Plain City, Ohio.
Typical home $540,511 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,919 (+0.0%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Plain City
Plain City’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Plain City is in Madison County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Jonathan Alder Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,494 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,581 +1%
- $536,929$540,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,303 +22%
- $442,208$540,511 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.
- Plain City$2,837
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Plain City, OH rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Plain City, OH rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Plain City runs $1,954/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,873 a month against $1,919 rent: a $2,837 mortgage payment, plus $458 property tax and $579 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Plain City
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$3,873
- Renting$1,919
- Mortgage only$2,837
Property tax · $458/mo 1.02% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Madison County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $579/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 Plain City, Madison County, Ohio
Plain City is a village of 4,065 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $117,972 a year and half less, against $87,045 across Madison County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Plain City is a village in Madison County, small enough that most people live in homes they own. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Residents are younger on average than in many Ohio communities, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and wholesale. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, Target and Medline Industries. The commute to work is a fairly typical one, and a noticeable number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a short drive away and is one of the better known attractions in the region. A longer drive brings you to the Columbus Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts, museums for an afternoon indoors. Winters here are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so it helps to plan around the season.
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- 1,547households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 24,269 jobs in 2025, 2.8% 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 workplaces in Madison County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,765
- TargetDiscount department stores1,088
- Stanley Electric U.S Co Inc - ALPAutomotive lighting fixtures manufacturing1,074
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services713
- Jefferson IndustriesJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing711
- Medline IndustriesWholesale distribution of medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies641
- Torrid LLC (2)General warehousing and storage565
- StaplesGeneral warehousing and storage480
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,693 people in all across the county; Plain City has one of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Plain City’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 Madison County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Plain City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plain City$540,511
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Plain City listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 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.
- Plain City42.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Plain City23
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plain City98
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plain City26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Plain City$570,792
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Plain City98.43%
Zip codes with a Plain City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plain City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.