Westpoint, Indiana.
Typical home $368,113 (+5.1% in a year). Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,087 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,749 +5%
- $350,364$368,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,850 +28%
- $288,263$368,113 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.
- Westpoint$1,932
- 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 Westpoint, IN rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westpoint, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Westpoint, in Tippecanoe County, had 318 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $125,409 a year and half less, against $60,636 across Tippecanoe County. Unemployment in Tippecanoe County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tippecanoe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westpoint is a very small community in Tippecanoe County, with far fewer people than most towns. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and the typical home is valued at a level that reflects that. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Tippecanoe County, Purdue University is the largest workplace, followed by Subaru of Indiana Automotive and Lafayette Engine Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Fort Ouiatenon, a historic fort, and Samara, a museum, are each a short drive away. The Purdue University Horticulture Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Tippecanoe River is a longer drive away.
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What people in Tippecanoe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tippecanoe County had 91,936 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer 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 63°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette Purdue Univ Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tippecanoe County
- Purdue UniversityUniversity or college12,300
- Subaru of Indiana AutomotiveAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture6,415
- Lafayette Engine CenterDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing2,834
- Purdue University GlobalUniversity or college2,670
- Wabash Lafayette NorthTruck trailers1,780
- Tippecanoe School CorpSchool district1,456FTE
- Franciscan Health LafayetteGeneral hospital1,222FTE
- IU Health Arnett HospitalGeneral hospital1,010FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 145 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,390 people in all across the county; Westpoint has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westpoint’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 Tippecanoe County and the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro.
Westpoint home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westpoint$368,113
- 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.
Zip codes with a Westpoint address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westpoint — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.