Laura, Ohio.
Typical home $266,881 (+4.3% in a year). Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Laura
Laura’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Laura is in Miami County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Milton-Union Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$805 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,030 +4%
- $255,851$266,881 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,054 +34%
- $198,828$266,881 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.
- Laura$1,401
- 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 Laura, OH rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laura, Miami County, Ohio
Laura is a village of 398 people in Miami County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Miami County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laura is a very small village in Miami County, Ohio, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical, and the share of people living in poverty is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Across Miami County, some of the largest workplaces are Clopay, which makes garage doors, Upper Valley Medical Center, a general hospital, and Troy City Schools. Many people drive a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The Dayton area offers several museums, though each is a longer drive away. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the best known, and the Dayton Art Institute is another museum for a day out. For time outdoors, Sycamore State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and the Stillwater River runs nearby.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Miami County had 41,783 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 25 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dayton International Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Miami County
- Clopay Bldg./Products1,537
- ConAgra995
- Upper Valley Medical Center932
- F & P America Mfg880
- Miami County813
- Troy City Schools523
- Kettering Health507
- Piqua City Schools475
From Miami County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “County Auditor's Office”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laura’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 Miami County and the Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
Laura home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laura$266,881
- 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 Laura address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laura — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.