Walkerton, Indiana.
Typical home $235,199 (+5.5% in a year). Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$733 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,362 +6%
- $222,837$235,199 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,016 +39%
- $169,183$235,199 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.
- Walkerton$1,235
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Walkerton, IN rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walkerton, LaPorte County, Indiana
Walkerton is a town of 2,096 people in LaPorte County. Half its households earn more than $65,340 a year and half less, against $71,055 across LaPorte County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in LaPorte County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walkerton is a small town in LaPorte County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit in a middle range for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in wholesale. Among the biggest workplaces in town are John Glenn School, Masonite Walkerton and Modern Door. Most people commute a moderate distance, and few work from home.
Things to do. Potato Creek State Park, a protected area, and Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area are both a short drive away, which suits walking and time outdoors. For something different, the Studebaker National Museum is a longer drive away. Notre Dame Stadium is also a longer drive, for those who want to see a game.
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- 796households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaPorte County had 40,196 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 55 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walkerton
- John Glenn School CorporationSchool district265FTE
- Masonite WalkertonDoors, wood and covered wood, manufacturing210
- Modern DoorDoors, metal, manufacturing117
- Millers Merry ManorSkilled nursing facilities67
- American Roller CompanyRolls and roll coverings, rubber manufacturing43
- Pye Barker Fire Safety LLC Vermillion22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 459 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walkerton’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 LaPorte County and the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
Walkerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walkerton$235,199
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Walkerton listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Walkerton32.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walkerton42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Walkerton8
Zip codes with a Walkerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walkerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.