Sunbury, Ohio.
Typical home $491,036 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,738 (+1.8%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Sunbury
Sunbury’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Sunbury is in Delaware County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Big Walnut Local and Olentangy Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,390 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,349 +2%
- $482,687$491,036 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,810 +26%
- $389,226$491,036 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.
- Sunbury$2,577
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Sunbury, OH rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Sunbury, OH rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Sunbury runs $2,020/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,758 a month against $1,738 rent: a $2,577 mortgage payment, plus $655 property tax and $526 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Sunbury
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$3,758
- Renting$1,738
- Mortgage only$2,577
Property tax · $655/mo 1.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Delaware County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $526/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 Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio
Sunbury is a city of 6,614 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $108,787 a year and half less, against $133,540 across Delaware County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% 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 finance and property.
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. Sunbury is a small city in Delaware County, and its residents tend to be younger than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, though still comfortable by national standards. A four-year degree is common among adults here. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the town sees a fair amount of snow; summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in banks, insurance and property, in restaurants and hotels, or in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Sunbury are Big Walnut Local Schools, Kroger and Omega Engineering. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across Delaware County has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Alum Creek State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Columbus, where the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Columbus Museum of Art are among the best known places to visit. Sports fans can also make the longer trip to Historic Crew Stadium.
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- 2,894households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 23%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 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 19 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westerville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sunbury
- Big Walnut Local SchoolsSchool district659FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores208
- Omega EngineeringMeasuring instruments, industrial process control-type, manufacturing77
- Ohashi Technica USA ManufacturingExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing66
- The Inn at Walnut TrailRest homes without nursing care65
- Gerling & AssociatesTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis60
- Ohashi Technica USAAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers43
- SunburyMail and parcel delivery38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 606 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunbury’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 Delaware County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Sunbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunbury$491,036
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Sunbury listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Sunbury43.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sunbury15
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sunbury64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sunbury21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sunbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.