Pickerington, Ohio.
Typical home $418,373 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,965 (+3.5%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Pickerington
Pickerington’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Pickerington is in Fairfield County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Canal Winchester Local and Pickerington Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,202 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,549 +1%
- $414,823$418,373 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,893 +24%
- $337,480$418,373 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.
- Pickerington$2,196
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Pickerington, OH rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pickerington, OH rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pickerington runs $1,063/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,181 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,028 a month against $1,965 rent: a $2,196 mortgage payment, plus $384 property tax and $448 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pickerington
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,028
- Renting$1,965
- Mortgage only$2,196
Property tax · $384/mo 1.10% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fairfield County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $448/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pickerington, Fairfield County, Ohio
Pickerington is a city of 23,094 people in Fairfield County. Half its households earn more than $111,833 a year and half less, against $90,966 across Fairfield County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Pickerington was 3.2% in August 2026, and Fairfield County had 1.6% 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. Pickerington is a city in Fairfield County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values and rents are on the high side, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, while July brings warm summer afternoons. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Pickerington are Pickerington Methodist Hospital, Kohl's and CSIG Shared Services Group. A good number of people work from home, and those who commute have a fairly typical drive to work. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and across Fairfield County there are slightly more jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Pickerington Ponds Metro Park is a park in or beside town, and Alum Creek and Blacklick Creek are both creeks a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Columbus Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, as is the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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- 8,420households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfield County had 48,050 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Pickerington
- Ohio Health Corporation1,694
- Pickerington Local School District1,332
- Kroger Company, Inc.371
- Roosters262
- Cracker Barrel Restaurant260
- Ohio Health Physician Group231
- JP Morgan Chase Bank228
- Wendys220
From the City of Pickerington’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Income Tax Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Pickerington’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 Fairfield County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Pickerington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pickerington$418,373
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Pickerington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is cooling.
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
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.
- Pickerington40.10%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pickerington19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pickerington165
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pickerington62
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pickerington$413,272
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pickerington100.66%
Zip codes with a Pickerington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pickerington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.