Wheatfield, Indiana.
Typical home $336,471 (+3.3% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,015 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,645 +3%
- $325,826$336,471 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,213 +33%
- $253,258$336,471 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.
- Wheatfield$1,766
- 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 Wheatfield, IN rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheatfield, Jasper County, Indiana
Wheatfield is a town of 904 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $73,375 a year and half less, against $77,314 across Jasper County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheatfield is a very small town in Jasper County, Indiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs near freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Jasper County, the largest workplaces include Kankakee Valley School, Conagra Brands and Advance Auto Parts DC 31. Typical commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Kankakee is a short drive away, as is Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, Taltree Arboretum and Gardens is a botanical garden and a longer drive. The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum is another longer drive for anyone who likes railway history.
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- 329households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 11,389 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheatfield weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Kankakee Valley School CorpSchool district453FTE
- FBi Buildings Inc Summit Heartland Summit Smart Farms Bahler Group EIB BESCO AspenCommercial and institutional building construction380
- Advance Auto Parts DC 31Automotive parts343
- Rensselaer Central School CorpSchool district250FTE
- Conagra BrandsAll other miscellaneous food manufacturing241
- Donaldson Company RensselaerGeneral warehousing and storage231
- NiSourceCombination utilities197
- Talbert ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing185
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,235 people in all across the county; Wheatfield has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Wheatfield’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 Jasper County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Wheatfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheatfield$336,471
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wheatfield listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Wheatfield32.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wheatfield31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wheatfield12
Zip codes with a Wheatfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheatfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.