Linden, Indiana.
Typical home $185,675 (+4.4% in a year). Crawfordsville, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$568 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,801 +4%
- $177,874$185,675 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,070 +36%
- $136,605$185,675 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.
- Linden$975
- 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 Linden, IN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linden, Montgomery County, Indiana
Linden is a town of 711 people in Montgomery County. Half its households earn more than $67,981 a year and half less, against $71,479 across Montgomery County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linden is a very small Indiana town in Montgomery County, home to far fewer people than most places you would think of as a town. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a fair amount of snow falls each year, while July is warm and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Montgomery County, some of the biggest employers are Nucor Steel, Walmart and Crawfordsville Community Schools. Relatively few adults here hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people head out to a job each day on a commute of moderate length.
Things to do. Linden Depot, a museum in or beside town, is the closest stop. A longer drive brings you to the Tippecanoe River, good for time by the water, and to Ross–Ade Stadium, a large stadium. Fort Ouiatenon, a historic fort, is also a longer drive away.
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- 275households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 15,984 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 20 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette South weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Nucor SteelSheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills836
- United StatesManufacture of light fixtures732
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Crawfordsville Community SchoolsSchool district353FTE
- Wabash CollegeUniversity or college315
- BanjoValves, inline plumbing and heating, manufacturing288
- North Montgomery Com Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district287FTE
- Closure Systems International, Inc. (aka - CVM)Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,010 people in all across the county; Linden has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Linden’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 Montgomery County and the Crawfordsville, IN metro.
Linden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linden$185,675
- 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 Linden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.