Union City, IN Homes for Rent

Union City, Indiana, is a small village of about 4,000 residents that runs along the state border with Ohio, right next to its twin city. Although it was founded 11 years after its sister city of Union City, Ohio, the Indiana portion caught up and eventually outpaced its Ohio counterpart after the expansion of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. “I was born, raised, and grew up on the Ohio side. I stayed in town, but I changed states,” says Mayor Chad Spence with a laugh. The rural community offers a laid-back slice of small-town life with locally owned businesses, quiet streets and involved community members. “They have some manufacturing and some businesses over there. There’s quite a bit offered, and their downtown is really neat,” says Brody Tarter, a broker with Re/Max Evolve who has sold homes in Union City. “Their city’s put a lot of money downtown.” The housing stock mainly consists of existing National, bungalow, foursquare and ranch-style homes built between the early 1900s and the 1980s, although some of the city’s homes date back to the early to mid-1800s. At the same time, the community has seen new residential development in the past few