencer County school district, and Spencer Industries, which makes awnings and fiberglass products. Unemployment in the county has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Lincoln State Park. Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, an amusement park, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Angel Mounds is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 187households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spencer County had 6,874 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonville 1S weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Spencer County
- Cleveland CliffsBars, steel, made in cold rolling mills made from purchased steel511
- North Spencer County Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district282FTE
- Spencer Industries Incorporated - Dale LocationAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing209
- American Electric Power158
- Automated Routing, Inc. MainPanels, softwood plywood, manufacturing113
- Time Dedicated Carriers96
- Parker- MeggittAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing94
- South Spencer County Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district93FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,639 people in all across the county; Chrisney 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chrisney’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 Spencer County.
Chrisney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chrisney$230,845
- 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.
- Chrisney8
Zip codes with a Chrisney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chrisney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.