Rising Sun, Indiana.
Typical home $278,302 (+3.5% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$855 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,315 +3%
- $268,987$278,302 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,359 +33%
- $208,944$278,302 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.
- Rising Sun$1,461
- 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 Rising Sun, IN rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rising Sun, Ohio County, Indiana
Rising Sun is a city of 2,248 people in Ohio County. Half its households earn more than $58,843 a year and half less, against $70,392 across Ohio County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Ohio County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rising Sun is a small river city in Ohio County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a typical home is worth a good deal less than in many parts of the country. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Ohio County, some of the largest workplaces are a casino-entertainment business, the local school district and a chemical manufacturer. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people work from home, and a typical commute is fairly long.
Things to do. Laughery Creek, a short drive away, is the closest waterway for a day outdoors. The Creation Museum is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and the Cincinnati Art Museum are both a longer drive away.
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- 1,074households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ohio County had 1,088 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer 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 86° and lows near 66°. About 23 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cincinnati Northern Ky Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ohio County
- Gaming Entertainment (indiana)Casino-entertainment295
- Rising Sun-Ohio Co Com SchoolsSchool district133FTE
- Infinity Healthcare ManagementNursing homes58
- OMI Industries Inc. (Operations)Chemical manufacture39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 392 people in all across the county; Rising Sun has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Rising Sun’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 Ohio County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Rising Sun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rising Sun$278,302
- 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.
- Rising Sun15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rising Sun5
Zip codes with a Rising Sun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rising Sun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.