Culver, Indiana.
Typical home $355,926 (+6.2% in a year). Plymouth, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,169 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,673 +6%
- $335,253$355,926 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,272 +41%
- $252,654$355,926 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.
- Culver$1,868
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Culver, IN rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Culver, Marshall County, Indiana
Culver is a town of 1,129 people in Marshall County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Culver is a very small town, set on the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee in northern Indiana. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values here sit well above what many people expect for a small Midwestern town. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are warm and July is the hottest stretch of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Across Marshall County, some of the largest workplaces are Southwire, which rolls and draws copper, Hoosier Racing Tire, and Nishikawa Cooper, a maker of rubber goods. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Maxinkuckee is in or beside town, and it is the natural center of local life for swimming, boating and walks along the water. A longer drive away are Tippecanoe River State Park, a protected area of woods and river, and Lake Manitou, another lake. Vurpillat's Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away for an evening out.
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- 624households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 19,640 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 55 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- SouthwireCopper rolling, drawing, extruding, and alloying691
- Hoosier Racing TireTires manufacturing454
- Nishikawa CooperMechanical rubber goods manufacturing340
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Digger Specialties Inc IN-PlantRailings, metal, manufacturing270
- HanwhaAxle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing270
- Cabinetworks GroupCabinets, wood built-in, constructed on site243
- Plymouth Community School CorpSchool district240FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,022 people in all across the county; Culver has two 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Culver’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 Marshall County and the Plymouth, IN metro.
Culver home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Culver$355,926
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Culver listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Culver17.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Culver27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Culver9
Zip codes with a Culver address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Culver — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.