Wauseon, Ohio.
Typical home $230,572 (+2.0% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Wauseon
Wauseon’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Wauseon is in Fulton County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Wauseon Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,558 +2%
- $226,014$230,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,029 +30%
- $177,543$230,572 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.
- Wauseon$1,210
- 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 Wauseon, OH rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio
Wauseon is a city of 7,568 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $64,477 a year and half less, against $72,864 across Fulton County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Fulton County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wauseon is a small city in Fulton County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is somewhat younger than the typical American. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in government. Among the largest workplaces in Wauseon are Fulton County Health Center, a critical access hospital, Haas Door Company, a maker of metal garage doors, and Walmart. Unemployment across Fulton County has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Harrison Lake State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Oak Openings Preserve Metropark is a larger park, also a longer drive off. The Toledo Zoo is the best-known family outing nearby, and it too is a longer drive away. The Tiffin River and the Auglaize River are the nearest rivers on the list, each a longer drive from town.
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- 3,056households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 17,855 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 27 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wauseon Wtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wauseon
- Fulton County Health CenterCritical access hospital575FTE
- Haas Door CompanyGarage doors, metal, manufacturing432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
- Wauseon MachineMachine shops150
- Fulton AcquisitionStampings, metal, unfinished, manufacturing66
- Fresh EncounterSupermarkets63
- Hill Manufacturing154
- Multi CastFoundries, aluminum40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,986 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wauseon’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 Fulton County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Wauseon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wauseon$230,572
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Wauseon listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Wauseon22.05%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wauseon23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wauseon9
Zip codes with a Wauseon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wauseon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.