Bluffton, Ohio.
Typical home $276,633 (+4.8% in a year). Lima, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bluffton
Bluffton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bluffton is in Allen County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bluffton Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$794 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,793 +5%
- $263,840$276,633 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,094 +30%
- $213,540$276,633 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.
- Bluffton$1,452
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bluffton, OH rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio
Bluffton is a village of 3,967 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $75,694 a year and half less, against $64,038 across Allen County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bluffton is a village in Allen County, Ohio, small enough that most people are likely to know one another by sight. Households here earn more than across the county, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Bluffton are GROB Systems, which makes sheet metal forming machines, SumiRiko, a maker of rubber goods, and Bluffton Hospital. Commutes are short, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. Hog Creek and Dial–Roberson Stadium are both a short drive away, one a stream and the other a stadium. For a longer outing, Van Buren State Park is a protected area with a reservoir, Van Buren Lake, and the Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum dedicated to flight and space exploration. Winters are cold and snowy here, and summers are warm.
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- 1,450households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 50,015 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pandora weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bluffton
- GROB SystemsSheet metal forming machines manufacturing1,057
- SumiRikoRubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing629
- Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - BlufftonJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing151
- Bluffton Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district129FTE
- Bluffton HospitalCritical access hospital89FTE
- Diamond Manufacturing of Bluffton L60
- Fresh EncounterSupermarkets34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,068 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bluffton’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 Allen County and the Lima, OH metro.
Bluffton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bluffton$276,633
- 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.
- Bluffton12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bluffton5
Zip codes with a Bluffton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bluffton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.