North Star, Ohio.
Typical home $247,168 (+10.7% in a year). Greenville, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in North Star
North Star’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
North Star is in Darke County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Versailles Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,902 +11%
- $223,267$247,168 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,961 +41%
- $175,208$247,168 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.
- North Star$1,297
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in North Star, OH rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Star, Darke County, Ohio
North Star is a village of 224 people in Darke County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Darke County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Darke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Star is a very small village in Darke County, Ohio, with far fewer people than a typical town. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a good deal more than across the county as a whole, and fewer households live below the poverty line than is common. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Darke County, some of the largest workplaces are Midmark in Versailles, the Whirlpool-Kitchenaid plant in Greenville, and Wayne Hospital Company. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Eldora Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, as is the Mississinewa River. The Shrine of the Holy Relics, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Grand Lake St. Marys, a reservoir, is farther off and suits a day by the water.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Darke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Darke County had 18,317 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Wtp weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Darke County
- Midmark - VersaillesInstitutional furniture manufacturing1,222
- Whirlpool-Kitchenaid-GreenvilleFood mixers, household-type electric, manufacturing1,193
- MTNA-Greenville PlantMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing373
- Wayne Hospital CompanyGeneral hospital342FTE
- Greenville City SchoolsSchool district329FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Fram GroupOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing288
- Premium BrandsMeat extracts made from purchased carcasses270
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,975 people in all across the county; North Star has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Star’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 Darke County and the Greenville, OH metro.
North Star home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Star$247,168
- 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 North Star address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Star — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.