Ostrander, Ohio.
Typical home $505,594 (+2.4% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ostrander
Ostrander’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ostrander is in Delaware County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Buckeye Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,463 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,681 +2%
- $493,913$505,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,054 +28%
- $394,540$505,594 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.
- Ostrander$2,654
- 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 Ostrander, OH rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ostrander, Delaware County, Ohio
Ostrander is a village of 1,094 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $159,375 a year and half less, against $133,540 across Delaware County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ostrander is a small village in Delaware County, Ohio, and a young one by the measure of its residents' ages, with a median age younger than in many small towns. Nearly everyone here owns their home, and incomes run well above the county's, which is itself a comfortable one. Few households live below the poverty line, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm in July, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in banks, insurance and property, manufacturing, and shops. Across Delaware County, the largest workplaces include Olentangy Local Schools, DHL Supply Chain and Mettler-Toledo. The commute is a fairly long one for many, and a good share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Delaware State Park is a short drive away and is a protected area for time outdoors, and Bokes Creek, a river, is also close by. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a short drive away too, and Olentangy Indian Caverns is a nearby tourist attraction. For museums and big-stadium events, Columbus is a longer drive.
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- 291households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 100,816 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marysville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Delaware County
- J. P. Morgan Chase and Co.12,400
- Olentangy Local School District3,190
- Kroger Company1,487
- Delaware County1,298
- Mettler Toledo1,070
- Delaware City School District1,020
- Elevance Health, formerly Anthem899
- Ohio Health/Grady Memorial Hospital815
From Delaware County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Local Companies Columbus Business First Columbus Region County Profiles”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ostrander’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 Delaware County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Ostrander home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ostrander$505,594
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ostrander13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ostrander5
Zip codes with a Ostrander address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ostrander — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.