Scipio, Indiana.
Typical home $256,558 (+5.8% in a year). North Vernon, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$837 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,984 +6%
- $242,574$256,558 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,261 +42%
- $180,298$256,558 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.
- Scipio$1,347
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Scipio, IN rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scipio, Jennings County, Indiana
Scipio, in Jennings County, had 197 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jennings County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jennings 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scipio is a very small community in Jennings County, Indiana, with a population that most towns would count as a handful of neighbors. Homes here are valued above what the county's incomes might suggest, since the county's households earn a middling amount and the typical home sells for a good deal more than a modest starter house. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Some snow falls each winter, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents of Scipio work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Jennings County, some of the largest workplaces are the Jennings County School district, a Lowe's distribution warehouse, and Martinrea Industries' North Vernon Division, which makes automotive oil filters. Unemployment in the county has stayed low, though there were somewhat fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Selmier State Forest and Muscatatuck County Park are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife. For something indoors, Miller House and Garden is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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What people in Jennings County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jennings County had 7,914 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Vernon Ese weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jennings County
- Jennings County School CorporationSchool district628FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse556
- Dave O'Mara ContractorsPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction330
- North Vernon IndustryIron foundries269
- Martinrea Industries, North Vernon DivisionOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Hilex Poly A NOVOLEX Company - North Vernon BagGrocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing208
- GT IndustriesJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing184
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,077 people in all across the county; Scipio 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Scipio’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 Jennings County and the North Vernon, IN metro.
Scipio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scipio$256,558
- 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 Scipio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scipio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.