Shirley, Indiana.
Typical home $217,323 (+5.4% in a year). New Castle, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$645 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,102 +5%
- $206,221$217,323 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,728 +32%
- $164,595$217,323 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.
- Shirley$1,141
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Shirley, IN rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shirley, Henry County, Indiana
Shirley is a town of 819 people in Henry County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shirley is a small town where almost everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share of owners than is typical across the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and poverty is not widespread. Winters are cold and snowy, with a January chill that settles in for weeks, while summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across Henry County, some of the largest workplaces are Boar's Head in New Castle, Crown Equipment in New Castle, and Henry County Memorial Hospital. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are Hoosier Gym, a stadium, and Mount Lawn Speedway, a race track. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Mounds State Park, a protected area, and to Minnetrista, a botanical garden.
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- 382households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Henry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 13,967 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 25 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Castle Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henry County
- Boar's Head - New CastleProcessed meats manufacturing940
- TS Tech Indiana606
- New Castle Community School CorpSchool district574FTE
- Henry County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital462FTE
- Crown Equipment New Castle, IndianaForklifts manufacturing397
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- Shenandoah School CorporationSchool district150FTE
- C A Beard Memorial School CorpSchool district147FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,678 people in all across the county; Shirley has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Shirley’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 Henry County and the New Castle, IN metro.
Shirley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shirley$217,323
- 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.
- Shirley8
Zip codes with a Shirley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shirley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Shirley
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47384 | Shirley | 2,161 | — | $229,705 |
| 47351 | Kennard | 397 | — | $158,072 |