Sullivan, Indiana.
Typical home $175,023 (+1.7% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$530 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,905 +2%
- $172,118$175,023 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,316 +32%
- $132,707$175,023 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.
- Sullivan$919
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Sullivan, IN rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana
Sullivan is a city of 4,264 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $46,551 a year and half less, against $56,204 across Sullivan County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sullivan is a small city in western Indiana, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and a good share of households live under the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Sullivan are Southwest School, Raybestos Powertrain and Waters of Sullivan. Joblessness in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and a typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. In town or beside it, the Sherman Building is a theatre. A longer drive away is Shakamak State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Also a longer drive away, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park is a museum tied to the early history of the region.
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- 1,749households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shakamak Sp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan
- Southwest School CorporationSchool district241FTE
- Raybestos PowertrainPersonal goods, metal, manufacturing159
- Waters of SllivanSkilled nursing facilities68
- Sodexo at Southwest School Corp FoodFood service contractors36
- Sodexo at Southwest School Corp FACFacilities support services29
- Developmental ServicesVocational rehabilitation agencies22
- Indiana Department of Child Services - Sullivan CountyChild welfare services22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 336 people in all. 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 in parts of SullivanRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of SullivanRelatively 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 Sullivan’s census tracts, 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 Sullivan County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Sullivan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sullivan$175,023
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sullivan listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Sullivan27.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sullivan30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sullivan10
Zip codes with a Sullivan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sullivan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.