Powell, Ohio.
Typical home $569,567 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $2,480 (+7.9%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Powell
Powell’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Powell is in Delaware County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Olentangy Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,545 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,383 +0%
- $567,183$569,567 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,907 +22%
- $468,660$569,567 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.
- Powell$2,990
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Powell, OH rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Powell, OH rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Powell runs $1,880/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,131 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,359 a month against $2,480 rent: a $2,990 mortgage payment, plus $760 property tax and $610 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Powell
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$4,359
- Renting$2,480
- Mortgage only$2,990
Property tax · $760/mo 1.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Delaware County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $610/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 Powell, Delaware County, Ohio
Powell is a city of 14,163 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $195,495 a year and half less, against $133,540 across Delaware County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% 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. Powell is a city in Delaware County, Ohio, where households have incomes well above the county's and very few people live below the poverty line. Nearly everyone owns their home, and rentals are far less common here than elsewhere. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and most adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a mix of rain and snow through the year, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, or in banks, insurance and property. A good number work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one. Among the largest workplaces in Powell are Kroger Columbus KMA, Target and CSC Ganzhorn Powell Management Company. Delaware County has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is in or beside town, and so is Olentangy Indian Caverns, a tourist attraction. Jungle Jack's Landing, an amusement park, is also close by. For art, the Columbus Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 5,163households
- 78%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 32%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 100,816 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Ohio State Univ Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Powell
- The Ohio State University34,661
- State of Ohio23,410
- Ohio Health21,950
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.18,600
- Nationwide Children's Hospital14,242
- Nationwide11,000
- The Kroger Co.10,925
- Amazon/AWS9,262
From the City of Powell’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Franklin and Delaware County audited Financial Statements (most current available)”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of PowellRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of PowellRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of PowellRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Powell’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 Delaware County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Powell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powell$569,567
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Powell listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Powell38.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Powell10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Powell173
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Powell64
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Powell$537,103
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Powell98.91%
Zip codes with a Powell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.