Waldo, Ohio.
Typical home $293,007 (+5.4% in a year). Marion, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Waldo
Waldo’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Waldo is in Marion County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the River Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$896 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,106 +5%
- $277,901$293,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,890 +37%
- $214,117$293,007 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.
- Waldo$1,538
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Waldo, OH rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waldo, Marion County, Ohio
Waldo is a village of 326 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $64,519 a year and half less, against $59,371 across Marion County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waldo is a very small village in Marion County, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Household incomes run above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically worth a good deal, and a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow come in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Whirlpool, which makes household laundry equipment, Marion General Hospital, and Marion City Schools. Very few people in Waldo work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Delaware State Park, a protected area, and the Little Scioto River are both a short drive away. The Palace Theatre is also a short drive away for an evening out. Farther afield, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a longer drive and makes a good day trip.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 23,441 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more 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 62°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marion Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Marion County
- Whirlpool Corporation2,085
- OhioHealth Marion General Hospital1,871
- Marion City School District706
- Cornerstone Building Brands/Silverline Windows600
- Marion County Government480
- Marion Correctional Institution393
- US Yachiyo, Inc.389
- Wyandot, Inc.370
From Marion County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Marion County Chamber of Commerce Marion County Job and Family Services”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waldo’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 Marion County and the Marion, OH metro.
Waldo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waldo$293,007
- 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 Waldo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waldo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.