Harlan, Indiana.
Typical home $300,619 (+6.7% in a year). Fort Wayne, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$913 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,830 +7%
- $281,789$300,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,800 +34%
- $223,820$300,619 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.
- Harlan$1,578
- 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 Harlan, IN rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harlan, Allen County, Indiana
Harlan, in Allen County, had 1,577 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allen 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harlan is a small community in Allen County, Indiana, where homes are priced well above what the county's median household income would suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and relatively few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing highs, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some work from home. Across Allen County, Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne Community Schools and General Motors are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Several places are a longer drive away. The Fort Wayne Children's Zoo suits a day out with grandchildren, and the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is a draw for anyone who likes classic cars. For time outdoors, Chain O'Lakes State Park is a protected area, and the St. Joseph River offers another way to be near water.
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- 526households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in Allen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 199,464 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodburn 3N weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- Parkview HospitalGeneral hospital6,147FTE
- Shambaugh & SonHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors4,223
- Fort Wayne Community SchoolsSchool district4,132FTE
- General MotorsAssembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture4,075
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,574
- Sweetwater Sound Fort WayneMusic stores2,304
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,225
- Lutheran Hospital of IndianaGeneral hospital1,595FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 433 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76,493 people in all across the county; Harlan has two 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Harlan’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 Allen County and the Fort Wayne, IN metro.
Harlan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harlan$300,619
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Harlan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harlan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.