Crane, Indiana.
Typical home $218,563 (+2.4% in a year). Washington, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$698 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,115 +2%
- $213,448$218,563 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,734 +33%
- $163,829$218,563 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.
- Crane$1,147
- 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 Crane, IN rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crane, Martin County, Indiana
Crane is a town of 166 people in Martin County. Unemployment in Martin County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Martin County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crane is a very small town in Martin County, in the hilly country of southern Indiana. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home, so daily life tends to be tied to jobs held in person. Typical home values sit well below what buyers pay in many parts of the country, while household incomes across Martin County are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in the building trades. Across Martin County, the largest workplaces include USG, which makes wallboard and runs a mine, along with Loogootee Community Schools and Gold Bond Building Products in Shoals. Unemployment across the county is low and slightly lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Most outings from Crane mean a longer drive. Spring Mill State Park and Shakamak State Park are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, and Bluespring Caverns is a tourist attraction built around the underground country of the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, so the outdoor places are easiest to enjoy in the milder seasons.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Martin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 8,141 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crane Nsa weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- USGWall board and mine269
- Loogootee Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district115FTE
- Amentum Services102
- Gold Bond Building Products- ShoalsGypsum building products manufacturing75
- Loughmiller Machine, Tool & DesignMachine shops75
- Shoals Community School CorpSchool district67FTE
- Gypsum ExpressTerminal, full service shop36
- P&S Transportation ShoalsFlatbed trucking, long-distance29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 660 people in all across the county; Crane has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crane’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Martin County and the Washington, IN metro.
Crane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crane$218,563
- 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.
- Crane6
Zip codes with a Crane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.