Obetz, Ohio.
Typical home $271,507 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,950 . Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Obetz
Obetz’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Obetz is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Groveport Madison Local and Hamilton Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$777 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $706 -0%
- $272,212$271,507 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,974 +24%
- $218,532$271,507 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.
- Obetz$1,425
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Obetz, OH fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Obetz, Franklin County, Ohio
Obetz is a city of 5,489 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $87,304 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Obetz is a small city in Franklin County, home to a younger population than is typical of the county's older neighborhoods. Most households own their homes, and incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, though a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm and July is the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Some of the biggest workplaces in Obetz fit that last group: SK Food Group, which makes packaged frozen entrees, UPS, and DHL Supply Chain. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home. Unemployment across Franklin County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Alum Creek and Blacklick Creek run in or beside town, which makes for easy time by the water close to home. A short drive away are the Columbus Museum of Art and the Franklin Park Conservatory, a botanical garden. For a game, ScottsMiracle-Gro Field, a stadium, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,537households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 791,805 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus-valley Crossing weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Obetz
- Company A1,177
- Company B1,066
- Company C878
- Company D543
- Company E471
- Company F391
- Company G284
- Company H195
From the City of Obetz’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City of Obetz Finance Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Hailrelatively high in parts of ObetzRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ObetzRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of ObetzRelatively 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 Obetz’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 Franklin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Obetz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Obetz$271,507
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Obetz 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.
- Obetz38.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Obetz22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Obetz8
Zip codes with a Obetz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Obetz — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.