Hebron, Indiana.
Typical home $328,284 (+3.2% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$962 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,190 +3%
- $318,094$328,284 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,604 +29%
- $254,679$328,284 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.
- Hebron$1,723
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hebron, IN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hebron, Porter County, Indiana
Hebron is a town of 3,755 people in Porter County. Half its households earn more than $73,812 a year and half less, against $87,972 across Porter County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Porter County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hebron is a small town in Porter County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population skews older than much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places. Winters are cold and summers warm, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Porter County, some of the largest workplaces are Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor, Porter Regional Hospital and United States Steel. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Taltree Arboretum and Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is the Collier Lodge Site, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, Indiana Dunes National Park is a longer drive away, and so is the Yellow River for those who like time near water.
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- 1,663households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Porter County had 63,898 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more 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 84° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheatfield weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Porter County
- Cleveland-Cliffs Burns HarborSteel manufacturing4,003
- Porter Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,162FTE
- United States SteelSteel mills906
- Portage Township SchoolsSchool district856FTE
- Solid PlatformsScaffold erecting and dismantling811
- Valparaiso Community SchoolsSchool district771FTE
- Valparaiso UniversityUniversity or college754
- Duneland School CorporationSchool district638FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,440 people in all across the county; Hebron has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hebron’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 Porter County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Hebron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hebron$328,284
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hebron 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.
- Hebron35.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hebron22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hebron7
Zip codes with a Hebron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hebron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.