Rolling Prairie, Indiana.
Typical home $322,932 (+6.2% in a year). Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$959 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,974 +6%
- $303,958$322,932 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,002 +32%
- $244,930$322,932 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.
- Rolling Prairie$1,695
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Rolling Prairie, IN rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rolling Prairie, LaPorte County, Indiana
Rolling Prairie, in LaPorte County, had 562 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in LaPorte County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in LaPorte County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rolling Prairie is a very small community in LaPorte County, Indiana, where people tend to know one another and the pace is quiet. Homes here are worth more than what a typical household might expect to pay in many parts of the Midwest, and the county's household incomes sit at a middle level for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across LaPorte County, some of the largest workplaces are Franciscan Health Michigan City, the LaPorte Community School Corp and Howmet - La Porte Castings. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are Saugany Lake, Bendix Woods, a protected area, and the Galena River, which suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Indiana Dunes National Park is a longer drive away, as is Notre Dame Stadium.
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What people in LaPorte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaPorte County had 40,196 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°. About 65 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laporte weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in LaPorte County
- Franciscan Health Michigan CityGeneral hospital942FTE
- LaPorte Community School CorpSchool district860FTE
- Howmet - La Porte CastingsFoundries, nonferrous metals828
- Michigan City Area SchoolsSchool district716FTE
- La Porte Hospital CompanyGeneral medical and surgical hospitals667
- Hitachi Global Air PowerCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing649
- Laporte HospitalGeneral hospital574FTE
- Boyd GamingHotel casino570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,711 people in all across the county; Rolling Prairie has none 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rolling Prairie’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 LaPorte County and the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
Rolling Prairie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rolling Prairie$322,932
- 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.
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.
- Rolling Prairie14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rolling Prairie5
Zip codes with a Rolling Prairie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rolling Prairie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.