Continental, Ohio.
Typical home $214,429 (+8.6% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Continental
Continental’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Continental is in Putnam County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Continental Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$634 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,956 +9%
- $197,473$214,429 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,464 +33%
- $160,966$214,429 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.
- Continental$1,125
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Continental, OH rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Continental, Putnam County, Ohio
Continental is a village of 1,102 people in Putnam County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Putnam County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Continental is a small village in Putnam County, in northwest Ohio, and it is a place where most people own the homes they live in, far more than across most of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the village is a quiet one in which neighbors tend to know one another.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and restaurants. Across Putnam County, some of the largest workplaces are Whirlpool Corporation's Ottawa Operations, which makes household freezers, Kalida Manufacturing, which stamps metal motor vehicle body parts, and Ottawa-Glandorf Local Schools. A typical commute is a moderate drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Blanchard River and the Ottawa River are both a short drive away, and the Auglaize River is a longer drive. Independence Dam State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away for those who want a day by the water. A little farther afield, Fort Defiance and the Allen County Museum give a look at the region's history.
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- 593households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 12,444 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 24 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Defiance weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Putnam County
- Whirlpool Corporation - Ottawa OperationsFreezers, chest and upright household-type, manufacturing482
- PRO-TEC Coating CompanyBonderizing metal and metal products for the trade442
- Kalida ManufacturingMetal motor vehicle body parts stamping344
- Unverferth Manufacturing- Kalida DivisionHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing336
- Ottawa-Glandorf Local SchoolsSchool district279FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Mars PetcareDog and cat food, manufacturing220
- Progressive StampingJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing188
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,280 people in all across the county; Continental has one 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
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Continental’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 Putnam County.
Continental home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Continental$214,429
- 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 Continental address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Continental — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.