Mount Gilead, Ohio.
Typical home $263,548 (+5.6% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Mount Gilead
Mount Gilead’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Mount Gilead is in Morrow County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,862 +6%
- $249,686$263,548 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,383 +18%
- $224,166$263,548 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.
- Mount Gilead$1,383
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Mount Gilead, OH rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio
Mount Gilead is a village of 3,503 people in Morrow County. Unemployment in Morrow County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrow County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Gilead is a small village and the seat of Morrow County, in central Ohio. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good amount of snow through the season, while summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, and most adults here do not hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Mount Gilead are Mount Gilead Exempted Village Schools, Morrow County Hospital and Kroger. The drive to work tends to be long, and very few people work from home. The county has had fewer jobs than the year before, though unemployment has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Mount Gilead State Park, a protected area, and Big Walnut Creek, a river, are both in or beside town, and Levering Hall, a theatre, is there too. A short drive away, Terradise Nature Center is a museum with a natural-history focus. For a longer outing, Malabar Farm State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,554households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Morrow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrow County had 5,310 jobs in 2025, 3.7% 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 61°. About 26 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galion Wtr Wks weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Gilead
- Mount Gilead Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district202FTE
- Morrow County HospitalCritical access hospital141FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores122
- AtriuHomes for the elderly with nursing care75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 412 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Gilead’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 Morrow County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Mount Gilead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Gilead$263,548
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mount Gilead listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Mount Gilead39.47%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Gilead53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Gilead16
Zip codes with a Mount Gilead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Gilead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.