Pioneer, Ohio.
Typical home $179,934 (+3.8% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Pioneer
Pioneer’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Pioneer is in Williams County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the North Central Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,646 +4%
- $173,288$179,934 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,236 +35%
- $133,699$179,934 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.
- Pioneer$944
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pioneer, OH rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pioneer, Williams County, Ohio
Pioneer is a village of 1,429 people in Williams County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Williams County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williams County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pioneer is a village in Williams County, Ohio, home to a small community where most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and homes are valued at a modest level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the village sees a good deal of snow each year, while July is the warmest month and summers are comfortably warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Pioneer are North Central Local Schools, Reifel Industries, which coats metal, and Pioneer Transformer Co, which makes power transformers. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Harrison Lake State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the outdoor places. A longer drive brings you to Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, another protected area, and to the St. Joseph River. For a different kind of outing, Fun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 525households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Williams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williams County had 16,008 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montpelier weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pioneer
- North Central Local SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Reifel IndustriesMetal coatings159
- Toledo Tool and Die PioneerJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing150
- Pioneer Transformer CoPower transformers, electric, manufacturing60
- NN Metal StampingStampings, metal, unfinished, manufacturing45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 414 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 windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pioneer’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 Williams County.
Pioneer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pioneer$179,934
- 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.
- Pioneer6
Zip codes with a Pioneer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pioneer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.