Payne, Ohio.
Typical home $171,055 (+7.0% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Payne
Payne’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Payne is in Paulding County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Wayne Trace Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$517 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,161 +7%
- $159,893$171,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,842 +31%
- $130,213$171,055 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.
- Payne$898
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Payne, OH rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Payne, Paulding County, Ohio
Payne is a village of 1,192 people in Paulding County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Paulding County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Payne is a small village in Paulding County, Ohio, and its people are young for a place this size, with a median age below what you find in many small towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits at a level many families can reach. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. People in Payne work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many residents. Across Paulding County, the largest workplaces include Paulding Exempted Village Schools, Paulding County Hospital and Vancrest of Payne. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and very few people work from home, so most head out the door each morning for a drive to work.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the St. Joseph River and the Auglaize River are both a longer drive away and offer riverside scenery in the surrounding countryside. Car lovers can make the longer drive to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, and families with children can head to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, also a longer drive away.
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- 451households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Paulding County had 5,160 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paulding weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Paulding County
- Paulding Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district278FTE
- Insource TechnologiesAmplifiers, magnetic, pulse, and maser, manufacturing205
- Paulding County HospitalCritical access hospital169FTE
- Wayne Trace Local SchoolsSchool district157FTE
- Antwerp Local SchoolsSchool district146FTE
- Vancrest of PayneNursing homes102
- Paragon Tempered Glass - OhioGlass products made in a glass making plants100
- Taylor Made100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,525 people in all across the county; Payne has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Payne’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Paulding County.
Payne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Payne$171,055
- 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.
- Payne7
Zip codes with a Payne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Payne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.