Newport, Indiana.
Typical home $137,775 (+2.6% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$424 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,427 +3%
- $134,348$137,775 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,479 +28%
- $107,296$137,775 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.
- Newport$723
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Newport, IN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Vermillion County, Indiana
Newport is a town of 416 people in Vermillion County. Unemployment in Vermillion County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vermillion County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a very small town and the seat of Vermillion County, in western Indiana. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across the county run modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and commutes to work tend to be long, so many residents drive well out of town each day.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Vermillion County, the largest workplaces include Elanco Clinton, which makes pharmaceutical preparations, the South Vermillion school district, and International Paper, which makes kraft liner board. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment has eased a little from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Little Vermilion River runs in or beside town, a river that suits a quiet walk along the bank. A longer drive away are Turkey Run State Park and Shades State Park, both protected areas of the kind people visit for hiking and time outdoors, and Williamsport Falls, a waterfall. Winters are cold and fairly snowy, and summers are warm, so the outdoor places are easiest to enjoy in the warmer months.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 42 mintypical commute
What people in Vermillion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermillion County had 4,527 jobs in 2025, 5.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 13 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rockville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermillion County
- Elanco ClintonPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing507
- South Vermillion Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- International PaperKraft liner board manufacturing181
- WalmartDiscount department stores128
- North Vermillion Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- Union Hospital ClintonCritical access hospital115FTE
- Magnolia Health Management XXVIINursing homes108
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation94
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,212 people in all across the county; Newport has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Newport’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 Vermillion County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$137,775
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Newport
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47854 | Hillsdale | 902 | — | $198,971 |
| 47966 | Newport | 346 | — | $76,571 |