Edinburgh, Indiana.
Typical home $226,786 (+3.8% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$701 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,378 +4%
- $218,408$226,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,789 +35%
- $167,997$226,786 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.
- Edinburgh$1,190
- 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 Edinburgh, IN rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edinburgh, Shelby County, Indiana
Edinburgh is a town of 4,435 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $60,843 a year and half less, against $72,190 across Shelby County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shelby County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edinburgh is a small town in Shelby County, Indiana, with a population somewhat older than a typical American community. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Edinburgh are Amos-Hill Associates, a hardwood veneer and plywood maker, Danzer Veneer Americas, which runs hardwood veneer mills, and Edinburgh Community School. Few adults hold a four-year degree, the typical commute is of moderate length, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Big Blue River runs in or beside town, and Nineveh Creek is close by as well, so there is water within easy reach. A short drive away are Miller House and Garden, a museum, and the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum. A longer drive brings you to Brown County State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 2,012households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Shelby County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 18,930 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edinburgh
- Amos-Hill AssociatesHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing190
- Danzer Veneer AmericasVeneer mills, hardwood187
- Edinburgh Community School CorpSchool district121FTE
- Beacon IndustriesElectroplating metals and formed products for the trade80
- Sacoma Specialty ProductsExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing78
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores67
- MacBeath Hardwood Company - EdinburghLumber, kiln drying40
- R&R TechnologiesTrash containers, plastics, manufacturing36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 678 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edinburgh’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 Shelby County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Edinburgh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edinburgh$226,786
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Edinburgh12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edinburgh5
Zip codes with a Edinburgh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edinburgh — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.