Sterling Heights and Hedgewood had the same recorded sale count and no available listings in the cited snapshot. Each neighborhood's housing and price range still require their own analysis; the shared count does not make the homes interchangeable.
The two separate sale records
From October 2024 through October 2026, Sterling Heights recorded 20 closed sales at a median of $272,750, from $220,000 to $311,550, typical house 1,490 square feet, built 1998 to 2009. Over the same window Hedgewood recorded 20 closed sales at a median of $210,000, from $154,000 to $348,000, typical house 1,424 square feet, built 1952 to 1960.
Neither neighborhood had new construction or a condo or townhome sale, and the snapshot shows nothing for sale in either one.
Sterling Heights, as the map carries it
- Closed sales: 20 of the 1,359 in the 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods
- Median sale: $272,750
- Range: $220,000 to $311,550
- Typical size: 1,490 square feet
- Built: 1998 to 2009
- New construction among the sales: none
- Condo or townhome sales: none
- Homes for sale in the snapshot: none
The whole two year record fits inside a band of $91,550, on 20 sales, in a neighborhood where the houses were built across eleven years. That is a narrow band. The ten most recent sales the map carries ran from $225,000 to $290,000 at a median of $275,000, which sits almost exactly on the two year median, and those ten span August 2025 through June 2026 with five of them closing in 2026.
Ten of 20 is what the map holds, so that is a description of those ten and not a trend line.
Where the variation does show up is size. Those same ten ran from 1,110 to 2,244 square feet. So a house twice the floor area of another one sold inside a $65,000 band. In a neighborhood like this the median is a fair starting point, and what moves a price off it is condition rather than square footage.
Most owners here expect it to work the other way around.
Hedgewood, as the map carries it
- Closed sales: 20 of the 1,359 in the 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods
- Median sale: $210,000
- Range: $154,000 to $348,000
- Typical size: 1,424 square feet
- Built: 1952 to 1960
- New construction among the sales: none
- Condo or townhome sales: none
- Homes for sale in the snapshot: none
Here the band is $194,000 wide, on the same count of 20 sales, which is more than twice the spread of the other neighborhood and the thing worth understanding before anyone prices a house here. All ten of the most recent sales the map carries closed in 2026, between March and September, at a median of $215,000 and a range of $173,000 to $348,000, and their sizes ran from 864 to 2,605 square feet. That is a three fold difference in floor area inside a nine year build window.
Hedgewood is one of only nine of the 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods where the newest house in the sold record was finished by 1965. In a neighborhood of that age the sold record is not describing one kind of house. It is describing a small original house, a larger original house, and whatever has been done to either of them in sixty-some years.
A median across all of that is a midpoint, not a value.
What the empty for-sale column actually means
Nothing listed in either neighborhood reads like a finding, and it mostly is not one. Across the 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods, 43 had no home listed for sale in the snapshot. So an empty column is the common case, and it is a statement about one moment rather than about demand.
What it does mean, practically, is that an owner in either of these neighborhoods has no local asking price to argue with, which cuts both ways: no competition sitting on the market, and no recent evidence of what a buyer will look past.
For the owner thinking about selling in either one
In Sterling Heights, with a tight band and 20 tested sales, the question is which of those sales your house resembles on condition, because the price range is not going to be settled by size. In Hedgewood, where the spread is wide and the houses are seventy years old, the useful comparable is narrower than a neighborhood: it is a house of about your size that has had about as much done to it. With 20 sales there are usually enough of those to work with, which many neighborhoods on this map do not have.
A home built in the 1950s and one built in 2005 can need different changes to serve its current household. Review the actual layout and proposed work before deciding whether to renovate or sell.
What the map does not tell you
The map does not record how many floors a house has, where the primary bedroom sits, what has been updated, what a lot backs to, or what an association covers. Neither does this note. If one of those is the reason you are moving, or the reason a buyer will pay more for your house than for the one down the street, that gets checked house by house, from the listing and the plan, before we tour.
What your house would bring, which sales an appraiser would accept, and what a specific improvement would return are not answered by a neighborhood on a map. Valuation of a specific property is its own work, and a lender's appraisal belongs to the appraiser.
The Lafayette neighborhood map carries every neighborhood and column behind this note, how to read that map explains the columns, the Lafayette page covers the town, and stay, change or move is where the layout question goes.
Source: 1,359 closed sales from the Indiana Regional MLS (via Redfin) across the 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods, October 2024 through October 2026, single-family, condo and townhome, as carried on the Lafayette neighborhood map, read October 15, 2026 from map data as of October 12, 2026, with the homes for sale re-read November 3, 2026 from the map as of November 2, 2026. Neighborhoods need at least five sales to be ranked. The homes for sale are the map's own snapshot. No individual sale addresses are used.
This note is general. It is not an appraisal, and an asking price is not a sale.