Ney, Ohio.
Typical home $207,114 (+5.5% in a year). Defiance, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ney
Ney’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ney is in Defiance County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Central Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$614 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,797 +5%
- $196,318$207,114 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,641 +32%
- $156,473$207,114 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.
- Ney$1,087
- 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 Ney, OH rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ney, Defiance County, Ohio
Ney is a village of 303 people in Defiance County. Half its households earn more than $74,821 a year and half less, against $73,064 across Defiance County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Defiance County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Defiance 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ney is a very small village in Defiance County, among the smallest places you could choose to live in Ohio. Households here earn a little more than across the county as a whole, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Residents are middle-aged on the whole, few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Defiance County, some of the biggest employers are GM Defiance Operations, an iron foundry, along with Johns Manville, which makes fiberglass insulation, and Defiance City Schools. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, though unemployment is lower now than it was a year ago, and the typical trip to work is a moderate drive, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The Tiffin River is a short drive away and a natural place to spend time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Independence Dam State Park and Harrison Lake State Park, both protected areas good for a day out. For history, Fort Defiance is also a longer drive, and the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is a longer drive too.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Defiance County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Defiance County had 15,438 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 85° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bryan Southeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Defiance County
- GM Defiance OperationsIron foundries542
- Thomas E. Keller TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload539
- Johns ManvilleFiberglass insulation products manufacturing501
- Defiance City SchoolsSchool district392FTE
- B&B Molded ProductsSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Hicksville Exempted Village School DistrictSchool district276FTE
- Defiance HospitalCritical access hospital258FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,096 people in all across the county; Ney has none of its own. 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 moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Ney’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 Defiance County and the Defiance, OH metro.
Ney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ney$207,114
- 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 Ney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.