Van Buren, Ohio.
Typical home $341,615 (+3.8% in a year). Findlay, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Van Buren
Van Buren’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Van Buren is in Hancock County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Van Buren Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,001 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,574 +4%
- $329,040$341,615 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,416 +28%
- $266,198$341,615 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.
- Van Buren$1,793
- 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 Van Buren, OH rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Van Buren, Hancock County, Ohio
Van Buren is a village of 396 people in Hancock County. Half its households earn more than $87,216 a year and half less, against $73,141 across Hancock County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Hancock County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Van Buren is a very small village in Hancock County, Ohio, where nearly every home is lived in by its owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and typical home values are well up there too. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect alongside those incomes, and most people have a short drive to work. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Hancock County, some of the largest workplaces are Hearthside Food Solutions, Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center and Findlay City Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Van Buren Lake, a reservoir, and Van Buren State Park, a protected area, sit in or beside town, so the water and trails are close at hand. A short drive away are the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books and the Hancock Historical Museum, both museums. For a longer outing, Mary Jane Thurston State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 43,831 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Findlay Wpcc weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Hancock County
- Blanchard Valley Health Association3,165
- Marathon Petroleum Company LLC2,159
- Whirlpool Corporation1,930
- Hearthside Foods (fka Consolidated Biscuit)1,675
- GROB Systems, Inc.940
- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (formerly Cooper Tire & Rubber Company)895
- Findlay City School District865
- The University of Findlay548
From Hancock County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Labor Market Information Website”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Van Buren’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 Hancock County and the Findlay, OH metro.
Van Buren home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Van Buren$341,615
- 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 Van Buren address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Van Buren — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.