Plainville, Indiana.
Typical home $117,546 (+3.9% in a year). Washington, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,465 +4%
- $113,081$117,546 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,731 +35%
- $86,814$117,546 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.
- Plainville$617
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Plainville, IN rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainville, Daviess County, Indiana
Plainville is a town of 499 people in Daviess County. Half its households earn more than $51,094 a year and half less, against $68,503 across Daviess County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Daviess County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Daviess 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainville is a very small town in Daviess County, Indiana, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with some snow, while summers turn properly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Daviess County, some of the largest workplaces are Perdue Foods, Daviess Community Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and most people drive a moderate distance to their jobs.
Things to do. The Prairie Creek Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Shakamak State Park, a protected area for time outdoors, and to the Forts of Vincennes, a historic fort.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Daviess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Daviess County had 13,307 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elnora weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Daviess County
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing816
- Daviess Community HospitalGeneral hospital373FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters349
- True Rx Management Services - WashingtonClaims processing services, insurance, third-party305
- Grain ProcessingWet milling corn and other vegetables260
- Graber Post BuildingsConstruction management, commercial and institutional building244
- Washington Community SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Barr-Reeve Community SchoolsSchool district125FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,407 people in all across the county; Plainville has one of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainville’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 Daviess County and the Washington, IN metro.
Plainville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainville$117,546
- 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 Plainville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.