Oolitic, Indiana.
Typical home $179,344 (+3.4% in a year). Bedford, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$547 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,963 +3%
- $173,381$179,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,815 +30%
- $137,529$179,344 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.
- Oolitic$941
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Oolitic, IN rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oolitic, Lawrence County, Indiana
Oolitic is a town of 1,137 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $59,018 a year and half less, against $66,468 across Lawrence County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oolitic is a small town in Lawrence County, home to a small community where most people know one another. Most households own the place they live in, and incomes run somewhat below the county's, though few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with professional and business services close behind. Across Lawrence County, some of the biggest workplaces are General Motors Bedford, North Lawrence Community Schools and Walmart. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and only a small group of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Bluespring Caverns is a tourist attraction, and Salt Creek offers a river to walk beside or fish. Otis Park and Golf Course is another short drive for time outdoors. For a longer outing, Spring Mill State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 597households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 14,002 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- General Motors BedfordFoundries, die-casting, aluminum650
- North Lawrence Com SchoolsSchool district478FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters404
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical268
- Indiana University Health BedfordCritical access hospital260FTE
- Mitchell Community SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- C&M ConveyorPassenger baggage belt loaders manufacturing221
- City of BedfordMayor's offices168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,743 people in all across the county; Oolitic 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oolitic’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 Lawrence County and the Bedford, IN metro.
Oolitic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oolitic$179,344
- 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.
- Oolitic12
Zip codes with a Oolitic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oolitic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.