Vanlue, Ohio.
Typical home $185,895 (+5.1% in a year). Findlay, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Vanlue
Vanlue’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Vanlue is in Hancock County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Vanlue Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$528 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,003 +5%
- $176,892$185,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,544 +31%
- $142,351$185,895 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.
- Vanlue$976
- 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 Vanlue, OH rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vanlue, Hancock County, Ohio
Vanlue is a village of 341 people in Hancock County. Half its households earn more than $81,875 a year and half less, against $73,141 across Hancock County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vanlue is a very small village in Hancock County, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run above the county's, and a typical home is valued at about the same level as the nation's mid-priced houses in small Ohio towns, which keeps living costs modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing and nights colder still, while July brings warm days, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work 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 in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though there are slightly fewer jobs there than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Hancock Historical Museum is a good place to learn about the area's past. Farther afield, Van Buren Lake is a reservoir and Van Buren State Park is a protected area, both suited to a day outdoors. The Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books is another museum within a longer drive.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
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 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Findlay Airport weather station, 10 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vanlue’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.
Vanlue home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vanlue$185,895
- 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 Vanlue address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vanlue — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.