Roachdale, Indiana.
Typical home $260,634 (+4.2% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$828 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,527 +4%
- $250,108$260,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,970 +42%
- $183,664$260,634 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.
- Roachdale$1,368
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Roachdale, IN rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roachdale, Putnam County, Indiana
Roachdale is a town of 840 people in Putnam County. Half its households earn more than $66,216 a year and half less, against $78,378 across Putnam County. Unemployment in Putnam County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Putnam 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roachdale is a very small Indiana town in Putnam County, with a younger population than many small towns and few adults holding a four-year degree. Household incomes run below the county's, yet a typical home is valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities close behind. Across Putnam County, some of the largest workplaces are Crown Equipment, which makes industrial trucks and stackers, DePauw University, and Walmart. Commutes are long, and almost no one works from home. The county has been adding jobs, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Several parks and natural areas lie within a longer drive, including Turkey Run State Park and Shades State Park, both protected areas, and Cataract Falls, a waterfall. For something indoors, the General Lew Wallace Study is a museum, also a longer drive away. Each of these trips takes some planning rather than being a quick outing.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Putnam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 12,562 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 22 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crawfordsville Southeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Putnam County
- Ascena Retail GroupGeneral warehousing and storage927
- Crown EquipmentStackers, industrial, truck-type, manufacturing876
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage598
- DePauw UniversityUniversity or college574
- Heartland Automotive HQMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing492
- Chiyoda USAPlastics working machinery manufacturing413
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing305
- Putnam County HospitalCritical access hospital298FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,997 people in all across the county; Roachdale has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roachdale’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 Putnam County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Roachdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roachdale$260,634
- 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.
- Roachdale8
Zip codes with a Roachdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roachdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.