French Lick, Indiana.
Typical home $193,826 (+5.0% in a year). Jasper, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$621 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,162 +5%
- $184,665$193,826 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,810 +41%
- $137,016$193,826 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.
- French Lick$1,017
- 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 French Lick, IN rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in French Lick, Orange County, Indiana
French Lick is a town of 1,722 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $54,519 a year and half less, against $65,873 across Orange County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. French Lick is a small Indiana town in Orange County, with a population that is quite small and a median age on the older side. Incomes in town run below the county's, and more households are renters than owner-occupants in many places, though most homes here are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops also employing a good number of people. Across Orange County, the largest workplaces include French Lick Resort, Jasper Seating Company Plant 15 and Paoli Community School. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. The Indiana Railway Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away are Hoosier National Forest, a protected area, and Patoka Lake, a reservoir. Spring Mill State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 869households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 7,386 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 13 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paoli weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- French Lick ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities1,348
- Jasper Seating Company Plant 15Desks, wood office-type, manufacturing429
- Reynolds ConstructionConstruction management, water and sewage treatment plant385
- PlutoFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing331
- Paoli Community School CorpSchool district218FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters184
- Southern Indiana Community Health CareFamily physicians' offices136
- IU Health Paoli HospitalCritical access hospital134FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,369 people in all across the county; French Lick has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in French Lick’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 Orange County and the Jasper, IN metro.
French Lick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- French Lick$193,826
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 French Lick listings — 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.
- French Lick25.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- French Lick39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- French Lick7
Zip codes with a French Lick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls French Lick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.