Rome, Indiana.
Typical home $174,913 (+1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,623 +2%
- $172,290$174,913 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,989 +18%
- $147,924$174,913 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.
- Rome$918
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Rome, IN rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rome, Perry County, Indiana
The Census does not count Rome on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,151 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rome is a small town in Perry County, in southern Indiana. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents cover a range of ages, and a fair share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in retail shops. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though the county had fewer jobs than the year before. Commutes are fairly short, few people work from home, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Wyandotte Caves is a tourist attraction a longer drive away. Oil Creek, a river a short drive away, is one option for time outdoors, and Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 7,758households
- 41.9median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 6,307 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 11 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cannelton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 5Iron foundries955
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters350
- Perry County HospitalCritical access hospital205FTE
- Tell City-Troy Twp School CorpSchool district177FTE
- Perry Central Com Schools CorpSchool district174FTE
- Lincoln Hills DevelopmentIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose130
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities118
- BrickyardNursing care facility87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,911 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Perry County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Perry County.
Rome home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rome$174,913
- 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.
Zip codes with a Rome address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rome — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.