Darmstadt, Indiana.
Typical home $349,825 (+4.4% in a year). Evansville, IN-KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,050 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,637 +4%
- $335,188$349,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,683 +32%
- $264,142$349,825 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.
- Darmstadt$1,836
- 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 Darmstadt, IN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Darmstadt, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Darmstadt is a town of 1,373 people in Vanderburgh County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Vanderburgh County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Darmstadt is a small town on the Evansville side of Vanderburgh County, with a population that skews older than the county as a whole. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, very few households live below the poverty line, and more adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns this size. Winters are cold, with some snow, summers run hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services close behind. Across Vanderburgh County, the largest workplaces include the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, Ascension St. Vincent Evansville and the University of Southern Indiana. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive takes you to Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden, and to USS LST-325, a museum. The Reitz Home Museum, also a short drive away, is a historic house museum. A longer drive brings you to Angel Mounds, an archaeological site.
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- 680households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vanderburgh County had 107,429 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 11 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evansville Regional Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vanderburgh County
- Evansville Vanderburgh School CorpSchool district3,137FTE
- NBC MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,771
- Ascension St. Vincent EvansvilleGeneral hospital1,385FTE
- Berry Global- Evansville, IN HQCorporate offices1,285
- University of Southern IndianaUniversity or college1,223
- Healthcare Resource SolutionsBilling services974
- Ameriqual FoodsGravy canning838
- Evansville BakeryBread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries650
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 247 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,531 people in all across the county; Darmstadt has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Darmstadt’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 Vanderburgh County and the Evansville, IN-KY metro.
Darmstadt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Darmstadt$349,825
- 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 Darmstadt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Darmstadt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.