Delphos, Ohio.
Typical home $199,369 (+4.9% in a year). Lima, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Delphos
Delphos’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Delphos is in Allen County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Delphos City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$604 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,254 +5%
- $190,115$199,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,687 +33%
- $149,681$199,369 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.
- Delphos$1,046
- 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 Delphos, OH rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delphos, Allen County, Ohio
Delphos is a city of 7,117 people in Allen County. Half its households earn more than $61,037 a year and half less, against $64,038 across Allen County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delphos is a small Ohio city in Allen County, with a population that skews a little older than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run somewhat below the county's. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground at times, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Among the larger workplaces in Delphos are Novus Foods, which makes puddings and canned desserts, Vancrest of Delphos, a skilled nursing facility, and Bunge North America, which processes soybeans and other oilseeds. Relatively few people work from home, and a typical commute is short.
Things to do. The Allen County Museum is one of the better known places nearby, a local history museum a longer drive away. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum, also a longer drive away, is another museum worth the trip. For time outdoors, Fort Amanda State Park is a park a longer drive away, and Pike Run, a small river, is a short drive away.
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- 3,128households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 50,015 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Van Wert South weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delphos
- Novus Foods - DelphosPuddings, canned dessert, manufacturing525
- K&M Tire CorporateMotor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers340
- Vancrest of DelphosSkilled nursing facility176
- Bunge North AmericaSoybean and other oilseed processing88
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities82
- FST LogisticsGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, less than truckload57
- Fresh EncounterSupermarkets51
- Ecore InternationalFloor coverings, rubber, manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,467 people in all. 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 in parts of DelphosRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delphos’ 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 Allen County and the Lima, OH metro.
Delphos home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delphos$199,369
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Delphos 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.
- Delphos32.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delphos21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delphos10
Zip codes with a Delphos address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delphos — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Delphos
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45807 | Lima | 11,774 | — | $257,836 |
| 45833 | Delphos | 10,919 | — | $198,668 |