Loogootee, Indiana.
Typical home $245,147 (+4.7% in a year). Washington, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$739 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,900 +5%
- $234,247$245,147 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,670 +31%
- $187,477$245,147 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.
- Loogootee$1,287
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Loogootee, IN rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Loogootee, Martin County, Indiana
Loogootee is a city of 2,601 people in Martin County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Martin County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Loogootee is a small city in Martin County, Indiana, where residents tend to be older than in much of the country and most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are well above what the county's household incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Martin County, the largest workplaces include USG, which runs a wallboard plant and mine, the Loogootee Community Schools district, and Gold Bond Building Products in Shoals. Unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped a little. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel a moderate distance to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Martin State Forest is the closest, a protected area a short drive away that suits a walk or a quiet afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Hoosier National Forest, a large protected area, and Spring Mill State Park, another protected area. Bluespring Caverns, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,322households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 8,141 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shoals South weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- USGWall board and mine269
- Loogootee Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district115FTE
- Amentum Services102
- Gold Bond Building Products- ShoalsGypsum building products manufacturing75
- Loughmiller Machine, Tool & DesignMachine shops75
- Shoals Community School CorpSchool district67FTE
- Gypsum ExpressTerminal, full service shop36
- P&S Transportation ShoalsFlatbed trucking, long-distance29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 660 people in all across the county; Loogootee 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Loogootee’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 Martin County and the Washington, IN metro.
Loogootee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Loogootee$245,147
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Loogootee 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.
- Loogootee20.47%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Loogootee24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Loogootee7
Zip codes with a Loogootee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Loogootee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.