Pandora, Ohio.
Typical home $240,324 (+7.0% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Pandora
Pandora’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Pandora is in Putnam County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Pandora-Gilboa Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$729 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,628 +7%
- $224,696$240,324 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,683 +41%
- $170,641$240,324 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.
- Pandora$1,261
- 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 Pandora, OH rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pandora, Putnam County, Ohio
Pandora is a village of 1,204 people in Putnam County. Half its households earn more than $64,942 a year and half less, against $84,928 across Putnam County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Putnam County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pandora is a small village in Putnam County, Ohio, and most of its people know one another by name. Household incomes here run below the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Homes are valued at a typical level for a small Ohio village, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many larger towns.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Pandora itself are Pandora-Gilboa Local Schools, Unarco Material Handling and Franklin Pharmacy. Unemployment across Putnam County is low and has edged lower than a year ago, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Riley Creek, a stream, is a short drive away, and the Blanchard River is a longer drive off for time on the water. For a day out, Van Buren State Park and its reservoir lake are a longer drive away. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is also a longer drive away and suits a day trip. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest.
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- 630households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 12,444 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pandora weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pandora
- Pandora-Gilboa Local SchoolsSchool district162FTE
- Unarco Material Handling LLC PandoraStore display fixtures manufacturing81
- Franklin PharmacyPharmacies54
- Advanced Drainage SystemsRecyclable material merchant wholesalers48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 183 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pandora’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 Putnam County.
Pandora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pandora$240,324
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pandora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pandora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.