Cutler, Indiana.
Typical home $307,833 (+9.4% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$990 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,356 +9%
- $281,477$307,833 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,908 +47%
- $209,925$307,833 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.
- Cutler$1,616
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Cutler, IN rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cutler, Carroll County, Indiana
Cutler is in Carroll County. Half its households earn more than $18,322 a year and half less, against $65,645 across Carroll County. 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 people in Carroll County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cutler is a small community in Carroll County, Indiana, where household incomes sit well below the county's as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with more snow than many parts of the country see, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the seasons are easy to feel.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, and in local shops. Across the county, the number of jobs has grown slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The Tippecanoe River is a river a longer drive away, good for a day outdoors. Prophetstown State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area of open land. Fort Ouiatenon, a historic fort site, and the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, a museum, are both a longer drive away.
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What people in Carroll County 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 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 25 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Young America weather station, 11 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; Cutler 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Carroll County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Carroll County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Cutler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cutler$307,833
- 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 Cutler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cutler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.