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Home appreciation in Lafayette, IN

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Lafayette, IN grew an average of 10.3% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.3%

2025 over 2024. Indiana: +5.2%.

5-year, per year

+10.3%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Indiana: +9.4%.

10-year, per year

+7.7%

+109.2% in total since 2015. Indiana: +7.2%.

How does your home compare?

Lafayette, IN home prices rose 109.2% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +92.9% to +139.9%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Lafayette, IN compares with Indiana

Indiana averaged +9.4% a year, so Lafayette, IN grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Lafayette, IN ranks 86th out of 409 metros nationwide and 2nd out of 13 in Indiana.

Index, 2005 = 100

Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN and Indiana, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearLafayette-West Lafayette, INIndiana
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2100101
2005 Q3100102
2005 Q4102103
2006 Q1100103
2006 Q2100102
2006 Q3101103
2006 Q4101104
2007 Q1102104
2007 Q2100105
2007 Q3101104
2007 Q4101104
2008 Q1102105
2008 Q2101104
2008 Q3100103
2008 Q4100103
2009 Q1101104
2009 Q2102103
2009 Q3101101
2009 Q4101101
2010 Q110099
2010 Q299100
2010 Q3100101
2010 Q4101101
2011 Q19898
2011 Q29898
2011 Q39999
2011 Q49999
2012 Q19998
2012 Q29998
2012 Q310099
2012 Q410099
2013 Q110099
2013 Q210099
2013 Q3101100
2013 Q4101100
2014 Q1101100
2014 Q2102101
2014 Q3102102
2014 Q4103103
2015 Q1106104
2015 Q2108105
2015 Q3107106
2015 Q4109106
2016 Q1109106
2016 Q2109108
2016 Q3110110
2016 Q4113111
2017 Q1112111
2017 Q2117113
2017 Q3118115
2017 Q4119116
2018 Q1118118
2018 Q2123120
2018 Q3124122
2018 Q4126123
2019 Q1127124
2019 Q2130127
2019 Q3131129
2019 Q4134130
2020 Q1134132
2020 Q2136133
2020 Q3139136
2020 Q4142139
2021 Q1145142
2021 Q2154150
2021 Q3163158
2021 Q4167163
2022 Q1171168
2022 Q2183178
2022 Q3185182
2022 Q4185181
2023 Q1185182
2023 Q2197190
2023 Q3198192
2023 Q4203193
2024 Q1205195
2024 Q2214201
2024 Q3215204
2024 Q4218205
2025 Q1221207
2025 Q2223211
2025 Q3226213
2025 Q4228215
2026 Q1231217
2026 Q2232221

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.7% a year over ten years, +109.2% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 2.9% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +15.0%, and the weakest was 2011 at -1.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.3%, against +5.2% for the state.

ZIP codes in Lafayette, IN

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +92.9% in 47906 to +139.9% in 47904, while the metro as a whole rose 109.2%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 47904+139.9%
  2. 47944+114.9%
  3. 47909+101.4%
  4. 46913+101.3%
  5. 47905+101.1%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 47906+92.9%
  2. 47993+94.9%
  3. 46923+95.5%
  4. 47920+96.2%
  5. 46929+96.7%
ZIP codes in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
47904+8.1%+12.0%+9.1%+139.9%
47944+11.3%+10.3%+8.0%+114.9%
47909+1.5%+9.3%+7.3%+101.4%
46913-12.6%+9.3%+7.2%+101.3%
47905+2.9%+9.6%+7.2%+101.1%
46929+4.2%+8.7%+7.0%+96.7%
47920-0.3%+9.7%+7.0%+96.2%
46923+8.4%+10.4%+6.9%+95.5%
47993+4.8%+8.5%+6.9%+94.9%
47906+0.9%+8.9%+6.8%+92.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN and Indiana, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006100.1+0.1%101.5
2007100.7+0.5%103.0
2008100.5-0.2%102.3
2009100.9+0.4%100.7
201099.7-1.2%98.7
201198.0-1.7%97.1
201299.0+1.0%97.3
2013100.1+1.2%98.2
2014101.5+1.4%100.0
2015106.9+5.3%103.8
2016110.0+2.9%107.3
2017115.8+5.3%111.9
2018122.6+5.8%119.0
2019130.1+6.2%125.7
2020137.2+5.5%133.1
2021156.7+14.1%151.2
2022180.2+15.0%174.6
2023194.9+8.2%186.7
2024212.3+8.9%198.3
2025223.6+5.3%208.6

The 13 measured metros in Indiana

Measured metros in Indiana ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Fort Wayne, IN+4.5%+10.8%+8.3%
2Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN+5.3%+10.3%+7.7%
3Michigan City-La Porte, IN+8.6%+10.3%+7.5%
4Kokomo, IN+6.5%+10.1%+7.4%
5Muncie, IN+6.6%+10.0%+7.2%
6South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI+4.9%+10.0%+7.7%
7Terre Haute, IN+7.6%+9.6%+6.6%
8Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN+4.8%+9.3%+7.6%
9Elkhart-Goshen, IN+5.1%+9.2%+7.4%
10Columbus, IN+4.2%+8.7%+6.5%
11Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County, IN (metropolitan division)+4.3%+8.5%+6.4%
12Bloomington, IN+4.0%+8.3%+6.9%
13Evansville, IN+5.1%+8.3%+6.1%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Indiana row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2