Fostoria, Ohio.
Typical home $143,644 (+3.7% in a year). Tiffin, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Fostoria
Fostoria’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Fostoria is in Seneca County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Fostoria City, Hopewell-Loudon Local and Lakota Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,079 +4%
- $138,565$143,644 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,488 +30%
- $110,156$143,644 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.
- Fostoria$754
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Fostoria, OH rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio
Fostoria is a city of 13,046 people in Seneca County. Half its households earn more than $54,151 a year and half less, against $66,025 across Seneca County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fostoria is a small Ohio city in Seneca County. Residents are around the middle of the age range, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, more people live below the poverty line than is typical, and homes are valued at a modest level, with fewer adults holding a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Fostoria include Fostoria City Schools, the rubber maker Roppe and Morgan Advanced Materials. Unemployment across Seneca County has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Most people drive to work, the typical commute is moderate, and very few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Van Buren State Park and the neighboring Van Buren Lake, a reservoir, are among the nearest well-known options, each a longer drive away. Seneca Caverns, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive from town. Anyone after something indoors could head for the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books, a museum that is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 5,097households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 18,700 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 30 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tiffin weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fostoria
- Fostoria City SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- RoppeSheeting, rubber, manufacturing287
- Morgan Advanced MaterialsCarbons, electric, manufacturing199
- Fostoria Community HospitalCritical access hospital157FTE
- NOX USFloor coverings, vinyl, manufacturing146
- Custom Glass SolutionsLaminated glass made from purchased glass130
- CalliesBearings, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing128
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,990 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of FostoriaRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fostoria’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 Seneca County and the Tiffin, OH metro.
Fostoria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fostoria$143,644
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fostoria 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.
- Fostoria24.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fostoria43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fostoria20
Zip codes with a Fostoria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fostoria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.