Orient, Ohio.
. Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Orient
Orient is in Pickaway County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
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$1,291
- United States$1,922
Living in Orient, Pickaway County, Ohio
Orient, in Pickaway County, had 246 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $53,182 a year and half less, against $74,040 across Pickaway County. Unemployment in Pickaway County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pickaway County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orient is a very small community in Pickaway County, Ohio, and a quiet one. Household incomes in town run below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Pickaway County, some of the largest workplaces are Berger Hospital, Teays Valley Local Schools and Sofidel, a maker of paper towels. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Battelle Darby Creek Metropolitan Park is a park a short drive away, the nearest of the places worth knowing about. A longer drive brings you to Columbus, with the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the Columbus Museum of Art and the Ohio Theatre. The Olentangy River is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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What people in Pickaway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickaway County had 16,482 jobs in 2025, 2.4% 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, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pickaway County
- Bath Body Works DC9General warehousing and storage667
- Teays Valley Local SchoolsSchool district631FTE
- SofidelPaper towels made in paper mills586
- Berger HospitalGeneral hospital429FTE
- EKC Advanced Electronics USAResins, plastics, manufacturing420
- Logan Elm Local SchoolsSchool district418FTE
- Circleville City SchoolsSchool district407FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,080 people in all across the county; Orient 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orient’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 Pickaway County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Orient home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Orient listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Orient33.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orient25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orient11
Zip codes with a Orient address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orient — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.