Dresden, Ohio.
Typical home $224,734 (+4.4% in a year). Zanesville, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Dresden
Dresden’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Dresden is in Muskingum County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Tri-Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,420 +4%
- $215,314$224,734 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,677 +29%
- $174,057$224,734 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.
- Dresden$1,180
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Dresden, OH rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio
Dresden is a village of 1,650 people in Muskingum County. Half its households earn more than $57,991 a year and half less, against $60,780 across Muskingum County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Muskingum County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dresden is a village in Muskingum County, home to a small community where residents are a little older than in many American towns. Household incomes run a bit below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, while very few people work from home. Across Muskingum County, some of the largest workplaces are Genesis Healthcare System, Zanesville City Schools and Muskingum University.
Things to do. Wakatomika Creek and Little Wakatomika Creek run in or beside town, so water is close at hand. A short drive away are Dillon State Park, a protected area, and Muskingum River Parkway State Park. Wills Creek, a river, is also a short drive away, and Muskingum County Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away as well.
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- 685households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muskingum County had 35,758 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 15 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coshocton Wpc Plt weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Muskingum County
- Genesis Health Care4,000
- Dollar General Corporation952
- Muskingum County810
- AutoZone652
- Charter561
- Zanesville City School District514
- Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated479
- Bimbo Bakery450
From Muskingum County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Zanesville - Muskingum County Port Authority and Individual Employers”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dresden’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 Muskingum County and the Zanesville, OH metro.
Dresden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dresden$224,734
- 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.
- Dresden9
Zip codes with a Dresden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dresden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.