Shelburn, Indiana.
Typical home $148,420 (-3.9% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$383 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,960 -4%
- $154,380$148,420 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,812 +26%
- $117,608$148,420 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.
- Shelburn$779
- 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 Shelburn, IN fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shelburn, Sullivan County, Indiana
Shelburn is a town of 1,107 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $46,458 a year and half less, against $56,204 across Sullivan County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shelburn is a small Indiana town in Sullivan County, home to a close-knit community of the kind where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while July brings warm summer days, 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 also employing many. Across Sullivan County, the largest workplaces include Sullivan County Community Hospital, the Southwest School district and Raybestos Powertrain. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Shakamak State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits walks and time outdoors. Also a short drive away is the Sherman Building, a theatre, and Busseron Creek, a river. A longer drive brings you to Greene–Sullivan State Forest, another protected area with more room to roam.
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- 553households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 5,632 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmersburg Tv-2 weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Sullivan County Community HospitalCritical access hospital374FTE
- Southwest School CorporationSchool district241FTE
- Raybestos PowertrainPersonal goods, metal, manufacturing159
- Consolidated Asset Management Services, (Indiana)Electric power generation, fossil fuel140
- WalmartDiscount department stores110
- Dugger Union Community School CorpSchool district94FTE
- Waters of SllivanSkilled nursing facilities68
- Northeast School CorpSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 677 people in all across the county; Shelburn 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shelburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Sullivan County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Shelburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shelburn$148,420
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shelburn8
Zip codes with a Shelburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shelburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.