Roanoke, Indiana.
Typical home $367,785 (+3.6% in a year). Huntington, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,066 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,839 +4%
- $354,946$367,785 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,925 +27%
- $289,860$367,785 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.
- Roanoke$1,930
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Roanoke, IN rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roanoke, Huntington County, Indiana
Roanoke is a town of 1,762 people in Huntington County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Huntington County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roanoke is a small town in Huntington County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical age is a little below the national middle. Home values run high for the area, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than hold none. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Huntington County, some of the largest workplaces are Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, Huntington University and Our Sunday Visitor. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. J. Edward Roush Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is the United States Vice Presidential Museum. For a longer outing, the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is a longer drive away, and so is Chain O'Lakes State Park, a protected area with trails and lakes.
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- 877households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huntington County had 13,857 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Wayne International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huntington County
- CSP InnovationsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing758
- Huntington Co Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district659FTE
- Bendix Commercial Vehicle SystemsBrake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing403
- Huntington UniversityUniversity or college372
- Avancez AssemblyRadiators and cores manufacturing330
- Our Sunday VisitorReligious organizations330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Huntington County GovernmentExecutive offices, federal, state, and local262
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,125 people in all across the county; Roanoke has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roanoke’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 Huntington County and the Huntington, IN metro.
Roanoke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roanoke$367,785
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Roanoke listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Roanoke27.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Roanoke32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Roanoke10
Zip codes with a Roanoke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roanoke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.