Rockport, Indiana.
Typical home $214,398 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$606 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,525 +5%
- $204,874$214,398 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,167 +26%
- $170,231$214,398 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.
- Rockport$1,125
- 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 Rockport, IN rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana
Rockport is a city of 1,984 people in Spencer County. Half its households earn more than $48,889 a year and half less, against $74,506 across Spencer County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Spencer County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockport is a small city in Spencer County, Indiana, and the people who live here tend to be older than in most places. Incomes run well below the county's as a whole, and a good share of households live under the poverty line. Homes are lived in by their owners slightly more often than they are rented, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Rockport include South Spencer County Schools, The Waters of Rockport and Houchens Food Group. Across Spencer County there were somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment has held roughly steady over the past year.
Things to do. Lincoln Pioneer Village, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Blackford Creek, a river, and the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a protected area, and to Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, an amusement park. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
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- 972households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spencer County had 6,874 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonville 1S weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockport
- South Spencer County Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district93FTE
- The Waters of RockportNursing homes57
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 83 people in all. 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 windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockport’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 Spencer County.
Rockport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockport$214,398
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Rockport 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.
- Rockport27.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockport23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockport6
Zip codes with a Rockport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.