Dillsboro, Indiana.
Typical home $289,370 (+5.4% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$886 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,783 +5%
- $274,587$289,370 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,934 +35%
- $214,436$289,370 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.
- Dillsboro$1,519
- 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 Dillsboro, IN rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dillsboro, Dearborn County, Indiana
Dillsboro is a town of 1,360 people in Dearborn County. Half its households earn more than $48,810 a year and half less, against $84,735 across Dearborn County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dearborn County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dearborn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dillsboro is a small town in Dearborn County, Indiana, home to a modest number of residents. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are valued at a level that is not out of reach for the area. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work by car, with a fairly long trip being typical. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Dearborn County, the largest workplaces include Indiana Gaming Company, a riverboat casino, and St. Elizabeth Dearborn, a general hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Laughery Creek, a creek a short drive away, is the closest of the nearby places on the list. Farther afield, Versailles State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Perfect North Slopes, a ski area, is also a longer drive. For a day on the water, the Licking River is another longer drive away.
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- 702households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Dearborn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dearborn County had 14,998 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dearborn County
- Indiana Gaming CompanyRiverboat casino650
- St Elizabeth DearbornGeneral hospital424FTE
- Proximo Distillers IndianaLiquors, distilling and blending419
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters361
- Greendale CatalentGene therapy preparations manufacturing334
- Incompass HealthcarePsychiatric hospital290FTE
- South Dearborn Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district269FTE
- Lawrenceburg Community School CorpSchool district252FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,908 people in all across the county; Dillsboro has two of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dillsboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Dearborn County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Dillsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dillsboro$289,370
- 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.
- Dillsboro8
Zip codes with a Dillsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dillsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.