Home Business in Indiana (2026)

Clark County zones home-based businesses as Home Occupation, Special Use 31, meaning a resident needs Board of Zoning…

In unincorporated Allen County a qualifying home occupation is a permitted accessory use, so no special standalone…

Anderson allows a home occupation that is incidental to residential use, conducted only by resident family members, and…

Carmel home occupations must use no more than 15% of the dwelling's floor area, employ no more than one non-family…

Evansville, Indiana caps home businesses to a closed list of office and service professions across its A, R-1, R-2…

Indianapolis allows home occupations as an accessory use in residential dwelling districts so long as the dwelling…

Unincorporated Lake County allows two home-occupation types under UDO 154-9-090: suburban (permitted by right, in the…

Under § 150.05's definition of HOME OCCUPATION OR PROFESSIONAL OFFICE, only family members living on the premises may…

Every home-based business in Porter County needs a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and must be run by a resident from…

Running a business from a house in unincorporated St. Joseph County is allowed as a home occupation, but the zoning…

Tippecanoe County allows home occupations by right in most zones under UZO § 5-5-2, but only if the operator lives on…

In Vanderburgh County's R-1 Residential district, a home occupation is only a lawful accessory use if it stays inside…

A home occupation in Indianapolis may have no display of goods or external evidence of the business other than a single…

St. Joseph County bars home occupations from using any exterior sign or display that identifies the property as…

A Porter County home occupation may display just one non-illuminated sign, capped at two square feet, mounted on the…

A home occupation in unincorporated Allen County may not display external evidence of the business, but a single…

A home occupation in Anderson may have no exterior sign except one approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals. A permitted…

A Carmel home occupation may not display any sign other than those normally permitted in its zoning district, and the…

Evansville, Indiana caps home-occupation signage at two square feet, flush-mounted to the residence and limited to the…

Lake County's suburban home occupation rules bar any external change that alters the residential character of the lot…

A home occupation or professional office in unincorporated LaPorte County may display only one sign, and that sign…

A home occupation in unincorporated Vanderburgh County may display only one sign, capped at two square feet, showing…

A home occupation or rural home occupation sign in unincorporated Tippecanoe County needs no sign permit in the…

A home occupation in Indianapolis may not regularly attract more than 4 individuals onto the premises simultaneously…

Standard (4) of § 150.05 caps a home occupation's client and delivery traffic at no more than what a normal residential…

A home occupation in unincorporated St. Joseph County can serve no more than two customers on the premises at once…

Tippecanoe County caps in-home instruction and counseling businesses at small group sizes: 4 pupils per class or 5…

Porter County's home occupation rule bars any home-based business from generating more vehicle traffic than would…

Indiana's cottage food scheme is Ind. Code § 16-42-5.3, the home based vendor chapter added by P.L.49-2022. Section…

Anderson has no separate cottage-food ordinance. Home food sales in Anderson follow Indiana's Home Based Vendor law (IC…

Carmel has no separate cottage-food ordinance; home bakers follow Indiana's Home Based Vendor law, IC 16-42-5.3. Only…

Indianapolis's Zoning Ordinance lists 'home based food production or brewing of alcoholic beverages for sale' as a use…

Indiana lets home based vendors sell non-hazardous homemade foods without a license under IC 16-42-5.3, exempt from…

Indiana's Home Based Vendor law lets you sell non-potentially-hazardous homemade foods, like baked goods and jams…

Hamilton County's food-establishment permit law does not reach cottage food producers. Section 16-20-8-1 excludes an…

Indiana's Home Based Vendor Law lets you make and sell approved non-hazardous foods from a St. Joseph County home with…

Indiana never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is no license to apply for and no inspection to…

Indiana law under IC 12-17.2-5 establishes statewide licensing for family child care homes serving more than five…

In-home child care in Carmel is licensed by Indiana FSSA, not the city. A licensed Class I child care home may serve up…

Clark County's zoning code classifies an in-home daycare serving six or more unrelated children as a Child Care Home…

Running a home preschool or adult day care in Evansville for up to 12 people requires special use approval from the…

Vanderburgh County only allows a resident-run preschool or adult day care in a home through a Board of Zoning Appeals…

In-home child care in Allen County is licensed by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA), not the…

Anderson has no separate home-daycare ordinance. In-home child care follows Indiana law under FSSA (IC 12-17.2): a…

Indianapolis zoning lets a family child care operation run inside a home only as an accessory use, never as a home…

Indiana licenses family child care homes through FSSA under 470 IAC 3: a Class I home serves up to 12 children and a…

In unincorporated Tippecanoe County, a household caring for 6 to 10 children is a licensed 'Child Care Home,' its own…

St. Joseph County lets a licensed child care home operate as a permitted primary use in both the agricultural and…