Somerville, Ohio.
Typical home $368,930 (+5.5% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Somerville
Somerville is in Butler County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,110 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,336 +6%
- $349,594$368,930 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,458 +30%
- $284,472$368,930 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.
- Somerville$1,936
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Somerville, OH rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Somerville, Butler County, Ohio
Somerville, in Butler County, had 258 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Butler County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Somerville is a very small community in Butler County, Ohio, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many parts of the country, and winters are cold, with summers that turn warm. Rain and melted snow come through the year, so the seasons are clearly marked.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Butler County, large workplaces include Miami University-Oxford, Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Middletown Works and Lithko Contracting. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Hueston Woods State Park, a reservoir with parkland around it, is a short drive away, as is Highlandtown Lake. For a day out, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and the amusement park Kings Island are both a longer drive away.
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What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 163,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eaton weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Baker Concrete ConstructorsCurtain wall, precast concrete, installation4,591
- Miami University-OxfordUniversity or college3,240
- Lithko ContractingCommercial building construction3,016
- Baker Concrete ConstructionConcrete floor surfacing2,358
- Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Middletown WorksBlast furnaces2,296
- EverusElectrical construction2,138
- Lakota Local SchoolsSchool district1,802FTE
- Koch Food Plant APrepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale1,585
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 453 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 71,675 people in all across the county; Somerville has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Somerville’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 Butler County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Somerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Somerville$368,930
- 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 Somerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Somerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.