Converse, Indiana.
Typical home $176,848 (+4.0% in a year). Marion, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$530 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,755 +4%
- $170,093$176,848 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,283 +32%
- $133,565$176,848 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Converse$928
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Converse, IN rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Converse, Grant County, Indiana
Converse is a town of 1,161 people in Grant County. Unemployment in Grant County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Converse is a small town in Grant County, Indiana, with a population that has stayed modest. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and adults with a four-year degree are less common than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the town sees a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Grant County, some of the largest workplaces are Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, the Veterans Health Administration and General Motors Marion Stamping. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Greentown Glass Museum is a museum within a short drive. A longer drive brings you to the International Circus Hall of Fame, a museum, and to Salamonie River State Forest, a protected area with the Salamonie River running nearby. For an evening out, the Honeywell Center is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 27,713 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion North weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Indiana Wesleyan University-MarionUniversity or college1,796
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,143
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs900
- Cafe ValleyCommercial bakeries773
- General Motors Marion StampingMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing757
- Marion General HospitalGeneral hospital699FTE
- MarionGeneral warehousing and storage690
- Marion Community SchoolsSchool district570FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,267 people in all across the county; Converse has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Converse’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Grant County and the Marion, IN metro.
Converse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Converse$176,848
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Converse8
Zip codes with a Converse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Converse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.