Alvada, Ohio.
Typical home $288,477 (+9.6% in a year). Tiffin, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Alvada
Alvada is in Seneca County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$919 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,328 +10%
- $263,149$288,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,495 +40%
- $205,982$288,477 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.
- Alvada$1,514
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Alvada, OH rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alvada, Seneca County, Ohio
The Census does not count Alvada on its own, so the figures here are Seneca County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,025 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Seneca County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alvada is a town in Seneca County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is middle-aged. Winters bring cold temperatures and a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and wet. Many residents have lived in the area for a long time, and neighbors often know one another.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, along with retail shops. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has had somewhat fewer jobs recently than before. Few people work from home, and most adults do not hold a college degree.
Things to do. Van Buren State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to those who enjoy time outdoors. The Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books, also a longer drive away, is a museum devoted to picture-book art. Doyt Perry Stadium, a longer drive away, is a stadium for sporting events.
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- 22,279households
- 40.2median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Seneca County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 18,700 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Findlay Wpcc weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca County
- Tiffin UniversityUniversity or college457
- Tiffin City SchoolsSchool district427FTE
- National MachineryMachine tools, metal forming, manufacturing380
- Toledo Molding & Die Tiffin PlantOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters341
- Webster Industries - TiffinBuckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing288
- RoppeSheeting, rubber, manufacturing287
- Heidelberg UniversityUniversity or college271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,072 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Seneca County, 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 Seneca County and the Tiffin, OH metro.
Alvada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alvada$288,477
- 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.
Zip codes with a Alvada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alvada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.