West Lafayette, IN Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around West Lafayette, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what West Lafayette sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 169
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $395,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $182
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $310,000 and $520,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 169 closed sales in West Lafayette over the last six months, with a median closing price of $395,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $310,000 and $520,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 88% of the West Lafayette closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 169 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $148 and $218 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in West Lafayette, IN (October 2026)

The median home price in West Lafayette is $395,000, measured across the 169 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $310,000 and $520,000.

Where West Lafayette sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in West Lafayette over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $310,000 and $520,000. Among the 56 Indiana markets with a published band, West Lafayette's middle-half spread ($310,000 to $520,000) ranks 34th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 50th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 15 days, across 102 West Lafayette closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 104 West Lafayette closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 169 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The West Lafayette angle

Because band width is about typical for the markets we track, $395,000 does honest work as an orientation point. It will not price a property, but it will tell you quickly whether an estimate has drifted somewhere the closed-sale record does not support. The band leans high: the stretch from $395,000 to $520,000 is longer than the stretch from $310,000 to $395,000. When you are working above the midpoint, the sales you match against are spread across more price territory, so a given amount of mismatch in size or condition translates into a larger difference in price. Tighten the filter there rather than widening the price range.

West Lafayette market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for West Lafayette ZIP codes: 47906.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any West Lafayette address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: West Lafayette, IN
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1882862
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 169
Median sold price: $395,000
Median sold $/sqft: $182 (169 qualifying)
Property mix: 88% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in West Lafayette over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.