Dugger, Indiana.
Typical home $139,032 (+2.6% in a year). Terre Haute, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$428 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,464 +3%
- $135,568$139,032 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,265 +38%
- $100,767$139,032 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.
- Dugger$730
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Dugger, IN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dugger, Sullivan County, Indiana
Dugger is a town of 797 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $60,688 a year and half less, against $56,204 across Sullivan County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dugger is a very small town in Sullivan County, Indiana, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run a little higher than across the county as a whole, and the typical home is modest in value. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frost and snow common, while summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is less common here than in much of the country. Across Sullivan County, some of the largest workplaces are Sullivan County Community Hospital, Southwest School and Raybestos Powertrain.
Things to do. Shakamak State Park and the Greene–Sullivan State Forest are both a short drive away, offering protected woodland and open country for walking and time outdoors. The Sherman Building, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Swope Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 5,632 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shakamak Sp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Sullivan County Community HospitalCritical access hospital374FTE
- Southwest School CorporationSchool district241FTE
- Raybestos PowertrainPersonal goods, metal, manufacturing159
- Consolidated Asset Management Services, (Indiana)Electric power generation, fossil fuel140
- WalmartDiscount department stores110
- Dugger Union Community School CorpSchool district94FTE
- Waters of SllivanSkilled nursing facilities68
- Northeast School CorpSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 677 people in all across the county; Dugger has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dugger’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 Sullivan County and the Terre Haute, IN metro.
Dugger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dugger$139,032
- 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.
- Dugger7
Zip codes with a Dugger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dugger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.