Camden, Ohio.
Typical home $220,746 (+5.5% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Camden
Camden’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Camden is in Preble County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Preble Shawnee Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,598 +6%
- $209,148$220,746 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,103 +26%
- $174,643$220,746 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.
- Camden$1,159
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Camden, OH rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Preble County, Ohio
Camden is a village of 1,989 people in Preble County. Unemployment in Preble County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Preble County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a small village in Preble County, Ohio, where most people know their neighbors. Poverty is more common here than is typical, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Preble County, some of the largest workplaces are Henny Penny, which makes commercial cooking equipment, Neaton Auto Products, which makes oil filters, and Eaton Community City Schools. The typical commute is fairly long, and unemployment has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Beasley Run and Paint Creek both run in or beside town, and Hueston Woods State Park, a reservoir with a state park around it, is a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Kings Island, an amusement park, and the Dayton Art Institute, a museum, are a longer drive away.
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- 829households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Preble County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Preble County had 11,523 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eaton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Preble County
- Henny PennyCooking equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing872
- Neaton Auto ProductsOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing725
- Silfex Inc. Eaton FacilitySemiconductor devices manufacturing494
- Eaton Community City SchoolsSchool district340FTE
- Pratt (Lewisburg Container)Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard283
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- Parker Hannifin Corp - TFDMetal valve and pipe manufacturing234
- Tri-County North Local SchoolsSchool district207FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,161 people in all across the county; Camden has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Camden’s 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 Preble County.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$220,746
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Camden listings — 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.
- Camden40.42%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camden19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camden6
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.