Kimmell, Indiana.
Typical home $250,217 (+4.1% in a year). Kendallville, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,802 +4%
- $240,415$250,217 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,978 +37%
- $182,239$250,217 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.
- Kimmell$1,313
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Kimmell, IN rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kimmell, Noble County, Indiana
Kimmell, in Noble County, had 433 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Noble County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Noble 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kimmell is a very small community in Noble County, Indiana, where everyone is likely to know their neighbors. Homes here are valued below what a typical home costs across much of the country, and household incomes across Noble County run a little below the national picture. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, which fits a place where much of the work is practical and hands-on.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Noble County, some of the largest workplaces are Dexter Axle Company, which makes brake parts for trucks and buses, Hendrickson Truck Commercial Vehicle Systems, and the East Noble School district. Unemployment in the county is low and has changed very little over the past year, while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Chain O'Lakes State Park, a protected area, and Knapp Lake are both a short drive away, as is Lake Wawasee, one of the larger lakes in the region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, so the lakes and trails suit the warmer months best.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Noble County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Noble County had 16,757 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 47 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northern Indiana Weather Office weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Noble County
- Dexter Axle CompanyBrake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing650
- Creative Liquid CoatingsInjection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing525
- East Noble School CorporationSchool district489FTE
- West Noble School CorporationSchool district325FTE
- Hendrickson Truck Commercial Vehicle SystemsAutomotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts manufacturing319
- Kautex AvillaGas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing312
- CarlexSafety glass made from purchased glass288
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,491 people in all across the county; Kimmell has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Kimmell’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 Noble County and the Kendallville, IN metro.
Kimmell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kimmell$250,217
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kimmell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kimmell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.