Larwill, Indiana.
Typical home $318,427 (+6.0% in a year). Fort Wayne, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,017 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,069 +6%
- $300,358$318,427 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,049 +38%
- $231,378$318,427 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.
- Larwill$1,671
- 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 Larwill, IN rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Larwill, Whitley County, Indiana
Larwill is a town of 273 people in Whitley County. Half its households earn more than $56,528 a year and half less, against $78,083 across Whitley County. Unemployment in Whitley County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Whitley 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Larwill is a very small town in Whitley County, Indiana, where people mostly know one another. Household incomes in the town run below the county's, while the typical home is worth a good deal, so the town's homes are not cheap for the incomes of those who live in them. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Few work from home. Across Whitley County, the largest workplaces include Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and Rail, Undersea Sensor Systems and C&A Tool Engineering. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Big Barbee Lake is a lake a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby waters. Chain O'Lakes State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and has lakes and woodland to explore. Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is also a longer drive away and suits a day out with grandchildren.
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What people in Whitley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whitley County had 14,183 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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 82° and lows near 62°. About 21 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbia City weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whitley County
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and RailSteel manufacturing949
- Undersea Sensor SystemsSonar systems and equipment manufacturing618
- C&A Tool EngineeringMachine shops574
- Lear Corporation - Columbia CityAutomotive supplier520
- MicropulseInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing508
- Whitley County Con SchoolsSchool district449FTE
- Whitley Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital289FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,001 people in all across the county; Larwill has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Larwill’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 Whitley County and the Fort Wayne, IN metro.
Larwill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Larwill$318,427
- 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 Larwill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Larwill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.