Kirklin, Indiana.
Typical home $265,160 (+6.8% in a year). Frankfort, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$828 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,886 +7%
- $248,274$265,160 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,850 +38%
- $192,310$265,160 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.
- Kirklin$1,392
- 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 Kirklin, IN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kirklin, Clinton County, Indiana
Kirklin is a town of 710 people in Clinton County. Unemployment in Clinton County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kirklin is a very small town in Clinton County, Indiana, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Homes here are priced in the middle range for the area, and household incomes across the county are modest. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and a fair amount of snow each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Clinton County, some of the largest workplaces are Frito Lay, NHK Seating of America and Donaldson Company. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Old Indiana Fun Park, an amusement park a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Indianapolis, where the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is one of the best known race tracks anywhere. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is also a longer drive away, and it is a museum that suits visits with grandchildren. Eagle Creek Park, a large green space, is another longer drive from town.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 11,541 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frankfort Disposal weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing929
- NHK Seating of AmericaMotor vehicle seats manufacturing847
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing594
- Donaldson CompanyAir filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing460
- Community Schools of FrankfortSchool district376FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters304
- Ryder SystemGeneral warehousing and storage254
- Tenneco FrankfortCoaxial mechanical face seals manufacturing200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,181 people in all across the county; Kirklin 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kirklin’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 Clinton County and the Frankfort, IN metro.
Kirklin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kirklin$265,160
- 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 Kirklin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kirklin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.