Prices, pay, taxes, homes and family budgets, county by county, from the same official data the site's calculators use.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures price levels in every state against a national average of 100. Indiana scores 93.3 overall, so a $75,000 salary at average US prices buys what $69,997 buys here. Compare any salary with another state.
| Price level | Indiana (US = 100) | Rank, most expensive first |
|---|---|---|
| Everything | 93.3 | 34th of 51 |
| Rents | 73.9 | 36th of 51 |
| Goods | 95.5 | — |
| Other services | 99.1 | — |
Home electricity averaged 14.77 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2024, against 17.06 across all states. A gallon of regular gas cost $3.41 at the end of August 2026, against $4.12.
Across all 3,201,220 jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts in Indiana, the median pay is $47,860 a year, or $23.01 an hour; that ranks 38th of the 50 states and DC. One worker in ten earns less than $29,120 and one in ten more than $101,160.
Indiana taxes wages at a flat 2.95%. The brackets in Indiana. A single filer on the median $47,860, with no retirement or health deductions, takes home about $39,224 a year, or $1,509 every two weeks, after $3,563 of federal income tax, $3,661 of Social Security and Medicare and $1,412 of state income tax. Work out your own paycheck in Indiana.
The five occupations employing the most people, with their median annual pay:
| Occupation | Jobs | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 103,200 | $41,340 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 97,290 | $28,790 |
| Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators | 85,610 | $45,550 |
| Retail Salespersons | 83,670 | $31,530 |
| Registered Nurses | 68,980 | $83,500 |
Of the 20 largest occupations, the best paid are general and operations managers ($108,170), registered nurses ($83,500), sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ($71,330). See what common jobs pay in every state.
Across the 92 Indiana counties with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $233,695, and across the 44 with their own rent figure the median typical rent is $1,185 a month. A typical home costs 2.83 years of the county's median family income, at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $1,891 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $81,038 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in 53.3% of Indiana's counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
At the median county, home values changed +4.1% over the past year and +32.4% over five years, and rents +4.1% over the past year.
The most expensive Indiana counties are Hamilton County ($470,542), Boone County ($423,125) and Brown County ($365,231); the least expensive are Vermillion County ($136,078), Blackford County ($144,778) and Grant County ($155,576).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county: housing, food, transport, healthcare, childcare, other necessities and taxes. In the median Indiana county, that comes to $42,456 a year for one adult and $93,431 for two adults and two children, of which $14,877 is childcare. The national averages are $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income in the median county is $83,684.
| Two adults, two children | Per year, median county | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | $11,501 | $958 |
| Food | $11,082 | $924 |
| Transportation | $19,643 | $1,637 |
| Healthcare | $15,620 | $1,302 |
| Childcare | $14,877 | $1,240 |
| Other necessities | $6,994 | $583 |
| Taxes | $12,000 | $1,000 |
Each line is its own median across counties, so the lines do not add up exactly to the total.
The Department of Education's College Scorecard lists 147 colleges in Indiana, 48 of them public. The median public college reports a cost of attendance of $19,337 a year, covering tuition, housing, books and other expenses. Ten years after enrolling, the median school's former students earn $43,603. Compare degrees and schools.
| Adams County | $254,781 | +7.1% | — | $78,550 | $90,175 |
| Allen County | $258,784 | +2.9% | $1,303 | $85,796 | $103,211 |
| Bartholomew County | $277,100 | +2.6% | $1,398 | $96,372 | $104,058 |
| Benton County | $205,512 | +4.1% | — | $73,715 | $94,634 |
| Blackford County | $144,778 | +5.9% | — | $63,768 | $88,111 |
| Boone County | $423,125 | +4.1% | $1,926 | $126,593 | $113,174 |
| Brown County | $365,231 | +3.0% | — | $88,873 | $102,127 |
| Carroll County | $241,565 | +5.2% | $1,229 | $80,554 | $97,408 |
| Cass County | $174,896 | +0.3% | — | $69,693 | $87,125 |
| Clark County | $268,165 | +2.0% | $1,276 | $84,880 | $103,408 |
| Clay County | $183,363 | +1.8% | — | $86,506 | $96,738 |
| Clinton County | $229,746 | +5.9% | $921 | $84,253 | $87,946 |
| Crawford County | $171,430 | +5.0% | — | $64,936 | $88,639 |
| Daviess County | $241,052 | +8.0% | — | $88,354 | $88,121 |
| Dearborn County | $333,417 | +5.4% | $1,460 | $100,243 | $99,724 |
| Decatur County | $263,333 | +5.3% | — | $86,716 | $92,371 |
