Deputy, Indiana.
Typical home $225,219 (+6.4% in a year). Madison, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,631 +6%
- $211,588$225,219 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,496 +43%
- $157,723$225,219 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.
- Deputy$1,182
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Deputy, IN rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deputy, Jefferson County, Indiana
Deputy, in Jefferson County, had 86 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deputy is a small community in Jefferson County, in southeastern Indiana, and most of its residents know one another. Its homes sit among open land and farms, and the county seat and larger towns are a drive away. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with the coldest weather in January and the heat of July the most noticeable.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the town's working life centers on these sectors, which are common across the county.
Things to do. Hardy Lake is a lake a short drive away, a easy trip for an afternoon by the water. Clifty Falls State Park, a waterfall in a state park a longer drive off, offers a fuller day outdoors. The Kentucky River, also a longer drive away, is a wide river for a quiet outing.
Report a mistake
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 12,834 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsburg weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Arvin SangoExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing844
- Kings Daughters HospitalGeneral hospital720FTE
- Vehicle Service GroupAutomobile lifts manufacturing520
- Grote IndustriesAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing503
- Madison Consolidated SchoolsSchool district388FTE
- Hanover CollegeUniversity or college364
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
- Madison State HospitalPsychiatric hospital312FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,987 people in all across the county; Deputy has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Deputy’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 Jefferson County and the Madison, IN metro.
Deputy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deputy$225,219
- 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.
- Deputy9
Zip codes with a Deputy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deputy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.