Montpelier, Ohio.
Typical home $156,593 (+2.0% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Montpelier
Montpelier’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Montpelier is in Williams County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Montpelier Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$480 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,009 +2%
- $153,584$156,593 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,869 +29%
- $121,725$156,593 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.
- Montpelier$822
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Montpelier, OH rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio
Montpelier is a village of 3,942 people in Williams County. Half its households earn more than $41,269 a year and half less, against $61,048 across Williams County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Williams County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montpelier is a village in Williams County, Ohio, and a small one, where residents tend to know one another. Household incomes are well below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Montpelier are Creative Liquid Coatings, Montpelier Exempted Village Schools and Powers and Sons. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home. Jobs across Williams County fell somewhat last year, and unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Harrison Lake State Park and Goll Woods State Nature Preserve are protected areas within a longer drive, good for walking and time outdoors. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, also a longer drive away, suits anyone interested in classic cars. The St. Joseph River, among the better known waterways in the area, is likewise a longer drive.
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- 1,765households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williams County had 16,008 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montpelier weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montpelier
- Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. MontpelierMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing279
- Montpelier Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district211FTE
- Powers and SonsAutomotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing131
- Martin Sprocket & Gear 07Sprockets, power transmission equipment, manufacturing111
- Chwc-montpelierCritical access hospital95FTE
- Moore IndustriesInjection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing89
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities65
- Winzeler Couplings & MetalsStampings, metal, unfinished, manufacturing44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 787 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 high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Montpelier’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 Williams County.
Montpelier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montpelier$156,593
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Montpelier 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.
- Montpelier26.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Montpelier24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Montpelier9
Zip codes with a Montpelier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montpelier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.