McGuffey, Ohio.
Typical home $88,293 (-1.8% in a year).
Property tax and schools in McGuffey
McGuffey’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
McGuffey is in Hardin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Upper Scioto Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$55 (+13%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $1,584 -2%
- $89,877$88,293 since Sep 2025
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.
- McGuffey$463
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in McGuffey, OH fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McGuffey, Hardin County, Ohio
McGuffey is a village of 466 people in Hardin County. Half its households earn more than $51,250 a year and half less, against $62,484 across Hardin County. Unemployment in Hardin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hardin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McGuffey is a small village in Hardin County, Ohio, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home costs far less than in much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home. Winters are cold, with real snowfall, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Hardin County, the largest workplaces include Graphic Packaging International, Ohio Northern University and Kenton City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. A short drive away is Zimmerman Kame, an archaeological site, along with Dial–Roberson Stadium, a local stadium. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, and Indian Lake, a reservoir, is another longer drive for a day by the water.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Hardin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardin County had 7,632 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 26 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kenton weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardin County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard785
- Ohio Northern UniversityUniversity or college596
- Kenton City SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Precision Strip, Inc. Kenton199
- Vancrest of AdaSkilled nursing facilities160
- Ada TechnologiesTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing133
- Hardin Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,585 people in all across the county; McGuffey has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McGuffey’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 Hardin County.
McGuffey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McGuffey$88,293
- 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 McGuffey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McGuffey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.