Mount Victory, Ohio.
Typical home $234,746 (+7.5% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Mount Victory
Mount Victory’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Mount Victory is in Hardin County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,313 +7%
- $218,434$234,746 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,091 +37%
- $171,655$234,746 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 Victory$1,232
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mount Victory, OH rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Victory, Hardin County, Ohio
Mount Victory is a village of 601 people in 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Victory is a very small village in Hardin County, Ohio, where the people are a little younger than in many small towns. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in January staying a little above freezing at best and nights dropping well below it, and a good deal of snow falls through the season. Summers are warm, July being the warmest month, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Hardin County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, Ohio Northern University and Kenton City Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people travel to work rather than working from home, with a commute that is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Indian Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and a good choice for time on the water. Ohio Caverns, a protected area, and Mad River Mountain, a ski area, are also a longer drive away and suit a day out in different seasons. Those who like local history can visit the mounds at sites such as Ellis Mounds, another longer drive from the village.
Report a mistake
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%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, 9 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; Mount Victory 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Victory’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 Hardin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Mount Victory home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Victory$234,746
- 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 Mount Victory address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Victory — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.