Hilliard, Ohio.
Typical home $380,847 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,573 (+1.3%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Hilliard
Hilliard’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Hilliard is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Dublin City and Hilliard City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,104 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,142 +1%
- $378,705$380,847 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,860 +28%
- $297,987$380,847 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.
- Hilliard$1,999
- 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 Hilliard, OH rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hilliard, OH rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hilliard runs $1,301/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,378 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,874 a month against $1,573 rent: a $1,999 mortgage payment, plus $467 property tax and $408 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hilliard
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$2,874
- Renting$1,573
- Mortgage only$1,999
Property tax · $467/mo 1.47% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Franklin County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $408/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 Hilliard, Franklin County, Ohio
Hilliard is a city of 37,114 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $128,189 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Hilliard was 2.8% in August 2026, and Franklin County had 1.6% 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. Hilliard is a city on the western side of the Columbus area, with a population on the younger side and incomes well above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks and insurance, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Hilliard are Verizon Communications, Rich Products Hilliard, which makes frozen doughnuts, and Target. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, many people work from home, and the typical trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Early Television Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and Ohio Stadium, one of the best known college football grounds in the region. The Wexner Center for the Arts, a museum, is also a short drive away.
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- 14,223households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 791,805 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Ohio State Univ Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Hilliard
- Hilliard City Schools1,942
- City of Hilliard422
- Advanced Drainage Systems371
- The EcoPlumbers349
- R. E. Rich Family Holding Corp.341
- Micro Center Inc.301
- Amazon Data Services**255
- Honda Dev. Mfg. of America, LLC213
From the City of Hilliard’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Income Tax Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of HilliardRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of HilliardRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of HilliardRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hilliard’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 Franklin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Hilliard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hilliard$380,847
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hilliard listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- Hilliard38.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hilliard9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hilliard163
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hilliard71
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hilliard$333,297
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hilliard100.17%
Zip codes with a Hilliard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hilliard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.