Fort Recovery, Ohio.
Typical home $350,671 (+6.4% in a year). Celina, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Fort Recovery
Fort Recovery’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Fort Recovery is in Mercer County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,065 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,102 +6%
- $329,569$350,671 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,937 +37%
- $255,734$350,671 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.
- Fort Recovery$1,841
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Fort Recovery, OH rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio
Fort Recovery is a village of 1,501 people in Mercer County. Half its households earn more than $66,563 a year and half less, against $76,782 across Mercer County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Mercer County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Recovery is a small village in Mercer County, Ohio, with a population that is easy to know by name. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many towns. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, other services, and shops. Across Mercer County, some of the largest workplaces are Crown Equipment Corporation in Celina, Cooper Farms and Celina City Schools. The commute is short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town there is a museum, the Fort Recovery museum, for anyone curious about the area's past. A short drive away are the Mississinewa River and Eldora Speedway, a race track. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Grand Lake St. Marys, a large reservoir.
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- 683households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 20,220 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland Southwest weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mercer County
- Crown Equipment Corporation CelinaIndustrial trucks and tractors manufacturing1,288
- Cooper FarmsPoultry processing738
- Celina City SchoolsSchool district532FTE
- CheesemanGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload472
- Bruns Construction EnterprisesConstruction418
- Mercer County Community HospitalGeneral hospital401FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- Celina Aluminum Precision TechnologyAluminum castings, unfinished, manufacturing378
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,638 people in all across the county; Fort Recovery has two of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Recovery’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 Mercer County and the Celina, OH metro.
Fort Recovery home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Recovery$350,671
- 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 Fort Recovery address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Recovery — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.