Markle, Indiana.
Typical home $280,893 (+5.0% in a year). Bluffton, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$868 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,420 +5%
- $267,472$280,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,068 +36%
- $205,825$280,893 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.
- Markle$1,474
- 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 Markle, IN rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Markle, Wells County, Indiana
Markle is a town of 1,071 people in Wells County. Unemployment in Wells County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Markle is a small town in Wells County, Indiana, with a population that stays well under the size of most county seats. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the town sees a fair amount of snow most years. Summers are warm, and precipitation is spread across the year as rain and melted snow. Typical homes here are worth more than the county's lower-income households might expect, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Markle are Wayne Metals and Sortera Technologies. Unemployment in Wells County is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Many people have a commute that takes a good part of the morning or evening, and some work from home.
Things to do. J. Edward Roush Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and the J.E. Roush Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town. The United States Vice Presidential Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 496households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wells County had 11,160 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 26 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntington weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Markle
- Wayne MetalsVault doors and linings, metal, manufacturing150
- Novae104
- Novae62
- Sortera TechnologiesRecyclable materials merchant wholesalers56
- Novae31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 403 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Markle’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 Wells County and the Bluffton, IN metro.
Markle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Markle$280,893
- 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.
- Markle9
Zip codes with a Markle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Markle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.