Bowling Green, Ohio.
Typical home $263,330 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,041 . Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bowling Green
Bowling Green’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bowling Green is in Wood County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bowling Green City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$703 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,735 +3%
- $255,595$263,330 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,930 +23%
- $214,401$263,330 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.
- Bowling Green$1,382
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bowling Green, OH rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio
Bowling Green is a city of 30,808 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $45,154 a year and half less, against $74,216 across Wood County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 34% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 66% are rented. Unemployment in Bowling Green was 3.4% in August 2026, and Wood County had 1.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowling Green is a college city in Wood County, and it feels young: the people who live here are far younger than in most American towns, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Incomes are well below the county's, and far more households rent their homes than own them, which is what you would expect where so many residents are students. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Wood County Hospital, the Bowling Green City School District and Magna International, which stamps metal parts for motor vehicles. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, though across Wood County there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and most people have a short commute to work.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Wood County Museum is a place to learn local history, and Doyt Perry Stadium is one of several stadiums used for sport. A short drive away, Baldwin Woods Preserve offers a park to walk in, and the Portage River is close by too. For a longer drive, the Toledo Museum of Art, one of the best known places in the region, is worth the trip.
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- 12,056households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 74,868 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer 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 21 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bowling Green Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bowling Green
- Magna International - MP - TroyMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing784
- Wood County HospitalGeneral hospital567FTE
- Bowling Green City School DistrictSchool district561FTE
- TH Plastics - Bowling GreenMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing374
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters373
- Toledo Molding & DieSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing304
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores242
- Cooper StandardExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,860 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of Bowling GreenRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of Bowling GreenRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Bowling Green’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 Wood County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Bowling Green home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowling Green$263,330
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bowling Green listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bowling Green19.87%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bowling Green9
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bowling Green40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bowling Green19
Zip codes with a Bowling Green address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowling Green — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.