Mason, Ohio.
Typical home $504,484 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $2,118 (+0.8%). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Mason
Mason’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Mason is in Warren County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Kings Local, Lebanon City and Mason City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,463 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,450 +1%
- $498,034$504,484 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,981 +32%
- $382,503$504,484 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.
- Mason$2,648
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mason, OH rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Mason, OH rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mason runs $1,575/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,592 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,693 a month against $2,118 rent: a $2,648 mortgage payment, plus $505 property tax and $540 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mason
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$3,693
- Renting$2,118
- Mortgage only$2,648
Property tax · $505/mo 1.20% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Warren County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $540/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 Mason, Warren County, Ohio
Mason is a city of 34,792 people in Warren County. Half its households earn more than $125,401 a year and half less, against $110,132 across Warren County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Mason was 3.1% in August 2026, and Warren County had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Mason is a city in Warren County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Residents are somewhat older than in many American towns, a large share hold a four-year degree, and very few live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Mason are Mason City Schools, AtriCure Medical Devices and Great Wolf Lodge Mason. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and Warren County has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are of middling length, and quite a few people work from home.
Things to do. Kings Island, an amusement park, sits in or beside town, along with several of its well-known rides, such as The Beast, Banshee and Orion. Farther afield, a longer drive away, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is a zoo and garden, and the Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum. Sports fans can also reach Great American Ball Park, a baseball stadium, on a longer drive.
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- 13,502households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 102,347 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamilton Butler County Regional Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Mason
- Procter & Gamble Company3,339
- Cintas Corporation1,717
- Kings Island1,250
- Mason City Schools1,087
- EssilorLuxottica900
- L3Harris Technologies Inc860
- Empire Packing LP766
- Honeywell-Intelligrated665
From the City of Mason’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Full-time employees from City of Mason Economic Development”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of MasonRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of MasonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mason’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 Warren County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Mason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mason$504,484
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mason listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Mason33.05%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mason15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mason136
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mason59
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mason$408,478
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Mason99.00%
Zip codes with a Mason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mason — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.