Delaware, Ohio.
Typical home $413,190 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,622 (+1.9%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Delaware
Delaware’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Delaware is in Delaware County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Buckeye Valley Local, Delaware City and Olentangy Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,146 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,408 +1%
- $410,782$413,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,264 +22%
- $338,926$413,190 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.
- Delaware$2,169
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Delaware, OH rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Delaware, OH rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Delaware runs $1,541/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,637 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,162 a month against $1,622 rent: a $2,169 mortgage payment, plus $551 property tax and $442 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Delaware
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,162
- Renting$1,622
- Mortgage only$2,169
Property tax · $551/mo 1.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Delaware County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $442/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio
Delaware is a city of 41,302 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $99,786 a year and half less, against $133,540 across Delaware County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware was 3.4% in August 2026, and Delaware County had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Delaware is a small city in central Ohio where residents tend to be younger than in many American towns, and where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well below the county's, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing, and banking, insurance and property also common. Among the largest workplaces in town are Delaware City Schools, Ohio Wesleyan University and PPG Industries. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Richard Ross Museum of Art offers a quiet afternoon indoors. A short drive away are Delaware State Park and Alum Creek State Park, both protected areas with room to walk and spend time outdoors. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is also a short drive away.
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- 16,728households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 100,816 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marysville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware
- Delaware City SchoolsSchool district947FTE
- PPG IndustriesPaint and coating manufacturing717
- Kroger Atlanta KMAGeneral warehouse and storage710
- Advance Auto Parts DC 23Automotive parts482
- Ohio Wesleyan UniversityUniversity or college441
- Grady Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital421FTE
- Midwest Acoust-A-FiberFiberglass insulation products manufacturing392
- VertivUps uninterruptible power supplies manufacturing320
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,293 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of DelawareRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of DelawareRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delaware’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Delaware County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Delaware home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delaware$413,190
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Delaware listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Delaware36.69%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Delaware18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delaware225
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delaware81
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Delaware$373,009
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Delaware98.82%
Zip codes with a Delaware address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delaware — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.