Howard, Ohio.
Typical home $326,613 (+3.4% in a year). Mount Vernon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Howard
Howard is in Knox County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$999 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,646 +3%
- $315,967$326,613 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,928 +32%
- $247,685$326,613 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.
- Howard$1,714
- 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 Howard, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Howard, Knox County, Ohio
Howard, in Knox County, had 246 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Howard is a very small community in Knox County, Ohio, with few residents, so people here tend to know one another. Homes are valued at more than many buyers might expect for a place this size, and the county's household incomes sit at a comfortable middle level. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Kokosing Construction Company, Ariel, which makes air compressors, and Knox Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Mohican River and the Kokosing River are both a short drive away and suit a day by the water. A longer drive brings you to Mohican State Park, a protected area of woods and river valley, and to Malabar Farm State Park. For something different, the Ohio State Reformatory, now a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 20,365 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 42 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Knox County
- Manufacturing2,308
- Education1,446
- Medical1,400
- County Government568
- Retail298
- Construction220
From Knox County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Area Development Foundation”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- 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 Howard’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 Knox County and the Mount Vernon, OH metro.
Howard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Howard$326,613
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Howard listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Howard24.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Howard86
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Howard21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Howard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Howard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.