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Housing in Mount Summit

A typical Mount Summit home is worth about $176,000

Up 2.2% in a year, 32% below the Indiana typical home.

Typical home value
$176K
▲ 2.2% in a year · IN $260K
Zillow
Median sale price
$91K
April 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
2
in April
2-bedroom rent
$990
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$725
IN $1,614

Only 2 sales in April 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Mount Summit?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Mount Summit

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$304,000
Typical Mount Summit home $176K

That covers a typical Mount Summit home, with $128K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$970
Loan $870Tax $50Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $20 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mount Summit’s typical property tax (0.34% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

89% of Mount Summit households own their home

Half of Mount Summit’s homes were built before 2002.

Owners and renters
Own 89%Rent 11%

Indiana: 71% own.

2002
typical home built · IN 1976
$725
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.34%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IN 0.74%

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

Price trend

Up 35.3% in five years

Faster than Indiana (28.9%).

Mount SummitIndiana
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryMount SummitIndiana
2017$87,000$135,000
2018$89,000$144,000
2019$95,000$154,000
2020$105,000$164,000
2021$118,000$183,000
2022$134,000$209,000
2023$148,000$227,000
2024$154,000$237,000
2025$165,000$249,000
2026$169,000$256,000
August 2026$176,000$260,000
Then & now

A typical Mount Summit home worth $84K in September 2016 is worth about $176K today.

+$92K
+2.2%
past year
+35.3%
past 5 years
+110%
since 2016

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $990

Renters already here pay a median of $875, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$800
1 bedroom$810
2 bedrooms$990
3 bedrooms$1,190
4 bedrooms$1,310
11%
of households rent · IN 29%
37
renter households
$875
median rent paid today · Census

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

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, April 2026. 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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