Monroe City, Indiana.
Typical home $205,104 (+6.6% in a year). Vincennes, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,774 +7%
- $192,330$205,104 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,275 +44%
- $142,829$205,104 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.
- Monroe City$1,077
- 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 Monroe City, IN rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monroe City, Knox County, Indiana
Monroe City is a town of 502 people in Knox County. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monroe City is a very small Indiana town, with a young population for the area and fewer four-year degrees among adults than is typical. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Knox County are modest. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, summers turn hot in July, and there is a little snow most years along with plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants. Across Knox County, some of the biggest workplaces are Vincennes University, Good Samaritan Hospital and Farbest Foods Vincennes. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and few people here work from home.
Things to do. Pyramid Mound, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, a museum and memorial in the old river town of Vincennes, and to Pike State Forest, a protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 16,811 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington West weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Vincennes UniversityUniversity or college1,494
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,369FTE
- Farbest Foods VincennesPoultry processing450
- Vincennes Community School CorpSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters315
- Vincennes BakeryBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries180
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation177
- North Knox School CorpSchool district169FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,176 people in all across the county; Monroe City has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monroe City’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 Knox County and the Vincennes, IN metro.
Monroe City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monroe City$205,104
- 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 Monroe City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monroe City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.