Wayne, Ohio.
Typical home $174,895 (+7.5% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Wayne
Wayne’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Wayne is in Wood County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Elmwood Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,164 +7%
- $162,731$174,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,423 +31%
- $133,471$174,895 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.
- Wayne$918
- 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 Wayne, OH rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wayne, Wood County, Ohio
Wayne is a village of 841 people in Wood County. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wood 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wayne is a small village in Wood County, Ohio, with a younger population than most places, so the community skews toward working-age adults and families. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and homes are valued below what is typical for much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and restaurants or hotels. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, First Solar's Perrysburg plants and Bowling Green State University. The typical commute is a long one, and hardly anyone works from home. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than a year ago.
Things to do. The Portage River and the Wood County Museum are both a short drive away, and Doyt Perry Stadium is close too, home to college football. For a bigger outing, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Zoo are a longer drive away. Winters bring a fair amount of snow, so the colder months suit indoor outings like the museums best.
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- 369households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Wood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 74,868 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 21 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bowling Green Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wood County
- Amazon4,000
- Bowling Green State University2,511
- First Solar2,500
- FedEx Ground2,000
- Magna International2,000
- Owens Community College1,104
- Wood Co Hospital960
- Wood County884
From Wood County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Wood County Economic Development Commission Ohio Labor Market Informer”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wayne’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 Wood County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Wayne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wayne$174,895
- 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 Wayne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wayne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.