Mark Center, Ohio.
Typical home $164,332 (+7.5% in a year). Defiance, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Mark Center
Mark Center is in Defiance County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$431 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,528 +8%
- $152,803$164,332 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,002 +32%
- $124,330$164,332 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.
- Mark Center$863
- 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 Mark Center, OH rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mark Center, Defiance County, Ohio
The Census does not count Mark Center on its own, so the figures here are Defiance County's. Half the county's households earn more than $73,064 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Defiance County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Defiance County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mark Center is a small community in Defiance County, in the northwest corner of Ohio. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year is fairly wet, so the seasons are easy to tell apart.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs dipped slightly over the past year. Few people work from home, so most people commute to a workplace outside the house.
Things to do. One of the best known spots nearby is the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, a museum a longer drive away. Fort Defiance, a fort also a longer drive away, and Independence Dam State Park, a protected area in the same range, make good day trips for those who enjoy history or the outdoors.
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- 15,327households
- 41.1median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Defiance County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Defiance County had 15,438 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hicksville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Defiance County
- GM Defiance OperationsIron foundries542
- Thomas E. Keller TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload539
- Johns ManvilleFiberglass insulation products manufacturing501
- Defiance City SchoolsSchool district392FTE
- B&B Molded ProductsSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Hicksville Exempted Village School DistrictSchool district276FTE
- Defiance HospitalCritical access hospital258FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,096 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Defiance County, 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 Defiance County and the Defiance, OH metro.
Mark Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mark Center$164,332
- 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 Mark Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mark Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.