Huntertown, Indiana.
Typical home $352,084 (+3.4% in a year). Fort Wayne, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$996 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,521 +3%
- $340,563$352,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,257 +24%
- $283,826$352,084 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.
- Huntertown$1,848
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Huntertown, IN rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huntertown, Allen County, Indiana
Huntertown is a town of 9,141 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $109,432 a year and half less, against $70,737 across Allen County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huntertown is a small town in Allen County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than is typical across the country. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Huntertown are Riverside Mfg, which makes harness assemblies for electronics, Builders FirstSource, and O'Neal Excavating and Construction. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home, while the rest make a fairly short commute.
Things to do. The Eel River runs in or beside town, and the St. Joseph River is a short drive away. Also a short drive off are the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. For a longer outing, Chain O'Lakes State Park lies a longer drive away.
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- 3,734households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 199,464 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Garrett South weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huntertown
- Riverside MfgHarness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing133
- Board of Commissioners of the County of AllenExecutive offices37
- Builders FirstSourceOther building material dealers31
- O'neal Excavating and ConstructionExcavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining28
- Board of Commissioners of the County of AllenAdministration of air and water resource and solid waste management programs20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 249 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Huntertown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Allen County and the Fort Wayne, IN metro.
Huntertown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huntertown$352,084
- 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 Huntertown 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.
- Huntertown29.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huntertown52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huntertown17
Zip codes with a Huntertown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huntertown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.