West Milton, Ohio.
Typical home $236,091 (+2.8% in a year). Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in West Milton
West Milton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
West Milton is in Miami County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Milton-Union Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$696 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,483 +3%
- $229,608$236,091 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,037 +33%
- $177,054$236,091 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 Milton$1,239
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in West Milton, OH rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Milton, Miami County, Ohio
West Milton is a village of 4,697 people in Miami County. Half its households earn more than $62,885 a year and half less, against $76,817 across Miami County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Miami County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Milton is a village in Miami County, Ohio, home to a small community of residents. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households than across the county live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and 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 fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Miami County, some of the largest workplaces are Clopay, which makes garage doors, Conagra Brands, a frozen food manufacturer, and Upper Valley Medical Center, a general hospital. Many people spend a fair stretch of the day getting to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Dayton area, a longer drive away, has several places worth the trip. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the best known, and the Dayton Art Institute is another museum nearby. For time outdoors, Sycamore State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,052households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Miami County had 41,783 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 25 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dayton International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Miami County
- Clopay Bldg./Products1,537
- ConAgra995
- Upper Valley Medical Center932
- F & P America Mfg880
- Miami County813
- Troy City Schools523
- Kettering Health507
- Piqua City Schools475
From Miami County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “County Auditor's Office”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Milton’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 Miami County and the Dayton-Kettering, OH metro.
West Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Milton$236,091
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 West Milton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- West Milton30.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Milton22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Milton11
Zip codes with a West Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.