Cairo, Ohio.
Typical home $141,825 (+1.1% in a year). Lima, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Cairo
Cairo’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Cairo is in Allen County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bath Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,512 +1%
- $140,313$141,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,493 +23%
- $115,331$141,825 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.
- Cairo$744
- 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 Cairo, OH rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Cairo, Allen County, Ohio
Cairo is a village of 517 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $83,125 a year and half less, against $64,038 across Allen County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% 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 people in Allen County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cairo is a village in Allen County, Ohio, and a small one, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Allen County, some of the largest workplaces are Ford Motor Company, St. Rita's Medical Center and Lima Memorial Hospital. The usual trip to work is fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Allen County Museum and the Ohio Theatre are both a short drive away, one for local history and the other for an evening out. Further afield, the Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a longer drive, and Grand Lake St. Marys, a large reservoir, is another longer drive for time on the water.
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- 214households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Allen County 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 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lima Wwtp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- Ford Motor CompanyEngine manufacture1,550
- St. Ritas Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,387FTE
- Lima Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,262FTE
- Procter & GambleMechanic's hand soaps and pastes manufacturing1,162
- US Army, Department of DefenseTanks, military, manufacturing1,001
- Lima City SchoolsSchool district950FTE
- SumiRikoRubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing629
- Novus Foods - DelphosPuddings, canned dessert, manufacturing525
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,295 people in all across the county; Cairo has none of its own. 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
- 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 Cairo’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.
Cairo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cairo$141,825
- 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 Cairo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cairo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.