Pierceton, Indiana.
Typical home $262,195 (+8.0% in a year). Warsaw, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$782 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,353 +8%
- $242,842$262,195 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,694 +33%
- $197,501$262,195 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.
- Pierceton$1,376
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pierceton, IN rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierceton, Kosciusko County, Indiana
Pierceton is a town of 928 people in Kosciusko County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Kosciusko County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kosciusko 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierceton is a small town in Kosciusko County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a modest one. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Pierceton are The Otis R. Bowen Center, Paragon Medical and Omco. Across Kosciusko County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though there are slightly fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Tippecanoe Lake and Big Barbee Lake are both lakes a short drive away, and the Billy Sunday Historic Home, a museum, is a short drive away too. Chain O'Lakes State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 602households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Kosciusko County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kosciusko County had 35,757 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warsaw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierceton
- THE Otis R. Bowen CenterPsychiatric hospital1,145FTE
- Ametek, IncSurgical and medical instrument manufacturing121
- OmcoBars, steel, made in cold rolling mills made from purchased steel116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 237 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierceton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Kosciusko County and the Warsaw, IN metro.
Pierceton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierceton$262,195
- 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.
- Pierceton16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pierceton6
Zip codes with a Pierceton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierceton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.