Dalton, Ohio.
Typical home $304,069 (+5.5% in a year). Wooster, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Dalton
Dalton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Dalton is in Wayne County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Dalton Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$956 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,918 +6%
- $288,151$304,069 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,924 +45%
- $210,145$304,069 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.
- Dalton$1,596
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Dalton, OH rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio
Dalton is a village of 1,927 people in Wayne County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dalton is a small village in Wayne County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and fewer households live below the poverty line than is common nationally. The population is on the older side, and typical home values are well above what many small Ohio places see. A four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults, though not by most.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Dalton Local Schools, Provide A Care and Wenger Excavating are among the largest workplaces in the village. A typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home. Across Wayne County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The Pro Football Hall of Fame, a museum, is a longer drive away, as is the Akron Art Museum. For time outdoors, Portage Lakes State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 634households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 48,168 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wooster Wayne County Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dalton
- Dalton Local SchoolsSchool district208FTE
- Provide A CareSkilled nursing facilities160
- Wenger ExcavatingExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors51
- Mars HorsecareAnimal feeds, prepared, manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 258 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dalton’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 Wayne County and the Wooster, OH metro.
Dalton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dalton$304,069
- 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.
- Dalton14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dalton6
Zip codes with a Dalton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dalton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.