Otterbein, Indiana.
Typical home $222,756 (+0.9% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$668 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,007 +1%
- $220,749$222,756 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,779 +31%
- $169,977$222,756 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.
- Otterbein$1,169
- 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 Otterbein, IN rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Otterbein, Warren County, Indiana
Otterbein is a town of 1,144 people in Warren County. Half its households earn more than $63,698 a year and half less, against $82,425 across Warren County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Otterbein is a small Indiana town in Warren County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are warm.
Work. People who live here work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Warren County, some of the largest workplaces are Flex N Gate Covington, a maker of automotive parts, Tru-Flex, which makes exhaust parts, and MSD Warren County Schools. Few residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Several places are a short drive away, including Samara, a museum, and Fort Ouiatenon, a historic fort. Ross–Ade Stadium is also close by. For a longer outing, Prophetstown State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 595households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 1,980 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Lafayette Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Flex N Gate CovingtonOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing243
- TMF CenterMachine shops206
- Flex-N-Gate LogisticsMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload126
- Tru-FlexCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing104
- MSD Warren CountySchool district96FTE
- Ascension St. Vincent WilliamsportCritical access hospital73FTE
- KuriTec ManufacturingHoses, reinforced, rubber or plastics, manufacturing72
- Warren DairyDairy farm64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,033 people in all across the county; Otterbein has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Otterbein’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 Warren County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Otterbein home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Otterbein$222,756
- 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.
- Otterbein14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Otterbein6
Zip codes with a Otterbein address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Otterbein — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.