Carroll, Ohio.
Typical home $434,931 (+2.2% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Carroll
Carroll’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Carroll is in Fairfield County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bloom-Carroll Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,267 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,488 +2%
- $425,443$434,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,850 +25%
- $349,081$434,931 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.
- Carroll$2,283
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Carroll, OH rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carroll, Fairfield County, Ohio
Carroll is a village of 501 people in Fairfield County. Half its households earn more than $74,688 a year and half less, against $90,966 across Fairfield County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fairfield County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carroll is a very small village, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes are below the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect, while the typical home is valued at a good deal more than the village's incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also common. Across Fairfield County, some of the largest workplaces are Pickerington Methodist Hospital, Pickerington Local Schools and Fairfield Medical Center. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, though a good number of people work from home, and the county has added jobs over the past year with unemployment lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Slate Run Metro Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Columbus and its Columbus Museum of Art and the Ohio Theatre, where there is art and live performance. Sports fans can also make the longer drive to Ohio Stadium.
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- 266households
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfield County had 48,050 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancaster Fairfield Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Fairfield County
- Fairfield Medical Center2,025
- Ohio Health1,410
- Pickerington Schools1,334
- Fairfield County985
- Lancaster City Schools844
- Kroger824
- Oneida765
- Nifco611
From Fairfield County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Fairfield County Economic Development Ohio Job & Family Services, Workforce Development lmi.state.oh.us”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CarrollRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carroll’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Fairfield County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Carroll home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carroll$434,931
- 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.
- Carroll14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Carroll address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carroll — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.