Monroe, Ohio.
Typical home $353,511 (+3.2% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Monroe
Monroe’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Monroe is in Butler County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Lakota Local and Monroe Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,069 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,989 +3%
- $342,522$353,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,535 +33%
- $265,975$353,511 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.
- Monroe$1,855
- 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 Monroe, OH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monroe, Butler County, Ohio
Monroe is a city of 15,412 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $105,250 a year and half less, against $81,590 across Butler County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monroe is a small city in Butler County, Ohio, with a younger population than many places where older homeowners tend to settle. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live in poverty than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well above what many buyers expect in Ohio, so this is mostly a place of settled families and long-held houses. Winters are cold, with January highs near the freezing mark and lows well below it, while July is warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Monroe itself are the Kroger Fulfillment Network, Valicor Environmental Services and Monroe Local Schools. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number work from home, while most others make a commute of a moderate length.
Things to do. The best-known draw nearby is Kings Island, an amusement park a short drive away, which is also home to rides such as Banshee and Orion. For a longer outing, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is a longer drive away, as is the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Sports fans can head to Great American Ball Park, also a longer drive away.
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- 5,259households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 163,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Monroe
- Kroger Fullment Network
- Kohl's
- Amazon
- Home Depot
- Deceuninck
- UGN
- Monroe Local Schools
- Walmart Associates
From the City of Monroe’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers, as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monroe’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Butler County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Monroe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monroe$353,511
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Monroe listings — 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.
- Monroe44.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Monroe34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Monroe15
Zip codes with a Monroe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monroe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.