Laotto, Indiana.
Typical home $373,206 (+7.4% in a year). Kendallville, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,155 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,664 +7%
- $347,541$373,206 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,695 +38%
- $270,510$373,206 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.
- Laotto$1,959
- 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 Laotto, IN rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laotto, Noble County, Indiana
Laotto is in Noble County. Half its households earn more than $121,657 a year and half less, against $71,723 across Noble County. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laotto is a community in Noble County in the northeast corner of Indiana, in the Midwest. Household incomes here are higher than across Noble County as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm and fairly wet, so the seasons are clearly marked.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and care services, in shops, and in the building trades. Jobs in the county have eased slightly over the past year, while unemployment has come down from a year earlier.
Things to do. Chain O'Lakes State Park, a protected area a short drive away, is a good place to spend time outdoors. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, also a short drive away, is a museum that shows classic automobiles. The Eel River, a short drive away, offers a quiet spot by the water.
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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 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Garrett weather station, 5 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; Laotto 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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Noble County, 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 Noble County and the Kendallville, IN metro.
Laotto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laotto$373,206
- 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 Laotto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laotto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.