London, Ohio.
Typical home $288,259 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,383 . Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in London
London’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
London is in Madison County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: London City and Madison-Plains Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$832 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,644 +3%
- $280,616$288,259 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,859 +24%
- $232,400$288,259 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.
- London$1,513
- 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 London, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in London, Madison County, Ohio
London is a city of 10,279 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $60,231 a year and half less, against $87,045 across Madison County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. London is a small city and the seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population that skews a little older than the national picture. Incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the community. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. People in London work mainly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in town are Stanley Electric, which makes automotive lighting, Staples, which runs a warehouse, and Madison Health, the local hospital. Commutes are of middling length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Madison Lake State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Little Miami River, which suits time outdoors by the water. A longer drive brings you to Columbus, where the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Columbus Museum of Art are among the places to spend a day.
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- 4,646households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 24,269 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the London Fish Hatchery weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in London
- Stanley Electric U.S Co Inc - ALPAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing1,074
- StaplesGeneral warehousing and storage480
- Madison HealthGeneral hospital241FTE
- Stanley Electric US Co Inc - ELPAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing197
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores128
- Building Systems Transportation CoTransportation123
- Gra-magSeats for public conveyances, manufacturing70
- Advanced Drainage SystemsPlastic pipe manufacturing67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,713 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of LondonRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in London’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 Madison County and the Columbus, OH metro.
London home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- London$288,259
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 London 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.
- London27.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- London41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- London15
Zip codes with a London address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls London — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.