Cardington, Ohio.
Typical home $281,975 (+2.7% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Cardington
Cardington’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Cardington is in Morrow County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Cardington-Lincoln Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$729 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,316 +3%
- $274,659$281,975 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,145 +12%
- $251,830$281,975 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.
- Cardington$1,480
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Cardington, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio
Cardington is a village of 2,079 people in Morrow County. Half its households earn more than $70,260 a year and half less, against $75,283 across Morrow County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Morrow County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrow 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cardington is a village in Morrow County, Ohio, with a small population and a settled feel. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and precipitation falls through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing local people. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people travel some distance to their jobs. Among the largest workplaces across Morrow County are Cardington Yutaka Technologies, which makes automotive exhaust parts, and the Cardington-Lincoln Local Schools.
Things to do. A short drive away, Mount Gilead State Park offers protected woodland and water, and Terradise Nature Center is a museum about the outdoors. Levering Hall, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For a longer day out, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a longer drive away.
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- 773households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Morrow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrow County had 5,310 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer 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 62°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion Municipal Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrow County
- DC15 DC15 MarengoGeneral warehousing and storage472
- Cardington Yutaka TechnologiesCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing453
- Highland Local SchoolsSchool district343FTE
- Cardington-Lincoln Local SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Mount Gilead Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district202FTE
- Northmor Local SchoolsSchool district149FTE
- Morrow County HospitalCritical access hospital141FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,971 people in all across the county; Cardington has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cardington’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 Morrow County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Cardington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cardington$281,975
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cardington 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.
- Cardington27.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cardington21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cardington7
Zip codes with a Cardington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cardington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Cardington
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43315 | Cardington | 6,873 | — | $284,667 |
| 43321 | Fulton | 378 | — | $194,046 |