Does Indiana have rent control?

No — Indiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise.

Does Indiana preempt local rent control ordinances?

Indiana law bars counties, cities, towns and townships from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Indiana?

Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Indiana?

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Indiana landlords must give at least 30 days' written notice before raising rent on a month-to-month tenancy — the default rule of IC 32-31-5-4, which requires 30 days' written notice before 'modifying the rental agreement' unless the written lease itself sets different terms.

Cited to IC 32-31-5-4 and 3 more cited sources · Verified October 2, 2026

That waivability is the catch most summaries omit: a lease clause allowing changes on, say, 14 days' notice displaces the statutory 30 days. The backstop is the termination framework — a month-to-month tenant who declines the new rent is entitled to notice equal to one rental period to leave (IC 32-31-1-4; one month's written notice for a tenancy at will under IC 32-31-1-1) — and a fixed-term lease locks the rent until it expires. There is no limit on how much or how often rent can rise: Indiana has no rent control, counties, cities, towns and townships are expressly forbidden to regulate rental rates (IC 32-31-1-20(b)), and since the 2021 override of the governor's veto of SEA 148, they are also barred from regulating tenant screening, security deposits, lease applications, leasing terms and conditions, disclosures, the rights of the parties to a lease and any fees charged by a landlord (IC 32-31-1-20(c)).

Indiana rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	30 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration. IC 32-31-5-4's 30-day modification notice is expressly a default ('unless otherwise provided by a written rental agreement') and does not let a landlord rewrite an unexpired fixed-term lease. No notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration (IC 32-31-1-8(1)-(2)), so a renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease itself promises.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise. IC 32-31-1-20(b) provides that a unit 'may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly.' Subsection (a) carves out only property receiving government funds allocated expressly for reduced rents to low- or moderate-income tenants (subject to IC 36-1-3-8.5).
Local rent regulation	Indiana law bars counties, cities, towns and townships from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

30 days is a real statute, not a derived figure — The figure comes straight from IC 32-31-5-4, unchanged since P.L.2-2002 — a notice rule of its own, not a figure derived from the termination-notice periods.
Two caveats ride with the 30-day figure — It is a default — a written lease can override it — and chapter 5 applies only to rental agreements entered into or renewed after June 30, 1999. Outside a written override, waiver of the chapter is void (IC 32-31-5-1).
Stale-source trap: 'no notice statute' charts are out of date — Older 50-state charts say Indiana has no rent-increase notice statute. That has been wrong since at least the 2002 recodification.
How the preemption got here: a vetoed bill, overridden — The bar on local regulation of rental rates in IC 32-31-1-20(b) predates 2020: the section was carried into the 2002 recodification from former IC 32-7-1-19 and was amended in 2017. Senate Enrolled Act 148 of 2020 left subsection (b) as it was and added subsection (c), which forbids local regulation of tenant screening, security deposits, lease applications, leasing terms and conditions, disclosures, the rights of the parties to a lease and any fees charged by a landlord, and declares violating ordinances 'void and unenforceable.' The governor vetoed the act on March 25, 2020; the General Assembly overrode the veto in the Senate on February 8, 2021 (Roll Call 64: 30-17) and in the House on February 17, 2021 (Roll Call 159: 67-33), and it is cited as P.L.168-2020.
The current text carries a post-override cleanup — The current subsection (c) contains all seven enumerated items and the void-and-unenforceable clause. The official history line also shows a later amendment by P.L.215-2021, SEC.1 (post-override cleanup year), which the current text already reflects.
HEA 1001-2026 changes nothing here — The 2026 law (signed March 2026) limits local zoning and permitting powers but touches no landlord-tenant field.

Common questions: Indiana rent increase notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Indiana?: 30 days.
Does Indiana have rent control?: No — Indiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise.
Does Indiana preempt local rent control ordinances?: Indiana law bars counties, cities, towns and townships from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Indiana?: Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Indiana?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

IC 32-31-5-4 (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-1-20 · (b)-(c) (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-1-1; IC 32-31-1-2; IC 32-31-1-4 (verified 2026) Official source
Senate Enrolled Act 148 of 2020 (P.L.168-2020; vetoed March 25, 2020, veto overridden February 17, 2021) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Every section these answers rest on was read on October 2, 2026 in the Indiana General Assembly's own publication of the Indiana Code at iga.in.gov (the 2026 edition, published June 30, 2026, which carries the acts of the 2026 session in each section's history line): IC 32-31-1 (termination notices, the ten-day notice for unpaid rent and its optional form, and the bar on local regulation in IC 32-31-1-20), IC 32-31-2.9 (the tenancies the residential statutes do not reach), IC 32-31-3 (security deposits, read whole), IC 32-31-4 to 32-31-7 (a tenant's property, the entry and lockout rules of IC 32-31-5-6, the 30-day notice of IC 32-31-5-4, emergency possessory orders, tenant duties), IC 32-31-10 to 32-31-12, IC 32-30-2 and 32-30-3 (actions for possession and the order of possession), IC 33-29-2-4, 33-34-3-3 and 33-34-3-15.1 (the courts), IC 36-1-2-23 (what a unit of local government is), IC 24-7-5-5 and IC 16-41-27 (mobile home communities). No 2026 public law amended IC 32-31, IC 32-30-2 or IC 32-30-3, and the 2025 and 2026 editions of those chapters are identical. Senate Enrolled Act 148 of 2020 was read as enrolled, with the General Assembly's roll calls on the veto override (Senate, February 8, 2021; House, February 17, 2021) and its record of the Governor's veto on March 25, 2020. Small Claims Rules 2 and 4 and Appellate Rule 9 were read on the Indiana courts' rules site, each with its effective date, and Gershin v. Demming, 685 N.E.2d 1125 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997), in the reporter. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — IC 32-31-11-3 on iga.in.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded.