Eaton, Ohio.
Typical home $255,207 (+9.2% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Eaton
Eaton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Eaton is in Preble County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Eaton Community City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,570 +9%
- $233,637$255,207 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,206 +46%
- $175,000$255,207 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.
- Eaton$1,340
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Eaton, OH rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio
Eaton is a city of 8,375 people in Preble County. Half its households earn more than $51,467 a year and half less, against $69,223 across Preble County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Preble County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eaton is the city that serves as the seat of Preble County, Ohio. Its residents are somewhat older than in many places, and most of them own the homes they live in. Incomes run well below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in much of the country. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Manufacturing is the main way people here earn a living, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and government work. Among the largest workplaces in Eaton are Henny Penny, which makes commercial cooking equipment, Neaton Auto Products, which makes oil filters, and Silfex, which makes semiconductor devices. Most people have a fairly short commute, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, Periwinkle Run flows in or beside town, and Heaven's Corner, a zoo, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hueston Woods State Park is a reservoir and park a longer drive off, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force, the best known of the area's museums, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,803households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Preble County had 11,523 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eaton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eaton
- Henny PennyCooking equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing872
- Neaton Auto ProductsOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing725
- Silfex Inc. Eaton FacilitySemiconductor devices manufacturing494
- Eaton Community City SchoolsSchool district340FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- Parker Hannifin Corp - TFDMetal valve and pipe manufacturing234
- DennisSkilled nursing facilities140
- Kroger Cincinnati-Dayton KMAWarehouse clubs and supercenters118
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,001 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Eaton’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 Preble County.
Eaton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eaton$255,207
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Eaton listings — 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.
- Eaton30.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eaton62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eaton24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Eaton$213,611
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Eaton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eaton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.