Kenton, Ohio.
Typical home $182,570 (+3.3% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Kenton
Kenton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Kenton is in Hardin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Kenton City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$531 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,795 +3%
- $176,775$182,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,492 +25%
- $146,078$182,570 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.
- Kenton$958
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Kenton, OH rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio
Kenton is a city of 7,947 people in Hardin County. Half its households earn more than $56,033 a year and half less, against $62,484 across Hardin County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Hardin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kenton is a small city and the seat of Hardin County in northwestern Ohio. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit below the county's. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Kenton are Graphic Packaging International, which makes paper and paperboard, Kenton City Schools and Hardin Memorial Hospital. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Indian Lake is a reservoir and Broken Sword Creek a river, both a longer drive away. History lovers can head to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, also a longer drive away. Ohio Caverns, a protected area, is another longer drive, and a good choice for a cool day out.
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- 3,347households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardin County had 7,632 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 26 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kenton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenton
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard785
- Kenton City SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Hardin Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
- Kenton Nursing and Rehab CenterNursing homes91
- DurezPhenolic resins manufacturing52
- Trustwell Living at Blanchard PlaceAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities33
- KentonMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,510 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of KentonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Hardin County.
Kenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenton$182,570
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kenton listings — 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.
- Kenton29.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kenton45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kenton16
Zip codes with a Kenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Kenton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43326 | Kenton | 12,573 | — | $181,942 |
| 43332 | La Rue | 2,173 | — | $215,511 |