Jackson Center, Ohio.
Typical home $216,950 (+4.3% in a year). Sidney, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Jackson Center
Jackson Center’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Jackson Center is in Shelby County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Jackson Center Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$667 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,948 +4%
- $208,002$216,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,659 +39%
- $156,291$216,950 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.
- Jackson Center$1,139
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Jackson Center, OH rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jackson Center, Shelby County, Ohio
Jackson Center is a village of 1,441 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $64,900 a year and half less, against $73,978 across Shelby County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shelby 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jackson Center is a small village in Shelby County, Ohio, with a population that makes it one of the smaller communities in the area. Households here earn less than across the county as a whole, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Shelby County, some of the largest workplaces are Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, the recreational trailer maker Thor, and Plastipak, which makes plastic bottles. The commute to work is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Indian Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and the Great Miami River is close by as well. Grand Lake St. Marys, another reservoir, lies a longer drive off. History-minded visitors can head to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, also a longer drive away, or to the Dunns Pond Mound, an archaeological site a short drive from the village.
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- 554households
- 14%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Shelby County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 26,404 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer 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 86° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntsville 3N weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Honda Development & Manufacturing of America (HDMA)Gasoline engines, automotive and truck, manufacturing3,634
- ThorTravel trailers, recreational, manufacturing1,000
- Plastipak- Jackson CenterBottles, plastics, manufacturing855
- Sidney City SchoolsSchool district430FTE
- Wilson Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital389FTE
- NK Parts Industries - OSCC & DLSWarehousing and storage, general merchandise381
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Freshway FoodsVegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing341
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,325 people in all across the county; Jackson Center has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jackson Center’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 Shelby County and the Sidney, OH metro.
Jackson Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson Center$216,950
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jackson Center8
Zip codes with a Jackson Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.