Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Typical home $204,218 (+3.9% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Upper Sandusky
Upper Sandusky’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Upper Sandusky is in Wyandot County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$593 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,702 +4%
- $196,516$204,218 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,627 +27%
- $160,590$204,218 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.
- Upper Sandusky$1,072
- 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 Upper Sandusky, OH rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio
Upper Sandusky is a city of 6,698 people in Wyandot County. Half its households earn more than $67,071 a year and half less, against $69,768 across Wyandot County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Wyandot County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Upper Sandusky is a small city and the seat of Wyandot County, with a median age somewhat above the middle of the country's range. Incomes run a little below the county's as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and summers pleasantly warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with restaurants and hotels close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in Upper Sandusky are Prospira America, a maker of rubber goods, Wyandot Memorial Hospital, and Custom Glass Solutions. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Broken Sword Creek is a river a short drive away. Van Buren State Park, a protected area, and Van Buren Lake, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away, and the Palace Theatre is a longer drive too.
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- 2,874households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyandot County had 10,036 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Upper Sandusky weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Upper Sandusky
- Prospira AmericaMechanical rubber goods manufacturing491
- Wyandot Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital460FTE
- Custom Glass Solutions Upper SanduskySafety glass made from purchased glass280
- Upper Sandusky Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district268FTE
- TransglobalFlatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing225
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters205
- Insteel Wire Products OHWWelded iron or steel wire fabric made in wire drawing plants76
- Kimmel Corporation-Upper SanduskyClean room apparel supply services56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,531 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of Upper SanduskyRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Upper Sandusky’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 Wyandot County.
Upper Sandusky home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Upper Sandusky$204,218
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Upper Sandusky listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Upper Sandusky18.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Upper Sandusky36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Upper Sandusky12
Zip codes with a Upper Sandusky address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Upper Sandusky — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.