Trenton, Ohio.
Typical home $281,269 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $2,180 . Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Trenton
Trenton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Trenton is in Butler County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Edgewood City and Madison Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,899 +2%
- $275,371$281,269 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,736 +30%
- $215,534$281,269 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.
- Trenton$1,476
- 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 Trenton, OH rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trenton, Butler County, Ohio
Trenton is a city of 13,021 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $80,635 a year and half less, against $81,590 across Butler County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trenton is a city in Butler County, Ohio, with a fairly young population compared with many places older homeowners may know. Most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is steady through the year, falling as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Miami University-Oxford, Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Middletown Works and Lithko Contracting. Commutes are on the long side, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The better-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. Kings Island is an amusement park, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is a zoo, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force is a museum. Together they offer a day out for families, visitors and anyone interested in aviation history.
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- 4,768households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamilton Butler County Regional Airport weather station, 8 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; Trenton has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trenton’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 Butler County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Trenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trenton$281,269
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Trenton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 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.
- Trenton35.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Trenton12
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trenton56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Trenton23
Zip codes with a Trenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.