New Haven, Indiana.
Typical home $242,892 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $1,356 . Fort Wayne, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,645 +4%
- $234,247$242,892 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,019 +37%
- $177,873$242,892 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.
- New Haven$1,275
- 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 New Haven, IN rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Haven, Allen County, Indiana
New Haven is a city of 15,583 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $70,970 a year and half less, against $70,737 across Allen County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Haven is a small city in Allen County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes sit close to the county's, and the typical commute is a short one. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in New Haven are East Allen County Schools, Sanko Gosei Technologies USA, which makes plastic moldings and extrusions for motor vehicles, and Sauder Manufacturing, which builds institutional furniture. Unemployment across Allen County has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. The St. Joseph River and Fort Miami are both a short drive away, one for time by the water and the other for a look at local history. Families can head to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is a museum of classic cars a longer drive away.
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- 6,627households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 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 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodburn 3N weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New Haven
- East Allen County SchoolsSchool district1,186FTE
- Sanko Gosei Technologies USAMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing430
- Superior Aluminum AlloysMetal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers180
- Sauder Manufacturing Co - New HavenInstitutional furniture manufacturing157
- SDI LaFarga CopperworksRefining copper, secondary146
- Corrugated Supplies CompanyCorrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard120
- Kroger Central KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores104
- Don R. FrucheyMachinery and equipment, large-scale, installation102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,937 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of New HavenRelatively 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 New Haven’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 Allen County and the Fort Wayne, IN metro.
New Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Haven$242,892
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 New Haven listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- New Haven28.77%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- New Haven23
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- New Haven63
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- New Haven25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- New Haven$245,454
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a New Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.