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The median home value in Fort Wayne, IN is $249,481 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.72% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$249,481
Year-over-Year
+2.72%
Population
271,892
Fort Wayne ranks #49 of 87 Indiana cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 7.4% below the state's city median of $269,376. It sits in Allen County, where the county-wide median is $258,784.
Median household income in Fort Wayne is $61,422, so the typical home value is about 4.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Fort Wayne police recorded a violent crime rate of 308 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,224 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Fort Wayne, that value is $249,481. That's up 2.72% from a year earlier. It is about 7.4% below the typical Indiana city tracked here.
Homes in Fort Wayne are cheaper than Allen County as a whole, where the median is $258,784 — a difference of about 3.6%.
Median household income here is $61,422, so the typical home value is about 4.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Fort Wayne police reported 308 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 271,892. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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