Holmesville, Ohio.
Typical home $339,878 (+7.5% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Holmesville
Holmesville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Holmesville is in Holmes County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Waynedale Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,057 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,716 +8%
- $316,162$339,878 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,513 +34%
- $254,364$339,878 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.
- Holmesville$1,784
- 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 Holmesville, OH rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holmesville, Holmes County, Ohio
Holmesville is a village of 371 people in Holmes County. Half its households earn more than $78,929 a year and half less, against $76,140 across Holmes County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Holmes County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Holmes County work in manufacturing, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holmesville is a very small village, home to few people and a quiet place by any measure. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and no one in the village is counted as living below the poverty line. Homes are typically worth a good deal, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. People in Holmesville work mainly in manufacturing, the building trades, shops, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Holmes County, large employers include Case Farms Processing, ProVia's Walnut Creek facility and West Holmes Local Schools. Jobs in the county grew over the last year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum, and Brown's Lake Bog is a protected area. Farther afield, Mohican State Park is a protected area, and the Mohican River is one of several rivers in a longer drive's reach.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Holmes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Holmes County had 21,972 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 20 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millersburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holmes County
- Case Farms ProcessingChickens, slaughtering and dressing765
- ProVia Walnut Creek FacilityDoors, metal, manufacturing622
- Overhead DoorManufacturer of metal doors, sash, frames, molding, and trim.585
- West Holmes Local SchoolsSchool district386FTE
- Weaver LeatherHarnesses and harness parts, leather, manufacturing344
- East Holmes Local SchoolsSchool district307FTE
- CentorPackaging, plastics, manufacturing300
- Coblentz DistributionGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers286
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,477 people in all across the county; Holmesville has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holmesville’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 Holmes County.
Holmesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holmesville$339,878
- 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 Holmesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holmesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.