Wingate, Indiana.
Typical home $220,632 (+3.5% in a year). Crawfordsville, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$160 (+16%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $7,500 +4%
- $213,132$220,632 since Sep 2025
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.
- Wingate$1,158
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wingate, IN rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wingate, Montgomery County, Indiana
Wingate is a town of 237 people in Montgomery County. 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 people in Montgomery County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wingate is a very small town in Montgomery County, Indiana, where people tend to know their neighbors and life moves at an unhurried pace. Typical home values are on the modest side, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Most residents who hold jobs work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Montgomery County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel, Walmart and Crawfordsville Community Schools. Commutes are long compared with much of the country, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has been low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Linden Depot and the Midtown Museum of Native Cultures, both museums, are a short drive away. For time outdoors, Turkey Run State Park and Shades State Park are protected natural areas, and the Tippecanoe River is a river, each a longer drive away. Williamsport Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Montgomery County 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 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Attica 2E weather station, 10 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; Wingate 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 Wingate’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.
Wingate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wingate$220,632
- 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 Wingate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wingate — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.