Dexter City, Ohio.
Typical home $157,158 (-0.1% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Dexter City
Dexter City’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Dexter City is in Noble County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Caldwell Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$423 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $163 -0%
- $157,320$157,158 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,976 +8%
- $145,182$157,158 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.
- Dexter City$825
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Dexter City, OH fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dexter City, Noble County, Ohio
Dexter City is a village of 81 people in Noble County. Unemployment in Noble County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Noble County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dexter City is a very small village in Noble County, in the hills of southeastern Ohio, where most people know their neighbors by name. Its population is among the smallest a place can have and still be called a village. Life here moves at a quiet pace, and the town's size shapes much of what daily life looks like.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and care services, or in manufacturing, local shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, so steady work in those trades has long mattered to households. The winters are cold and the summers are warm, so the seasons shape both the work and the rhythm of the year.
Things to do. The Muskingum River is the best known natural feature nearby, and it is a longer drive away. Wolf Run State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers a quieter outing. Marietta Earthworks, an archaeological site a longer drive away, is a good choice for anyone interested in the region's early history.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Noble County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Noble County had 3,023 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Caldwell 3SE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Noble County
- Caldwell Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Noble Local SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Schroer GroupSkilled nursing facilities103
- Magnum Magnetics Corporation - CaldwellSheeting, rubber, manufacturing75
- Magnum Tapes & FilmsSheeting, rubber, manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 201 people in all across the county; Dexter City has none 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dexter City’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 Noble County.
Dexter City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dexter City$157,158
- 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 Dexter City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dexter City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.