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Housing in Chrisney

A typical Chrisney home is worth about $240,000

Up 7.5% in a year, 8% below the Indiana typical home.

Typical home value
$240K
▲ 7.5% in a year · IN $260K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,040
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$558
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Chrisney?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Price trend

Up 35.7% in five years

Faster than Indiana (28.9%).

ChrisneyIndiana
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K$275K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryChrisneyIndiana
2017$120,000$135,000
2018$122,000$144,000
2019$130,000$154,000
2020$141,000$164,000
2021$162,000$183,000
2022$180,000$209,000
2023$192,000$227,000
2024$205,000$237,000
2025$222,000$249,000
2026$229,000$256,000
August 2026$240,000$260,000
Then & now

A typical Chrisney home worth $119K in September 2016 is worth about $240K today.

+$121K
+7.5%
past year
+35.7%
past 5 years
+102.2%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

The homes

73% of Chrisney households own their home

Half of Chrisney’s homes were built before 1947.

Owners and renters
Own 73%Rent 27%

Indiana: 71% own.

1947
typical home built · IN 1976
$558
median property tax bill · IN $1,614

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Chrisney

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$287,000
Typical Chrisney home $240K

That covers a typical Chrisney home, with $47K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,410
Loan $1,190Tax $150Insurance $70

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $370 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Indiana typical property tax (0.74% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040

Renters already here pay a median of $625, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$1,040
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,490
27%
of households rent · IN 29%
48
renter households
$625
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Spencer County, IN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

On the market in Chrisney

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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