Marengo, Indiana.
Typical home $169,233 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$528 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,265 +1%
- $166,968$169,233 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,685 +33%
- $127,548$169,233 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.
- Marengo$888
- 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 Marengo, IN rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana
Marengo is a town of 829 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $43,654 a year and half less, against $49,640 across Crawford County. Unemployment in Crawford County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crawford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marengo is a very small town in Crawford County, Indiana, where most people know their neighbors by name. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers turn properly warm by August, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities also common. Across Crawford County, the largest workplaces include the Crawford County Community Schools and Kroger Louisville KMA. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Marengo Cave, a tourist attraction in or beside town, is the nearest and best-known place to visit. A longer drive brings you to Wyandotte Caves, another cave attraction, and to Hoosier National Forest, a large protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Crawford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 1,956 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the English weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Precision Vehicle Solutions - FlintCar pools, arrangement of999
- Crawford County Community Sch Corp SchoolsSchool district173FTE
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,035 people in all across the county; Marengo has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marengo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Crawford County.
Marengo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marengo$169,233
- 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.
- Marengo9
Zip codes with a Marengo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marengo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.