Kouts, Indiana.
Typical home $314,532 (+3.6% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$897 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,892 +4%
- $303,640$314,532 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,625 +27%
- $246,907$314,532 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.
- Kouts$1,651
- 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 Kouts, IN rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kouts, Porter County, Indiana
Kouts is a town of 2,028 people in Porter County. Half its households earn more than $77,607 a year and half less, against $87,972 across Porter County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% 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 people in Porter County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kouts is a small town in Porter County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical age is on the younger side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Porter County, some of the largest workplaces are Porter Regional Hospital, Portage Township Schools and Valparaiso Community Schools. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Lake Kankakee is a short drive away for time on the water, and the Indiana Aviation Museum is a short drive away for anyone curious about flight. A longer drive brings you to Indiana Dunes National Park, one of the best known places in the region, with its lakeshore and trails.
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- 923households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Porter County 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, 9 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; Kouts has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kouts’ 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 Porter County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Kouts home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kouts$314,532
- 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.
- Kouts9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kouts5
Zip codes with a Kouts address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kouts — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.