Williamsburg, Indiana.
Typical home $242,235 (+8.0% in a year). Richmond, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,936 +8%
- $224,299$242,235 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,580 +47%
- $164,655$242,235 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.
- Williamsburg$1,271
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Williamsburg, IN rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamsburg, Wayne County, Indiana
Williamsburg is in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamsburg is a small community in Wayne County, Indiana, where neighbors tend to know one another. Its winters are colder than most of the country's, and the cold months bring real freezing weather. Summers are warm, and the area receives a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in shops and restaurants. In Wayne County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county had slightly fewer jobs in its most recent year. Very few adults here hold a college degree, and few people work from home, so most residents travel out each day for work.
Things to do. For a short outing, the Levi Coffin House and the Abram Gaar House and Farm are both museums a short drive away. Summit Lake State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive off.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 29,380 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richmond Wtr Wks weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Reid Hospital & Health Care ServicesGeneral hospital1,246FTE
- Richmond Community SchoolsSchool district666FTE
- Sugar Creek Packing Co. CCIBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses651
- City Of RichmondGeneral public administration580
- Indiana University-EastUniversity or college396
- Earlham CollegeUniversity or college362
- Richmond State HospitalPsychiatric hospital361FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 88 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,117 people in all across the county; Williamsburg has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne County, 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 Wayne County and the Richmond, IN metro.
Williamsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamsburg$242,235
- 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 Williamsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.