Butler, Ohio.
Typical home $268,803 (+7.1% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Butler
Butler’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Butler is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Clear Fork Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$863 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,862 +7%
- $250,941$268,803 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,462 +44%
- $186,341$268,803 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.
- Butler$1,411
- 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 Butler, OH rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butler, Richland County, Ohio
Butler is a village of 941 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $75,250 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Butler is a small village in Richland County, with a population that fits on a few quiet streets. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm summer days and plenty of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are Medcentral Health System, Mansfield City Schools and Madison Local Schools. The typical commute is a long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Malabar Farm State Park, a protected area, and Mohican State Park, another protected area, are both a short drive away, as is Pleasant Hill Lake, a reservoir. For something further afield, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 368households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 42 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville West weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Richland County
- OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital2,500
- CNG1,200
- Avita775
- Richland County758
- Newman Technology, Incorporated625
- Arcelor Mittal550
- The Gorman Rupp Company525
- Adena Corporation525
From Richland County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “2015 - Richland County and the Ohio Department of Economic Development 2024 - Mansfield Chamber of Commerce”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Butler’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Butler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Butler$268,803
- 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.
- Butler7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Butler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Butler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.