Spencerville, Indiana.
. Auburn, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
Living in Spencerville, DeKalb County, Indiana
Spencerville is in DeKalb County. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in DeKalb 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spencerville is a community in DeKalb County, in the northeastern part of Indiana. Its residents live in a county of small towns and farmland, with the wider region close by. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall over much of the year.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Commutes to work are fairly brief, which keeps much of daily life close to home.
Things to do. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, a museum devoted to classic automobiles, is a short drive away. Farther off, the St. Joseph River and the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo are each a longer drive away.
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- 19 mintypical commute
What people in DeKalb County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 21,585 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hicksville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DeKalb County
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - ButlerSteel manufacturing1,087
- Fortune Brands InnovationManufacturer of doors861
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage755
- Nucor Building SystemsBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing546
- DeKalb Co Ctl United Sch Dist SchoolsSchool district440FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
- Multimatic IndianaJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing335
- DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist SchoolsSchool district318FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,841 people in all across the county; Spencerville has none of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across DeKalb 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 DeKalb County and the Auburn, IN metro.
Spencerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Spencerville7
Zip codes with a Spencerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spencerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.