Thorntown, Indiana.
Typical home $337,805 (+4.9% in a year). Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$989 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,796 +5%
- $322,009$337,805 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,319 +29%
- $262,486$337,805 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.
- Thorntown$1,773
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Thorntown, IN rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thorntown, Boone County, Indiana
Thorntown is a town of 1,432 people in Boone County. Half its households earn more than $73,750 a year and half less, against $111,250 across Boone County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Boone County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thorntown is a very small Indiana town in Boone County, home to only a modest number of residents, who are mostly homeowners. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might expect elsewhere in the area. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Boone County, some of the biggest workplaces are Amazon, Zionsville Community Schools and Witham Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago. The typical commute is fairly long, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Old Indiana Fun Park, an amusement park, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Prophetstown State Park, a protected area, and to the Tippecanoe River for time by the water. Fort Ouiatenon, a historic fort, is also a longer drive off.
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- 447households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 47,871 jobs in 2025, 5.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frankfort Disposal weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,733
- GXO Logistics Supply ChainGeneral warehousing and storage2,094
- Zionsville Community SchoolsSchool district967FTE
- Witham Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital614FTE
- Atls B1LG497
- Coca Cola Consolidated480
- Lebanon Community School CorpSchool district474FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services459
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 120 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,548 people in all across the county; Thorntown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Thorntown’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 Boone County and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN metro.
Thorntown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thorntown$337,805
- 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.
- Thorntown14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thorntown6
Zip codes with a Thorntown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thorntown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.