West Manchester, Ohio.
Typical home $141,817 (+7.4% in a year).
Property tax and schools in West Manchester
West Manchester’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
West Manchester is in Preble County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the National Trail Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$433 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,774 +7%
- $132,043$141,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,038 +32%
- $107,779$141,817 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.
- West Manchester$744
- 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 West Manchester, OH rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Manchester, Preble County, Ohio
West Manchester is a village of 415 people in Preble County. Half its households earn more than $61,875 a year and half less, against $69,223 across Preble County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Preble County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Manchester is a small village in Preble County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and retail also common. Across Preble County, some of the largest workplaces are Henny Penny, which makes commercial cooking equipment, Neaton Auto Products, and the Eaton Community City Schools. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Swamp Creek and Lowry Run are small rivers a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Sycamore State Park, a protected area, and to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, one of the best known museums of its kind.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Preble County had 11,523 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eaton weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Preble County
- Henny PennyCooking equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing872
- Neaton Auto ProductsOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing725
- Silfex Inc. Eaton FacilitySemiconductor devices manufacturing494
- Eaton Community City SchoolsSchool district340FTE
- Pratt (Lewisburg Container)Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard283
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- Parker Hannifin Corp - TFDMetal valve and pipe manufacturing234
- Tri-County North Local SchoolsSchool district207FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,161 people in all across the county; West Manchester has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Manchester’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 Preble County.
West Manchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Manchester$141,817
- 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 West Manchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Manchester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.