Marion, Ohio.
Typical home $169,448 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,154 . Marion, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Marion
Marion’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Marion is in Marion County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 5 school districts: Elgin Local, Marion City, Pleasant Local, Ridgedale Local and River Valley Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$550 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,573 +3%
- $163,874$169,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,487 +37%
- $123,961$169,448 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.
- Marion$889
- 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 Marion, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Marion County, Ohio
Marion is a city of 35,999 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $47,951 a year and half less, against $59,371 across Marion County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Marion was 4.0% in August 2026, and Marion County had 1.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Marion are Marion General Hospital, Marion City Schools and Graphic Packaging International. Unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, and Marion County has slightly more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Palace Theatre, a theatre in or beside town, is the closest of the well-known places. A short drive away are the Little Scioto River and the Terradise Nature Center, a small museum devoted to nature. The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 12,445households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 23,441 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 24 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion
- Marion General HospitalGeneral hospital989FTE
- Marion City SchoolsSchool district867FTE
- United Church HomesNursing homes393
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard379
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated243
- Motherson Yachiyo US Automotive SystemsGas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing236
- Ohio Heartland Community Action CommissionPrimary schools180
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores177
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,805 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of MarionRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of MarionRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marion’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Marion County and the Marion, OH metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$169,448
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marion listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Marion37.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Marion14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marion176
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marion65
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Marion$153,709
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Marion98.13%
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.