Hamlet, Indiana.
Typical home $208,575 (+2.7% in a year). Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$661 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,410 +3%
- $203,165$208,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,645 +35%
- $154,929$208,575 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.
- Hamlet$1,095
- 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 Hamlet, IN rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamlet, Starke County, Indiana
Hamlet is a town of 773 people in Starke County. Half its households earn more than $73,542 a year and half less, against $63,960 across Starke County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Starke County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Starke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamlet is a small town in Starke County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, though some residents still live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest weather in January and warm summers peaking in July.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Starke County, some of the largest workplaces are Knox Community School, Starke Memorial Hospital and Norton Packaging in Hamlet. Few people work from home, so most travel to a job, with a commute somewhat longer than many people expect from a small town, and the county has lost a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Tippecanoe River State Park and Potato Creek State Park are protected areas, both a longer drive away, and Yellow River is a river that is also a longer drive away. Football fans can make the longer drive to Notre Dame Stadium, one of the best known stadiums in the country.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Starke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Starke County had 4,102 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Knox Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Starke County
- Knox Community School CorpSchool district210FTE
- North Judson-San Pierre Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district157FTE
- Bailey's Discount CenterRetail store105
- Norton Packaging- HamletDrums, plastics, manufacturing105
- Oregon-Davis School CorpSchool district105FTE
- Starke Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital92FTE
- Bryan SteamPower boilers manufacturing77
- BrickyardNursing care facility62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 573 people in all across the county; Hamlet has none 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamlet’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 Starke County and the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
Hamlet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamlet$208,575
- 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.
- Hamlet5
Zip codes with a Hamlet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamlet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.