Orestes, Indiana.
Typical home $115,058 (+10.0% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$109 (+22%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,470 +10%
- $104,588$115,058 since Sep 2025
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.
- Orestes$604
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Orestes, IN rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orestes, Madison County, Indiana
Orestes is a town of 329 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orestes is a very small town in Madison County, Indiana, with a population that would fit in a single neighborhood of a larger city. Homes here cost well below what is typical across the country, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Anderson Community School, Community Hospital Anderson and Ascension St. Vincent Anderson. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Several parks and gardens lie a longer drive away. Mounds State Park is a protected area, and Wildcat Creek is a river good for time near the water. Minnetrista is a botanical garden, and Conner Prairie is a museum for a day indoors when the weather turns cold.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 40,359 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elwood weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Anderson Community School CorpSchool district923FTE
- Community Hospital AndersonGeneral hospital873FTE
- ElsaAutomotive parts manufacturer700
- Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino623
- Ascension St. Vincent AndersonGeneral hospital535FTE
- Carter Express - AndersonTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload526
- NTN Driveshaft AndersonDrive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing523
- South Madison Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district508FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 100 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,948 people in all across the county; Orestes 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orestes’ 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 Madison County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Orestes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orestes$115,058
- 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.
Zip codes with a Orestes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orestes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.