Sunman, Indiana.
Typical home $348,698 (+6.1% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,055 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,144 +6%
- $328,554$348,698 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,709 +31%
- $265,989$348,698 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.
- Sunman$1,830
- 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 Sunman, IN rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunman, Ripley County, Indiana
Sunman is a town of 914 people in Ripley County. Half its households earn more than $73,413 a year and half less, against $70,573 across Ripley County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Ripley County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunman is a very small town in Ripley County, with a population that is easy to know by sight. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and summers warm but not extreme, and the town sits in rolling country where creeks and rivers are never far off.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Ripley County, the largest workplaces include Baxter Manufacturing, Margaret Mary Community Hospital and Batesville Casket Doll Plant. Jobs across the county dipped last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Jericho Creek is a river a short drive away, and the closest of the nearby places. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to Versailles State Park, a protected area good for a day outdoors, and to Perfect North Slopes, a ski area that suits the cold months. The Creation Museum is also a longer drive away for those who like a museum visit.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ripley County had 11,001 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan Northeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ripley County
- Baxter ManufacturingHospital beds manufacturing1,125
- BAXTER - Administrative CampusCentralized administrative offices843
- Thrive Market Batesville Fulfillment CenterGeneral warehousing and storage591
- Margaret Mary Community HospitalCritical access hospital495FTE
- Batesville Casket Doll PlantBurial caskets and cases manufacturing325
- Crum TruckingTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload231
- Wood-Mizer - BatesvilleSawmill equipment manufacturing171
- South Ripley Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district152FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,564 people in all across the county; Sunman has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Sunman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Ripley County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Sunman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunman$348,698
- 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.
- Sunman13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sunman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.