Dyer, Indiana.
Typical home $360,124 (+1.8% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,318 +2%
- $353,807$360,124 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,407 +17%
- $308,718$360,124 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.
- Dyer$1,890
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Dyer, IN rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dyer, Lake County, Indiana
Dyer is a town of 16,517 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $107,159 a year and half less, against $71,493 across Lake County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dyer is a town in Lake County, Indiana, where the typical resident is older than in most of the country and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Within the town, the largest workplaces include Franciscan Health- Dyer, a general hospital, along with Jewel Food Stores, a grocery chain, and Ignite Medical Resort Dyer, a skilled nursing facility. Commutes are fairly long, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Chicago's big museums and parks are a longer drive away, and they are the main draw for a day out. The Art Institute of Chicago is among the best known art museums, the Field Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum, and Millennium Park is a garden in the heart of the city. Sports fans can head to Soldier Field, a stadium, also a longer drive away.
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- 6,416households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 191,579 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Park Forest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dyer
- Franciscan Health- DyerGeneral hospital837FTE
- Ignite Medical Resort DyerSkilled nursing facility205
- Jewel Food StoresSupermarkets and other grocery stores191
- Dyer HCSkilled nursing facilities170
- Innh EMPNursing care facilities116
- Quote Delivery ServicesDelivery service90
- Cedarhurst Living, LLC - DyerAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities72
- Dyer Construction CompanyRoad construction53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,885 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dyer’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 Lake County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Dyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dyer$360,124
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dyer listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Dyer35.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dyer76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dyer28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dyer$339,770
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dyer98.45%
Zip codes with a Dyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.