Decker, Indiana.
Typical home $150,258 (+7.8% in a year). Vincennes, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,880 +8%
- $139,378$150,258 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,177 +36%
- $110,080$150,258 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.
- Decker$789
- 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 Decker, IN rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Decker, Knox County, Indiana
Decker is a town of 199 people in Knox County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Decker is a very small town in Knox County, Indiana, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Typical home values are modest, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn quite warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Vincennes University, Good Samaritan Hospital and Farbest Foods Vincennes. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive. Knox County has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there has eased a little.
Things to do. The Embarras River is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, a museum on the early history of the region, and to Pike State Forest, a protected area of woodland. The Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge and Management Area is also a longer drive away.
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- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 16,811 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Princeton West weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Vincennes UniversityUniversity or college1,494
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,369FTE
- Farbest Foods VincennesPoultry processing450
- Vincennes Community School CorpSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters315
- Vincennes BakeryBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries180
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation177
- North Knox School CorpSchool district169FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,176 people in all across the county; Decker has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Decker’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 Knox County and the Vincennes, IN metro.
Decker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Decker$150,258
- 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 Decker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Decker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Decker
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47640 | Hazleton | 938 | — | $184,213 |
| 47524 | Decker | 302 | — | $137,850 |