A typical French Lick home is worth roughly $85,000
Builders were permitted 9 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is French Lick?
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A typical home costs 1.6 years of income
Less than across Indiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical French Lick home, with $136K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $500 more than owning.
How French Lick ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, French Lick’s typical property tax (0.68% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $990
Renters already here pay a median of $828, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Dubois County, IN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
9 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 9 new homes in French Lick in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $3.1 million to build. That's 4.9 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Indiana as a whole. Over the past 10 years, French Lick has permitted 101 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, French Lick's population fell by 85 even though 67 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Indiana: 1.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2025 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| 2024 | 15 | 9 | 6 | $2.3 million |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $1.6 million |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $710,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $315,000 |
| 2020 | 8 | 4 | 4 | $995,000 |
| 2019 | 51 | 2 | 49 | $3 million |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $70,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $70,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $517,000 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $517,000 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $517,000 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $517,000 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $689,000 |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $861,000 |
| 2007 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2006 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $1.6 million |
| 2005 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $280,000 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $375,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $131,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $262,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
66% of French Lick households own their home
Half of French Lick’s homes were built before 1959.
Indiana: 71% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
French Lick vs. its neighbors
The towns that share a border with French Lick. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Lick | $85K* | — | $990 | 9 | $54,519 |
| West Baden Springs | $207K | +3.4% | $960 | 0 | $42,857 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.