A typical Orleans home is worth roughly $130,000
Home prices around Orleans have risen about 41% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Orleans?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Home prices up 41% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Orleans rose 41% over the past 5 years, slower than across Indiana (53%). Last year prices fell 13%. Carrying the Census median home value forward with that index puts the typical Orleans home at roughly $130,000 today.
Carrying the Census median forward with the index puts a typical home at about $130K.
How Orleans ranks on rising home prices →
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Orleans, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A typical home costs 2 years of income
Less than across Indiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Orleans home, with $137K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $220 more than owning.
How Orleans ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Orleans’s typical property tax (0.53% 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 $960
Renters already here pay a median of $850, 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 (Washington County, IN HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Orleans in 2025. That's 0.4 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Indiana (6). Over the past 10 years, Orleans has permitted 11 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Orleans's population fell by 34 even though 11 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) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $267,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $267,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $267,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $230,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $110,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $85,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $94,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $94,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $77,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $274,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $79,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $87,000 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $246,000 |
| 2009 | 19 | 3 | 16 | $1.8 million |
| 2008 | 26 | 2 | 24 | $1.9 million |
| 2007 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $261,000 |
| 2006 | 29 | 1 | 28 | $1.9 million |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $280,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
Orleans's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Orleans’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Orleans’s homes were built before 1965.
Indiana: 71% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
On the market in Orleans
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Orleans buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.