Monroeville, Indiana.
Typical home $257,565 (+6.8% in a year). Fort Wayne, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$798 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,372 +7%
- $241,193$257,565 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,620 +43%
- $179,945$257,565 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.
- Monroeville$1,352
- 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 Monroeville, IN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monroeville, Allen County, Indiana
Monroeville is a town of 1,294 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $56,302 a year and half less, against $70,737 across Allen County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monroeville is a small town in Allen County, Indiana, with a small-town population by any measure. Household incomes here run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. A typical home costs a fair amount, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Allen County, some of the largest workplaces are Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne Community Schools and General Motors. Commutes are of moderate length, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A longer drive away, Fort Wayne has the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is also a longer drive away and is a good stop for anyone fond of classic cars. For time outdoors, the St. Joseph River is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 506households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 199,464 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur North weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- Parkview HospitalGeneral hospital6,147FTE
- Shambaugh & SonHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors4,223
- Fort Wayne Community SchoolsSchool district4,132FTE
- General MotorsAssembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture4,075
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,574
- Sweetwater Sound Fort WayneMusic stores2,304
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,225
- Lutheran Hospital of IndianaGeneral hospital1,595FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 433 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76,493 people in all across the county; Monroeville has two 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monroeville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Allen County and the Fort Wayne, IN metro.
Monroeville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monroeville$257,565
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Monroeville7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Monroeville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monroeville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.