Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 26900 · 39.79, -86.12
3 findings fired for Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN this run, against a typical home value of $291,634 in September 2026 and covered employment of 1,091,797 in 2026 Q1.
- 92nd pct · 31st of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 46th pct · 205th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 53rd pct · 179th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 39th pct · 228th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 33rd pct · 252nd of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 48,100 | $42,620 | 2.29 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 28,840 | $35,520 | 1.04 |
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 28,400 | $29,780 | 1.04 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 25,800 | $89,630 | 1.07 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 25,630 | $38,760 | 1.27 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 20,590 | $35,050 | 0.67 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 20,480 | $63,160 | 1.40 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 20,090 | $31,340 | 0.92 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 18,280 | $47,160 | 1.04 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 17,830 | $46,270 | 0.97 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 17,510 | $145,860 | 0.70 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 17,240 | $37,070 | 1.10 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 15,830 | $32,300 | 0.98 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 11,210 | $86,920 | 1.09 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 10,670 | $53,110 | 0.98 |
| 51-2090 | Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators | 10,670 | $44,400 | 1.07 |
| 41-4012 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 10,320 | $82,380 | 1.17 |
| 43-5071 | Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | 10,280 | $49,830 | 1.77 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 10,000 | $51,000 | 1.02 |
| 33-9032 | Security Guards | 9,910 | $40,650 | 1.09 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 9,870 | $76,280 | 1.11 |
| 47-2061 | Construction Laborers | 9,840 | $54,420 | 1.26 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 9,730 | $40,910 | 0.94 |
| 53-7051 | Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators | 9,540 | $47,620 | 1.73 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 9,180 | $35,550 | 0.92 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 8,670 | $75,990 | 0.85 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 8,630 | $34,830 | 0.86 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 8,610 | $62,940 | 0.87 |
| 43-6013 | Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 8,260 | $45,400 | 1.21 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 8,010 | $47,300 | 0.92 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 142,400 | $48,520 | 1.46 |
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 124,690 | $50,510 | 0.99 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 96,500 | $53,580 | 1.01 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 90,820 | $32,960 | 0.93 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 80,020 | $113,090 | 1.15 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 68,490 | $86,440 | 0.91 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 68,400 | $133,530 | 0.86 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 65,770 | $50,920 | 1.08 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 49,790 | $61,870 | 0.77 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 49,080 | $67,070 | 1.07 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 46,470 | $41,200 | 0.83 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 42,210 | $61,950 | 0.98 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 31,490 | $39,380 | 0.97 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 31,380 | $98,080 | 0.84 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 27,140 | $56,080 | 1.01 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 20,740 | $36,310 | 0.90 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 18,010 | $56,890 | 0.95 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 16,630 | $95,850 | 0.89 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 13,890 | $63,810 | 0.96 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 12,040 | $80,580 | 1.15 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 8,650 | not published | 0.93 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 560 | $48,300 | 0.18 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Indianapolis, IN metro was worth $291,634 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,528 in September 2026.
Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 1,091,797 covered jobs across the 11 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 11 of 11 member counties BLS publishes.
- 1,091,797 = 49,325 + 3,011 + 171,238 + 30,783 + 82,327 + 66,545 + 39,851 + 609,963 + 15,697 + 18,532 + 4,525
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Boone County, IN | 18011 |
| Brown County, IN | 18013 |
| Hamilton County, IN | 18057 |
| Hancock County, IN | 18059 |
| Hendricks County, IN | 18063 |
| Johnson County, IN | 18081 |
| Madison County, IN | 18095 |
| Marion County, IN | 18097 |
| Morgan County, IN | 18109 |
| Shelby County, IN | 18145 |
| Tipton County, IN | 18159 |
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN: 3 findings, 3 noted
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Indianapolis, IN brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.