Staunton, Indiana.
Typical home $123,459 (-9.3% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$323 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,672 -9%
- $136,132$123,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,339 +15%
- $107,120$123,459 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.
- Staunton$648
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Staunton, IN fell 9.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Staunton, Clay County, Indiana
Staunton is a town of 472 people in Clay County. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 5.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Staunton is a very small Indiana town in Clay County, home to a close-knit community. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in transport and warehousing. Across Clay County, some of the biggest employers are Great Dane in Brazil, which builds truck trailers, Clay Community Schools, and Walmart. The typical commute is fairly long, and almost no one works from home. Jobs across the county fell over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Cataract Falls is a waterfall, and Turkey Run State Park is a protected area of woods and trails; both are a longer drive away. For a museum, the Swope Art Museum is also a longer drive away, as is the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 7,742 jobs in 2025, 5.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Terre Haute Caa Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Great Dane - BrazilTruck trailer manufacturing897
- Clay Community SchoolsSchool district608FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores144
- Morris Manufacturing & SalesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing129
- Towne park senior livingSkilled nursing facilities122
- Technifab ProductsMetal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing120
- Cloverleaf HealthcareNursing homes116
- Metals and AdditivesLead oxides manufacturing104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,311 people in all across the county; Staunton 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Staunton’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 Clay County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Staunton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Staunton$123,459
- 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 Staunton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Staunton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.