Seymour, Indiana.
Typical home $229,245 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,395 . Seymour, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$652 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,744 +2%
- $225,501$229,245 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,352 +27%
- $180,893$229,245 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.
- Seymour$1,203
- 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 Seymour, IN rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana
Seymour is a city of 21,569 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $64,426 a year and half less, against $70,262 across Jackson County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seymour is a city in Jackson County, Indiana, with a younger population than many places its size and a fairly modest share of adults holding a four-year degree. Incomes run below the county's, and somewhat more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a little snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Manufacturing, schools and hospitals, shops, and restaurants and hotels employ the most residents. Some of the largest workplaces in Seymour are Walmart, Valeo, which makes automotive lighting, and Schneck Medical Center. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Jobs across Jackson County were slightly fewer last year than the year before, though unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. The Freeman Army Airfield Museum is in or beside town. Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge is a short drive away and is a protected area for walking and watching birds. Miller House and Garden is a museum a longer drive away, and Brown County State Park, also a longer drive, is a protected area with trails and woods.
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- 8,382households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 22,138 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 8 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seymour North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seymour
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,274
- ValeoAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing1,112
- Schneck Medical CenterGeneral hospital782FTE
- Seymour Community SchoolsSchool district670FTE
- lannettPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing426
- Nippon Steel Pipe AmericaSteel manufacturing420
- SyscendBicycles and parts manufacturing238
- Silgan PlasticsBottles, plastics, manufacturing201
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,535 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 high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SeymourRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seymour’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 Jackson County and the Seymour, IN metro.
Seymour home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seymour$229,245
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Seymour listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Seymour32.58%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Seymour13
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seymour110
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Seymour32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Seymour$222,506
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seymour address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seymour — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.