Galena, Ohio.
Typical home $648,411 (+2.1% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Galena
Galena’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Galena is in Delaware County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Big Walnut Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,835 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,125 +2%
- $635,286$648,411 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $136,925 +27%
- $511,487$648,411 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.
- Galena$3,403
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Galena, OH rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Galena, Delaware County, Ohio
Galena is a village of 924 people in Delaware County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Galena is a small village in Delaware County, Ohio, with a population that is small even for a village. Almost everyone owns the home they live in, and the typical home is worth more than in many parts of the country. Residents are middle-aged on average, and a majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows both below freezing and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Delaware County, Olentangy Local Schools, DHL Supply Chain and Mettler-Toledo are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county added jobs last year. A typical commute is fairly long, and quite a few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are Alum Creek State Park, a protected area good for time outdoors, and Inniswood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, a botanical garden. A longer drive brings you to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Columbus Museum of Art, both well known city attractions.
Report a mistake
- 515households
- 55%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 100,816 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 19 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westerville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Delaware County
- J. P. Morgan Chase and Co.12,400
- Olentangy Local School District3,190
- Kroger Company1,487
- Delaware County1,298
- Mettler Toledo1,070
- Delaware City School District1,020
- Elevance Health, formerly Anthem899
- Ohio Health/Grady Memorial Hospital815
From Delaware County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Local Companies Columbus Business First Columbus Region County Profiles”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of GalenaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Galena’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 Delaware County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Galena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Galena$648,411
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Galena listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Galena40.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Galena45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Galena17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Galena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Galena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.