Scott, Ohio.
Typical home $143,433 (+7.0% in a year). Van Wert, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Scott
Scott’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Scott is in Van Wert County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Wayne Trace Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$432 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,400 +7%
- $134,033$143,433 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,384 +29%
- $111,049$143,433 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.
- Scott$753
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Scott, OH rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scott, Van Wert County, Ohio
Scott is a village of 242 people in Van Wert County. Half its households earn more than $44,712 a year and half less, against $67,917 across Van Wert County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Van Wert County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Wert 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scott is a very small village in Van Wert County, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days and the year is wet enough to keep the surrounding fields green.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Van Wert County, the largest workplaces include Danfoss Power Solutions II, which makes hydraulic fittings, Cooper Farms, a poultry processor, and Van Wert City Schools. Very few people in Scott work from home, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The nearest outings are a longer drive away. Independence Dam State Park is a protected area along the Maumee, and the Blanchard River is one of several rivers in the area that suit time near the water. For history, Fort Defiance is a fort site, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art offers an indoor afternoon, also a longer drive away.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Van Wert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Wert County had 11,050 jobs in 2025, 4.1% 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 85° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paulding weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Wert County
- Danfoss Power Solutions IIHydraulic hose fittings, fluid power, manufacturing823
- Cooper FarmsPoultry processing714
- Van Wert City SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- Braun IndustriesManufacture370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- TennecoOil seals manufacturing314
- Van Wert County HospitalGeneral hospital208FTE
- Therapy SolutionsPhysical therapy offices202
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,514 people in all across the county; Scott 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of ScottRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scott’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 Van Wert County and the Van Wert, OH metro.
Scott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scott$143,433
- 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.
Zip codes with a Scott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.