Newark, Ohio.
Typical home $246,884 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,420 (+6.8%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Newark
Newark’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Newark is in Licking County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 4 school districts: Granville Exempted Village, Licking Valley Local, Newark City and North Fork Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,228 +3%
- $238,656$246,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,595 +37%
- $180,289$246,884 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.
- Newark$1,296
- 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 Newark, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Newark, OH rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Newark runs $392/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $534 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,812 a month against $1,420 rent: a $1,296 mortgage payment, plus $251 property tax and $264 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Newark
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,812
- Renting$1,420
- Mortgage only$1,296
Property tax · $251/mo 1.22% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Licking County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $264/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Newark, Licking County, Ohio
Newark is a city of 49,934 people in Licking County. Half its households earn more than $61,670 a year and half less, against $84,426 across Licking County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Newark was 3.7% in August 2026, and Licking County had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Newark is a city and the center of Licking County, and its residents are about as old as the typical American, with no strong lean toward the very young or the very old. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Homes are lived in by their owners more often than not, though renting is common too, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while July is warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Newark are Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark City Schools and Owens Corning. The job market has been improving, with unemployment lower than it was a year ago and more jobs across Licking County than the year before. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Within a short drive are the Alligator Effigy Mound, an archaeological site, and Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve, a protected area. Buckeye Lake State Park, also a short drive away, offers more room to get outdoors. In or beside town, the Midland Theatre is the place for an evening out.
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- 20,276households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Licking County had 75,544 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 15 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newark Wtr Wks weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Newark
- Licking Memorial Hospital2,399
- Licking County Government1,200
- Newark City Schools889
- Osun/cotc550
- Owens Corning543
- City of Newark379
- Anomatic Corporation355
- PNB326
From the City of Newark’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Auditor's Office”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of NewarkRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of NewarkRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newark’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 Licking County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Newark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newark$246,884
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Newark listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Newark31.09%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newark10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newark184
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newark78
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Newark$230,367
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Newark100.06%
Zip codes with a Newark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.