Sweetser, Indiana.
Typical home $184,815 (+4.4% in a year). Marion, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$556 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,809 +4%
- $177,006$184,815 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,213 +34%
- $137,602$184,815 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.
- Sweetser$970
- 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 Sweetser, IN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sweetser, Grant County, Indiana
Sweetser is a town of 1,075 people in Grant County. Half its households earn more than $80,625 a year and half less, against $53,522 across Grant County. Unemployment in Grant County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sweetser is a small Indiana town in Grant County, home to a close-knit community at the last census. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and the typical home is valued at a level many families across the Midwest would find within reach. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow come through steadily across the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Some people work from home, though most travel to a job. Across Grant County, some of the largest workplaces are Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, Marion General Hospital and General Motors Marion Stamping. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Wildcat Creek is a river a longer drive away, and Salamonie River State Forest is a protected area also a longer drive away, good for walking and time among the trees. For an indoor outing, the International Circus Hall of Fame is a museum a longer drive away, as is the Grissom Air Museum. These are trips to plan for, rather than quick errands down the road.
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What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 27,713 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion North weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Indiana Wesleyan University-MarionUniversity or college1,796
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,143
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs900
- Cafe ValleyCommercial bakeries773
- General Motors Marion StampingMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing757
- Marion General HospitalGeneral hospital699FTE
- MarionGeneral warehousing and storage690
- Marion Community SchoolsSchool district570FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,267 people in all across the county; Sweetser has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sweetser’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 Grant County and the Marion, IN metro.
Sweetser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sweetser$184,815
- 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.
- Sweetser10
Zip codes with a Sweetser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sweetser — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.