Fairborn, Ohio.
Typical home $208,109 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $1,500 (+9.0%). Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Fairborn
Fairborn’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Fairborn is in Greene County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Beavercreek City, Fairborn City and Xenia Community City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$589 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,056 +5%
- $199,053$208,109 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,285 +28%
- $162,825$208,109 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.
- Fairborn$1,092
- 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 Fairborn, OH rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fairborn, OH rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fairborn runs $95/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $187 in May 2024.
That is $1,595 a month against $1,500 rent: a $1,092 mortgage payment, plus $280 property tax and $223 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fairborn
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,595
- Renting$1,500
- Mortgage only$1,092
Property tax · $280/mo 1.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Greene County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $223/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio
Fairborn is a city of 34,510 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $61,751 a year and half less, against $87,309 across Greene County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Fairborn was 3.1% in August 2026, and Greene County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, with a population on the younger side of the national picture. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, so renting is common. Typical home values and rents sit in a middle range, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Fairborn are Fairborn City Schools, Kroger Cincinnati-Dayton KMA and PepsiCo. Unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, and most people get to work in a fairly short commute, with some working from home.
Things to do. The National Museum of the United States Air Force, a museum, is a short drive away, and so is John Bryan State Park, a protected area with wooded gorge scenery. The Little Miami Scenic Trail, a trail for walking and cycling, is also a short drive away. For art, the Dayton Art Institute, a museum, is a longer drive. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
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- 15,911households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 80,454 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Carlisle weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Fairborn
- Wright Patterson AFB38,000
- Wright State University1,945
- Fairborn City Schools945
- Morris Home Furniture Co.443
- Peerless Technologies300
- City of Fairborn286
- Ali Industries282
- Kroger206
From the City of Fairborn’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Community Development Division”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairborn’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 Greene County and the Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
Fairborn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairborn$208,109
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fairborn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 days — 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.
- Fairborn32.63%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fairborn13
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairborn129
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairborn56
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fairborn$218,400
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fairborn99.13%
Zip codes with a Fairborn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairborn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.