Rockford, Ohio.
Typical home $227,278 (+6.8% in a year). Celina, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Rockford
Rockford’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Rockford is in Mercer County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Parkway Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$722 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,426 +7%
- $212,851$227,278 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,574 +42%
- $159,704$227,278 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.
- Rockford$1,193
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Rockford, OH rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockford, Mercer County, Ohio
Rockford is a village of 1,051 people in Mercer County. Half its households earn more than $57,833 a year and half less, against $76,782 across Mercer County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Mercer County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mercer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockford is a small village in Mercer County, Ohio, home to a modest number of people compared with most towns. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Mercer County, some of the largest workplaces are Crown Equipment Corporation Celina, which makes industrial trucks and tractors, Cooper Farms, a poultry processor, and Celina City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a typical commute is a little over the length of a short drive each way.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Grand Lake St. Marys is a large reservoir a longer drive away, and Grand Lake St. Marys State Park sits beside it. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is another longer drive away, and is one of the better known museums in this part of Ohio. Eldora Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 418households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Mercer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 20,220 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 29 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Celina Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mercer County
- Crown Equipment Corporation CelinaIndustrial trucks and tractors manufacturing1,288
- Cooper FarmsPoultry processing738
- Celina City SchoolsSchool district532FTE
- CheesemanGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload472
- Bruns Construction EnterprisesConstruction418
- Mercer County Community HospitalGeneral hospital401FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- Celina Aluminum Precision TechnologyAluminum castings, unfinished, manufacturing378
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,638 people in all across the county; Rockford has none 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockford’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 Mercer County and the Celina, OH metro.
Rockford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockford$227,278
- 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.
- Rockford12
Zip codes with a Rockford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.