| DeKalb County | $257,085 | +6.5% | $942 | $83,849 | $91,117 |
| Delaware County | $172,499 | +4.5% | $982 | $71,918 | $92,941 |
| Dubois County | $265,348 | +5.8% | $1,367 | $88,076 | $89,978 |
| Elkhart County | $268,131 | +5.6% | $1,134 | $81,948 | $96,962 |
| Fayette County | $163,189 | +3.4% | — | $68,957 | $86,842 |
| Floyd County | $289,954 | +3.0% | $1,170 | $100,551 | $101,911 |
| Fountain County | $194,149 | +6.5% | — | $75,888 | $90,209 |
| Franklin County | $301,771 | +5.3% | — | $90,802 | $100,815 |
| Fulton County | $213,002 | +7.0% | — | $72,079 | $89,347 |
| Gibson County | $211,935 | +5.8% | — | $85,955 | $89,988 |
| Grant County | $155,576 | +4.0% | $957 | $69,127 | $86,942 |
| Greene County | $199,909 | +6.6% | — | $71,350 | $87,733 |
| Hamilton County | $470,542 | +2.9% | $1,854 | $142,701 | $120,776 |
| Hancock County | $332,576 | +2.2% | $1,685 | $112,703 | $107,005 |
| Harrison County | $267,946 | +4.1% | — | $94,408 | $97,454 |
| Hendricks County | $347,608 | +1.5% | $1,839 | $115,610 | $115,644 |
| Henry County | $193,177 | +2.1% | $777 | $75,353 | $89,136 |
| Howard County | $194,967 | +4.9% | $1,014 | $82,009 | $94,722 |
| Huntington County | $213,895 | +5.0% | $881 | $79,799 | $90,953 |
| Jackson County | $230,040 | +2.4% | — | $83,584 | $90,788 |
| Jasper County | $302,243 | +3.5% | — | $95,030 | $104,464 |
| Jay County | $161,235 | +0.5% | — | $68,486 | $87,581 |
| Jefferson County | $240,414 | +5.7% | $1,200 | $73,942 | $86,480 |
| Jennings County | $227,616 | +7.5% | — | $77,144 | $89,348 |
| Johnson County | $317,858 | +1.5% | $1,645 | $102,458 | $108,332 |
| Knox County | $161,327 | +3.5% | — | $79,022 | $86,818 |
| Kosciusko County | $295,139 | +5.9% | $1,287 | $92,064 | $94,419 |
| LaGrange County | $351,478 | +8.9% | — | $91,966 | $97,820 |
| Lake County | $254,401 | +1.7% | $1,465 | $85,329 | $100,655 |
| LaPorte County | $262,759 | +4.1% | $1,120 | $83,369 | $96,928 |
| Lawrence County | $210,503 | +3.5% | $1,275 | $83,272 | $88,840 |
| Madison County | $190,722 | +3.4% | $1,109 | $77,416 | $96,722 |
| Marion County | $232,522 | −0.8% | $1,422 | $80,642 | $100,640 |
| Marshall County | $267,657 | +7.2% | $1,155 | $85,111 | $90,108 |
| Martin County | $206,630 | +3.6% | — | $93,625 | $88,454 |
| Miami County | $164,847 | +8.2% | $922 | $73,849 | $89,847 |
| Monroe County | $317,709 | +1.5% | $1,463 | $96,950 | $103,964 |
| Montgomery County | $227,956 | +3.4% | $888 | $84,395 | $89,220 |
| Morgan County | $303,869 | +1.3% | $1,598 | $95,399 | $100,787 |
| Newton County | $228,131 | +3.9% | — | $79,235 | $100,149 |
| Noble County | $258,062 | +3.8% | $1,031 | $83,319 | $91,856 |
| Ohio County | $285,216 | +4.0% | — | $83,555 | $99,752 |
| Orange County | $186,525 | +4.3% | — | $83,102 | $89,040 |
| Owen County | $235,867 | +5.2% | — | $74,254 | $99,039 |
| Parke County | $225,462 | +7.8% | — | $72,262 | $99,076 |
| Perry County | $190,537 | +2.1% | — | $83,784 | $90,569 |
| Pike County | $183,969 | +11.3% | — | $86,629 | $88,921 |
| Porter County | $334,922 | +2.4% | $1,492 | $102,006 | $104,160 |
| Posey County | $237,324 | +1.2% | $961 | $93,425 | $94,765 |
| Pulaski County | $191,811 | +4.9% | — | $75,673 | $91,451 |
| Putnam County | $277,039 | +4.1% | — | $87,006 | $98,950 |
| Randolph County | $164,676 | +12.0% | $750 | $73,157 | $88,184 |
| Ripley County | $286,742 | +5.5% | — | $89,298 | $89,749 |
| Rush County | $221,126 | +2.9% | — | $79,550 | $89,010 |
| Scott County | $203,925 | +3.3% | — | $73,661 | $87,695 |
| Shelby County | $246,475 | −0.1% | $1,092 | $89,126 | $99,099 |
| Spencer County | $232,541 | +4.4% | — | $95,217 | $91,782 |
| St. Joseph County | $234,849 | +6.3% | $1,317 | $84,866 | $97,491 |
| Starke County | $225,637 | +6.6% | — | $74,958 | $90,629 |
| Steuben County | $322,144 | +6.2% | $1,120 | $90,458 | $93,920 |
| Sullivan County | $161,927 | +0.9% | — | $70,470 | $97,209 |
| Switzerland County | $259,755 | +6.7% | — | $78,583 | $90,214 |
| Tippecanoe County | $301,616 | +2.1% | $1,439 | $85,505 | $99,053 |
| Tipton County | $250,903 | +4.1% | — | $88,611 | $90,458 |
| Union County | $200,873 | +8.6% | — | $96,982 | $97,433 |
| Vanderburgh County | $204,267 | +4.1% | $1,075 | $76,396 | $96,550 |
| Vermillion County | $136,078 | +1.0% | — | $78,883 | $94,024 |
| Vigo County | $164,059 | +0.9% | $1,007 | $73,202 | $95,193 |
| Wabash County | $193,954 | +5.2% | — | $82,541 | $89,152 |
| Warren County | $236,992 | +3.2% | — | $89,375 | $97,900 |
| Warrick County | $295,221 | +4.3% | $1,659 | $112,565 | $101,106 |
| Washington County | $220,157 | +3.4% | — | $78,025 | $92,102 |
| Wayne County | $175,707 | +5.8% | $893 | $75,367 | $88,341 |
| Wells County | $253,857 | +4.7% | — | $84,741 | $91,147 |
| White County | $231,653 | +5.8% | — | $80,337 | $90,782 |
| Whitley County | $285,339 | +5.2% | — | $89,589 | $100,977 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Home values and rents are Zillow's own county figures only; counties Zillow does not cover are left blank rather than filled with a state average.
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