Linton, Indiana.
Typical home $172,426 (+5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$529 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,704 +5%
- $163,722$172,426 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,129 +35%
- $127,297$172,426 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.
- Linton$905
- 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 Linton, IN rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linton, Greene County, Indiana
Linton is a city of 5,133 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $45,440 a year and half less, against $62,094 across Greene County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linton is a small city in Greene County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. The population is somewhat younger than in many small Midwestern towns, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing also employing many people. Across Greene County, the largest workplaces include Greene County General Hospital, Walmart and the Bloomfield School District. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has changed very little over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. The closest outdoor option is Greene–Sullivan State Forest, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Shakamak State Park, another protected area, and to the Eel River. Winters here are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 2,308households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 6,457 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shakamak Sp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Greene County General HospitalCritical access hospital332FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- Bloomfield School DistrictSchool district135FTE
- White River Valley School DistrictSchool district122FTE
- MSD Shakamak SchoolsSchool district112FTE
- Eastern Greene SchoolsSchool district96FTE
- Linton-Stockton School CorporationSchool district89FTE
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Worthington - US - ProductionSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,124 people in all across the county; Linton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linton’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 Greene County.
Linton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linton$172,426
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Linton listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Linton20.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linton36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Linton6
Zip codes with a Linton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.