Fairbanks, Indiana.
Typical home $201,459 (+6.3% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$620 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,999 +6%
- $189,461$201,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,403 +40%
- $144,057$201,459 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.
- Fairbanks$1,057
- 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 Fairbanks, IN rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, Indiana
Fairbanks is in Sullivan County. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairbanks is a community in Sullivan County, Indiana, where residents are younger on the whole than most of the country. Homes tend to cost less than in much of the nation, and household incomes sit below the national level. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Joblessness has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs dipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Busseron Creek is a river a short drive away, a easy place to spend a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Shakamak State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a museum also a longer drive away.
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- 32.7median age
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 5,632 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmersburg Tv-2 weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Sullivan County Community HospitalCritical access hospital374FTE
- Southwest School CorporationSchool district241FTE
- Raybestos PowertrainPersonal goods, metal, manufacturing159
- Consolidated Asset Management Services, (Indiana)Electric power generation, fossil fuel140
- WalmartDiscount department stores110
- Dugger Union Community School CorpSchool district94FTE
- Waters of SllivanSkilled nursing facilities68
- Northeast School CorpSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 677 people in all across the county; Fairbanks has none 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sullivan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Sullivan County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Fairbanks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairbanks$201,459
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fairbanks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairbanks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.