Hope, Indiana.
Typical home $251,071 (+3.1% in a year). Columbus, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$785 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,632 +3%
- $243,439$251,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,347 +42%
- $176,724$251,071 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.
- Hope$1,318
- 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 Hope, IN rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hope, Bartholomew County, Indiana
Hope is a town of 2,099 people in Bartholomew County. Half its households earn more than $76,188 a year and half less, against $79,901 across Bartholomew County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Bartholomew County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hope is a small Indiana town in Bartholomew County, with a younger population than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Bartholomew County, some of the largest workplaces are Toyota Material Handling, Columbus Regional Hospital and the Bartholomew Con School district. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Miller House and Garden, a museum, and the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum are both a short drive away. For time outdoors, Brown County State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive. The Big Blue River is also within reach by car for a day by the water.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bartholomew County had 49,493 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bartholomew County
- Toyota Material HandlingIndustrial trucks and tractors manufacturing2,015
- NTN DriveshaftTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,655
- Bartholomew Con School CorpSchool district1,629FTE
- Columbus Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,369FTE
- Cummins Technical CenterEngineering services1,126
- Cummins CMEPDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing1,000
- Dorel Juvenile GroupCar seats, infant, manufacturing513
- Austin Trihawk AutomotiveJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing432
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,681 people in all across the county; Hope 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hope’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 Bartholomew County and the Columbus, IN metro.
Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hope$251,071
- 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.
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.
- Hope12
Zip codes with a Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.