Harpster, Ohio.
Typical home $198,379 (+8.3% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Harpster
Harpster’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Harpster is in Wyandot County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,205 +8%
- $183,173$198,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,833 +34%
- $148,545$198,379 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.
- Harpster$1,041
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Harpster, OH rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harpster, Wyandot County, Ohio
Harpster is a village of 160 people in Wyandot County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Wyandot County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wyandot County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harpster is a very small village in Wyandot County, Ohio, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Home values sit in a middle range for the state, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering just above freezing, while July brings warm days, and precipitation falls steadily through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Wyandot County, some of the largest workplaces are CSP Innovations, which makes awnings and fiberglass and plastic products, Prospira America, which makes mechanical rubber goods, and Wyandot Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county dipped a little last year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Broken Sword Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Delaware State Park, a protected area, and Hancock Historical Museum lie a longer drive away, and so does the Palace Theatre for an evening out.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
What people in Wyandot County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyandot County had 10,036 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Upper Sandusky weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyandot County
- CSP InnovationsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing820
- Vaughn Industries, LLC CareyElectrical construction800
- Prospira AmericaMechanical rubber goods manufacturing491
- Wyandot Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital460FTE
- Hanon Systems USAManufacture of vehicle hvac units369
- Kalmbach FeedsAnimal feed mills manufacturing334
- Custom Glass Solutions Upper SanduskySafety glass made from purchased glass280
- Upper Sandusky Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district268FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,786 people in all across the county; Harpster has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Harpster’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 Wyandot County.
Harpster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harpster$198,379
- 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 Harpster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harpster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.