Alger, Ohio.
Typical home $168,874 (+7.4% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Alger
Alger’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Alger is in Hardin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Upper Scioto Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,698 +7%
- $157,176$168,874 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,207 +38%
- $122,668$168,874 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.
- Alger$886
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Alger, OH rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alger, Hardin County, Ohio
Alger is a village of 837 people in Hardin County. Half its households earn more than $38,333 a year and half less, against $62,484 across Hardin County. Unemployment in Hardin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hardin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alger is a small village in Hardin County, Ohio, where most people know one another by sight. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay near or below freezing, while July is warm. Over the year the town gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Hardin County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, Ohio Northern University and Kenton City Schools. Most people have a commute of a fair length, and very few work from home. Across the county, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive takes you to Hog Creek, a small river, and to Ada War Memorial Stadium. Zimmerman Kame, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hardin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardin County had 7,632 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lima Allen County Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardin County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard785
- Ohio Northern UniversityUniversity or college596
- Kenton City SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Precision Strip, Inc. Kenton199
- Vancrest of AdaSkilled nursing facilities160
- Ada TechnologiesTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing133
- Hardin Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,585 people in all across the county; Alger has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alger’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 Hardin County.
Alger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alger$168,874
- Ohio$245,982
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Alger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.