Dubois, Indiana.
Typical home $253,929 (+5.0% in a year). Jasper, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$767 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,118 +5%
- $241,811$253,929 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,046 +36%
- $186,884$253,929 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.
- Dubois$1,333
- 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 Dubois, IN rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dubois, Dubois County, Indiana
Dubois, in Dubois County, had 478 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $80,988 a year and half less, against $75,979 across Dubois County. Unemployment in Dubois County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dubois County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dubois is a very small community in southern Indiana, home to far fewer people than most towns that appear on maps. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and homes sit at a middling price for the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while July brings hot summer afternoons.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Dubois County, some of the largest workplaces are Masterbrand Cabinets, which makes wood kitchen cabinets, Memorial Hospital & Health Care Center, and Farbest Foods in Huntingburg, a poultry processor. Unemployment in the county is low and about where it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has slipped very slightly.
Things to do. Patoka Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as are the rivers Cane Creek and Lost River. A longer drive brings you to Hoosier National Forest, a large protected area of woods and trails, and to Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, an amusement park.
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What people in Dubois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dubois County had 27,902 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Patoka Lake weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dubois County
- Masterbrand CabinetsWood kitchen cabinets and countertop manufacturing1,711
- Memorial Hosp & Health Care CTRGeneral hospital930FTE
- Farbest Foods HuntingburgPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing730
- Kimball ElectronicsPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing526
- Meyer DistributingMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers445
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters427
- Greater Jasper Consolidated Schs SchoolsSchool district390FTE
- Masterbrand - Jasper OpsBathroom vanities, stock or custom wood, manufacturing386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 77 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,901 people in all across the county; Dubois has one 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Dubois’ 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 Dubois County and the Jasper, IN metro.
Dubois home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dubois$253,929
- 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.
- Dubois8
Zip codes with a Dubois address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dubois — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.