Morocco, Indiana.
Typical home $189,410 (+3.2% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,845 +3%
- $183,565$189,410 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,720 +33%
- $142,690$189,410 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.
- Morocco$994
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Morocco, IN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morocco, Newton County, Indiana
Morocco is a town of 1,081 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $61,767 a year and half less, against $75,481 across Newton County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morocco is a small town in Newton County, Indiana, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Newton County, some of the largest workplaces are Adkev, which makes vehicle moldings and extrusions, North Newton School and South Newton School. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, J C Murphey Lake, a reservoir, and Beaver Lake are both a short drive away. The Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area, a protected area, is also a short drive from town. The Iroquois River is a longer drive, for those who want to go further afield.
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- 439households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 3,240 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kentland weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- AdkevMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing180
- North Newton School CorpSchool district163FTE
- South Newton School CorpSchool district142FTE
- Rose Acre FarmsChicken egg production94
- Aperion Care DemotteSkilled nursing facilities90
- Premium WatersSpring waters, purifying and bottling63
- In-npdi-indianaAgriculture44
- Running SupplyDistribution center41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 608 people in all across the county; Morocco has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- 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 Morocco’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 Newton County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Morocco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morocco$189,410
- 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.
- Morocco10
Zip codes with a Morocco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morocco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.