Forest, Indiana.
Typical home $204,534 (+6.5% in a year). Frankfort, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,544 +7%
- $191,991$204,534 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,285 +39%
- $147,249$204,534 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.
- Forest$1,074
- 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 Forest, IN rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forest, Clinton County, Indiana
Forest is in Clinton County. Unemployment in Clinton County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clinton County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forest is a community in Clinton County, Indiana, where neighbors tend to know one another. The town has winters that are colder than most of the country, with a good deal of snow, and summers that are warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the seasons are easy to feel.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, and a large share are employed in schools, hospitals and social care. Shops and retail businesses, along with professional and business services, also provide work for local people.
Things to do. The Tippecanoe River is a river a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known waterways nearby. Prophetstown State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers open land to explore. The Elwood Haynes Museum, another place a longer drive away, is a museum worth a visit.
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What people in Clinton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 11,541 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kokomo Wsw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing929
- NHK Seating of AmericaMotor vehicle seats manufacturing847
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing594
- Donaldson CompanyAir filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing460
- Community Schools of FrankfortSchool district376FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters304
- Ryder SystemGeneral warehousing and storage254
- Tenneco FrankfortCoaxial mechanical face seals manufacturing200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,181 people in all across the county; Forest has none of its own. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clinton 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 Clinton County and the Frankfort, IN metro.
Forest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forest$204,534
- 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 Forest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.