Corydon, Indiana.
Typical home $272,500 (+3.2% in a year). Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$784 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,442 +3%
- $264,058$272,500 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,041 +29%
- $210,458$272,500 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.
- Corydon$1,430
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Corydon, IN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana
Corydon is a town of 3,153 people in Harrison County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corydon is a small town in southern Indiana, the seat of Harrison County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm and July is the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in town include South Harrison Com Schools, Blue River Services and Kroger. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Indiana Caverns, a park, and the Corydon Battle Site, a protected area, are both in or beside town. Wyandotte Caves, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away. Louisville Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 1,359households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 10,113 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brandenburg weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Corydon
- South Harrison Com SchoolsSchool district470FTE
- Blue River ServicesCentralized administrative offices300
- Innh EMPNursing care facilities139
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores107
- Innh EMPNursing care facilities82
- CorydonMail and parcel delivery32
- Tractor Supply Company StoreGeneral merchandise stores24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 684 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Corydon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Harrison County and the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
Corydon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corydon$272,500
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Corydon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Corydon31.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Corydon49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Corydon17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Corydon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corydon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Corydon
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47112 | Corydon | 17,464 | — | $272,862 |
| 47137 | Leavenworth | 1,532 | — | $173,730 |