Vinton Highlands recorded 40 sales in the cited two-year period. Its record is separate from Vinton Woods, Vinton Grove and Vinton Homes, and the range of sizes within it still matters when choosing comparable properties.
The Vinton Highlands record
Between October 2024 and October 2026, 40 homes in Vinton Highlands closed at a median of $227,040. Prices ran from $177,000 to $322,000.
The typical house was 1,195 square feet, and the houses were built between 1965 and 1980. None of the 40 was new construction, which is what a build range ending in 1980 implies.
The neighborhood, as the map prints it
- Closed sales: 40
- Median sale: $227,040
- Range: $177,000 to $322,000
- Typical size: 1,195 square feet
- Built: 1965 to 1980
- New construction: none
- Homes for sale when the map was last read: 6
Why forty sales matters more than the median does
Most neighborhoods on the Lafayette map carry fewer than fifteen sales across the two year window. Forty is in a different category. It means a seller here is not reaching for a comparable sale from another neighborhood or stretching the window back three years to find three of them.
The record is thick enough that an appraiser will find houses of the right size, the right age and the right street inside the same subdivision, which is the difference between a defensible price and an arguable one.
Depth also makes the median more honest. A median built on 40 sales of houses that are mostly the same size is describing a real typical house. A median built on nine sales across a fifty year build range is describing an average of things that have nothing to do with each other.
This is the first kind.
A fifteen year build range is narrow, and it shows
Houses built between 1965 and 1980 at a typical 1,195 square feet are a specific product: single family, modest footprint, built in one era with one set of building practices. The $177,000 to $322,000 span is wide relative to that size, and the sold record shows why. Among the ten most recent sales the map carries, floor areas ran from just over 1,000 square feet to over 2,700.
So the neighborhood does contain larger houses, and they are where the top of the range comes from, but the typical house is small and the pricing conversation has to start from which of the two a particular house is.
Where the six listings sat
Asking prices were $209,000, $210,000, $224,900, $224,900, $225,000 and $280,000, at sizes from 912 to 1,712 square feet, with bedroom counts from two to four. Five of the six were asking below the $227,040 median. A snapshot from the date in the source line below, not a live count.
Read that as competition, not as a verdict. Six listings in a neighborhood that has closed forty sales in two years is a normal amount of inventory rather than a glut. What it tells a seller is specific: in that week a buyer in this neighborhood had five choices under $225,000, so a house coming to market above that number needed a reason, and the reason has to be visible in the house rather than argued in the listing.
Who this suits, and what it is often used for
A 1,195 square foot house built in the 1970s at this price point is where a lot of first purchases and a lot of rental purchases happen, and in a university market those two overlap. For an owner selling a long-held house here, that matters: the buyer pool is broader than a move-up neighborhood's and more sensitive to the payment, so the cost of being priced slightly wrong is measured in weeks on market rather than in a negotiation.
Before listing, compare the home's current condition with the relevant completed sales and available alternatives. Any proposed preparation work should be evaluated for the particular property rather than prescribed from the neighborhood median.
What your house is worth, which of the 40 sales an appraiser would accept, and what the six listings will close at are not answered by a neighborhood on a map. Valuation of a specific property is its own piece of 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 other columns, and the Lafayette page sets out the town.
Source: 1,359 closed sales from the Indiana Regional MLS (via Redfin), Oct 2024 through Oct 2026, single-family, condo and townhome, as carried on the Lafayette neighborhood map, read October 13, 2026 from map data as of October 12, 2026. Neighborhoods need at least five sales to be ranked. Figures are the Vinton Highlands row only; the Vinton Woods, Vinton Grove and Vinton Homes rows are excluded. The homes for sale and their asking prices are the map's own snapshot. No individual sale addresses are used.
This note is general. It is not an appraisal. What a specific house would bring depends on that house.