Dunkirk, Ohio.
Typical home $168,798 (+4.1% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Dunkirk
Dunkirk’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Dunkirk is in Hardin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Hardin Northern Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$496 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,647 +4%
- $162,151$168,798 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,859 +28%
- $131,940$168,798 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.
- Dunkirk$886
- 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 Dunkirk, OH rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dunkirk, Hardin County, Ohio
Dunkirk is a village of 774 people in Hardin County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Hardin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunkirk is a small Ohio village in Hardin County, a place where nearly everyone knows the neighbors. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, professional and business services, shops and the building trades. Across Hardin County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, Ohio Northern University and Kenton City Schools. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Van Buren State Park is a protected area, and Van Buren Lake is a reservoir, though both are a longer drive away. Those curious about the region's past can visit Lake Ridge Island Mounds, an archaeological site, also a longer drive away. Allen County Museum is another museum within the same longer drive.
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- 358households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardin County had 7,632 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 26 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kenton weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardin County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard785
- Ohio Northern UniversityUniversity or college596
- Kenton City SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Precision Strip, Inc. Kenton199
- Vancrest of AdaSkilled nursing facilities160
- Ada TechnologiesTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing133
- Hardin Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,585 people in all across the county; Dunkirk has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dunkirk’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 Hardin County.
Dunkirk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunkirk$168,798
- 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.
- Dunkirk4
Zip codes with a Dunkirk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunkirk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.