Dana, Indiana.
Typical home $129,180 (-2.3% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$368 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,990 -2%
- $132,170$129,180 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,754 +23%
- $105,427$129,180 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.
- Dana$678
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Dana, IN fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dana, Vermillion County, Indiana
Dana is a town of 555 people in Vermillion County. Half its households earn more than $52,791 a year and half less, against $60,200 across Vermillion County. Unemployment in Vermillion County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vermillion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dana is a very small town in Vermillion County, Indiana, where most people know one another by name. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Vermillion County, some of the largest workplaces are Elanco Clinton, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, the South Vermillion school district, and International Paper, which makes kraft liner board. Few residents have a four-year degree, almost none work from home, and the typical commute is long.
Things to do. The Little Vermilion River is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out by the water. Farther afield, Turkey Run State Park and Shades State Park are both protected areas reached by a longer drive. Fischer Theater is also a longer drive away for an evening out.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 36 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Vermillion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermillion County had 4,527 jobs in 2025, 5.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 13 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rockville weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermillion County
- Elanco ClintonPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing507
- South Vermillion Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- International PaperKraft liner board manufacturing181
- WalmartDiscount department stores128
- North Vermillion Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- Union Hospital ClintonCritical access hospital115FTE
- Magnolia Health Management XXVIINursing homes108
- Duke EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation94
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,212 people in all across the county; Dana has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dana’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 Vermillion County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Dana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dana$129,180
- 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.
Zip codes with a Dana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.