Van Buren, Indiana.
Typical home $158,600 (+3.3% in a year). Marion, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$480 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,042 +3%
- $153,558$158,600 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,417 +30%
- $122,183$158,600 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.
- Van Buren$832
- 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 Van Buren, IN rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Van Buren, Grant County, Indiana
Van Buren is a town of 790 people in Grant County. Half its households earn more than $47,692 a year and half less, against $53,522 across Grant County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Grant County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Van Buren is a very small town in Grant County, Indiana, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with snow most years and a warm, rainy summer.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. The commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home. Across Grant County, some of the largest workplaces are Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, Marion General Hospital and General Motors Marion Stamping.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Ouabache State Park is a protected area, and J. Edward Roush Lake is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Minnetrista, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away, and makes a quieter outing.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 27,713 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Indiana Wesleyan University-MarionUniversity or college1,796
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,143
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs900
- Cafe ValleyCommercial bakeries773
- General Motors Marion StampingMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing757
- Marion General HospitalGeneral hospital699FTE
- MarionGeneral warehousing and storage690
- Marion Community SchoolsSchool district570FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,267 people in all across the county; Van Buren has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Van Buren’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 Grant County and the Marion, IN metro.
Van Buren home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Van Buren$158,600
- 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.
- Van Buren6
Zip codes with a Van Buren address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Van Buren — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.