Ohio City, Ohio.
Typical home $171,444 (+1.3% in a year). Van Wert, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ohio City
Ohio City’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ohio City is in Van Wert County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Van Wert City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,159 +1%
- $169,285$171,444 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,702 +29%
- $132,742$171,444 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.
- Ohio City$900
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Ohio City, OH rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Ohio City, Van Wert County, Ohio
Ohio City is a village of 651 people in Van Wert County. Half its households earn more than $60,260 a year and half less, against $67,917 across Van Wert County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Van Wert County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Wert 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ohio City is a small village in Van Wert County, in the flat farm country of northwestern Ohio. It is a very small community, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit well within reach of a modest budget. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents of Ohio City work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Van Wert County, the largest workplaces include Danfoss Power Solutions II, which makes hydraulic fittings, Cooper Farms, a poultry processor, and Van Wert City Schools. Few adults hold a four-year degree, nearly everyone travels to a job rather than working from home, and the trip to work is a moderate one. Jobs across the county have dipped from the year before, though unemployment is lower than it was then.
Things to do. The nearest well-known places are a longer drive away, and most centre on water and history. Grand Lake St. Marys is a large reservoir, with a state park of the same name beside it for time outdoors. For something indoors, the Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum a longer drive away. The St. Marys River is another option for a quiet day by the water.
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- 277households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Van Wert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Wert County had 11,050 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Van Wert South weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Wert County
- Danfoss Power Solutions IIHydraulic hose fittings, fluid power, manufacturing823
- Cooper FarmsPoultry processing714
- Van Wert City SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- Braun IndustriesManufacture370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- TennecoOil seals manufacturing314
- Van Wert County HospitalGeneral hospital208FTE
- Therapy SolutionsPhysical therapy offices202
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,514 people in all across the county; Ohio City 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 high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ohio City’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Van Wert County and the Van Wert, OH metro.
Ohio City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ohio City$171,444
- 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 Ohio City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ohio City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.