Mentone, Indiana.
Typical home $212,891 (+7.8% in a year). Warsaw, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$645 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,401 +8%
- $197,490$212,891 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,553 +36%
- $156,338$212,891 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.
- Mentone$1,117
- 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 Mentone, IN rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mentone, Kosciusko County, Indiana
Mentone is a town of 943 people in Kosciusko County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Kosciusko County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mentone is a very small town in Kosciusko County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall throughout the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across Kosciusko County, the largest workplaces include Poly-Wood LLC - Indiana, Warsaw Community Schools and Johnson Johnson. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the usual commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Potawatomi Wildlife Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lake Manitou and Lake Maxinkuckee are both lakes a longer drive away, and the Salamonie River is a river within a longer drive as well.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kosciusko County had 35,757 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warsaw weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kosciusko County
- THE Otis R. Bowen CenterPsychiatric hospital1,145FTE
- Poly-Wood LLC - IndianaPolyethylene resins manufacturing1,079
- Warsaw Community SchoolsSchool district891FTE
- Forte ResidentialCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities888
- Johnson JohnsonSurgical appliance and supplies mfg.848
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters383
- Wawasee Community School CorpSchool district382FTE
- Kosciusko Community HospitalGeneral hospital376FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,167 people in all across the county; Mentone has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mentone’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 Kosciusko County and the Warsaw, IN metro.
Mentone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mentone$212,891
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mentone9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mentone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mentone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.