Gaston, Indiana.
Typical home $204,968 (+5.6% in a year). Muncie, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$618 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,840 +6%
- $194,128$204,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,299 +35%
- $151,669$204,968 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.
- Gaston$1,076
- 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 Gaston, IN rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gaston, Delaware County, Indiana
Gaston is a town of 796 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $52,292 a year and half less, against $58,127 across Delaware County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Delaware County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gaston is a very small town in Delaware County, Indiana, with a population smaller than most towns people have heard of. Household incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow are spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Delaware County, the largest workplaces include Ball State University, Ball Memorial Hospital and Progress Rail. The typical commute is a moderate one, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job. Jobs across the county have dipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Minnetrista, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University. For a longer outing, Mounds State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. Emens Auditorium, a theatre, is also a short drive away.
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- 295households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Delaware County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 44,333 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Muncie Delaware County Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware County
- Ball State UniversityUniversity or college3,300
- Liberty-Perry Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district2,409FTE
- Ball Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,772FTE
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing947
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing609
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical501
- Muncie Community SchoolsSchool district488FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters397
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,821 people in all across the county; Gaston has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gaston’s census tracts, 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 Delaware County and the Muncie, IN metro.
Gaston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gaston$204,968
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gaston5
Zip codes with a Gaston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gaston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.