Norman, Indiana.
Typical home $243,761 (+3.6% in a year). Seymour, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$722 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,562 +4%
- $235,199$243,761 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,235 +27%
- $192,525$243,761 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.
- Norman$1,279
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Norman, IN rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norman, Jackson County, Indiana
The Census does not count Norman on its own, so the figures here are Jackson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,262 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norman is a town in Jackson County, in southern Indiana, a region of farmland, small towns and wooded hills. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the area gets a fair amount of rain through the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped over the same period. Fewer adults hold a college degree than the national average, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Hickory Ridge Fire Tower, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away. Brown County State Park, a protected area, and the Eskenazi Museum of Art, a museum, are both a longer drive away.
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- 18,138households
- 38.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 22,138 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 16 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oolitic Purdue Ex Fm weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,274
- Cumins SEPEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing1,161
- ValeoAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing1,112
- Schneck Medical CenterGeneral hospital782FTE
- Seymour Community SchoolsSchool district670FTE
- lannettPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing426
- Nippon Steel Pipe AmericaSteel manufacturing420
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,234 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jackson County, 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 Jackson County and the Seymour, IN metro.
Norman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norman$243,761
- 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.
- Norman7
Zip codes with a Norman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.