Botkins, Ohio.
Typical home $281,922 (+7.6% in a year). Sidney, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Botkins
Botkins’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Botkins is in Shelby County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Anna Local and Botkins Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$894 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,961 +8%
- $261,961$281,922 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,720 +47%
- $192,202$281,922 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.
- Botkins$1,480
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Botkins, OH rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Botkins, Shelby County, Ohio
Botkins is a village of 1,155 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $80,000 a year and half less, against $73,978 across Shelby County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Botkins is a small village in Shelby County, Ohio, where most households own the home they live in. Incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in wholesale, or in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Botkins itself are Boomerang Rubber, Botkins Local Schools and Agrana Fruit US, Inc. Botkins. Most people get to work in a fairly short commute, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Armstrong Air and Space Museum is one of the best known museums in the area, and Lake Loramie State Park offers a protected area of woods and water. Anna Town Hall, also a short drive off, is a local theatre. Those willing to drive further can reach Grand Lake St. Marys, a large reservoir.
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- 390households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 26,404 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney South weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Botkins
- Boomerang RubberFloor mats, rubber, manufacturing135
- Botkins Local SchoolsSchool district122FTE
- Agrana Fruit US, Inc. BotkinsFruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing108
- Brown IndustrialTruck trailer manufacturing98
- Koenig Equipment- AnnaAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers36
- Schnippel ConstructionIndustrial building construction, general contractors31
- Ridley USAAnimal feed mills manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Botkins’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Shelby County and the Sidney, OH metro.
Botkins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Botkins$281,922
- 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 Botkins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Botkins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.