Merom, Indiana.
Typical home $146,572 (-0.6% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $861 -1%
- $147,432$146,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,100 +27%
- $115,472$146,572 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.
- Merom$769
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Merom, IN fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana
Merom is a town of 208 people in Sullivan County. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Merom is a very small town in Sullivan County, Indiana, with a population among the smallest of any town you would find on a map of the state. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the share of people living below the poverty line is low. Typical home values sit at a modest level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, and summers are warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. People in Merom work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Sullivan County, some of the biggest workplaces are Sullivan County Community Hospital, the Southwest School district and Raybestos Powertrain. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Riverton Site, an archaeological site, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Fort Lamotte, a fort, and the Crawford County State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area. For a longer drive, Shakamak State Park is a protected area, and George Rogers Clark National Historical Park is a museum.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 5,632 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palestine weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Sullivan County Community HospitalCritical access hospital374FTE
- Southwest School CorporationSchool district241FTE
- Raybestos PowertrainPersonal goods, metal, manufacturing159
- Consolidated Asset Management Services, (Indiana)Electric power generation, fossil fuel140
- WalmartDiscount department stores110
- Dugger Union Community School CorpSchool district94FTE
- Waters of SllivanSkilled nursing facilities68
- Northeast School CorpSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 677 people in all across the county; Merom 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Merom’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 Sullivan County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Merom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Merom$146,572
- 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 Merom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Merom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.