Whitehall, Ohio.
Typical home $198,246 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,434 (+2.5%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Whitehall
Whitehall’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Whitehall is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Whitehall City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$625 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,473 +3%
- $191,773$198,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,993 +37%
- $144,253$198,246 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.
- Whitehall$1,041
- 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 Whitehall, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Whitehall, OH rose 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Whitehall runs $62/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $185 in Apr 2024.
That is $1,496 a month against $1,434 rent: a $1,041 mortgage payment, plus $243 property tax and $212 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Whitehall
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,496
- Renting$1,434
- Mortgage only$1,041
Property tax · $243/mo 1.47% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Franklin County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $212/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Whitehall, Franklin County, Ohio
Whitehall is a city of 20,127 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $51,759 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 40% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 60% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% 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 24 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. Whitehall is a city in Franklin County, built up against the eastern side of Columbus. Most homes here are rented rather than owned, a larger share of renters than across the county as a whole, and household incomes sit well below the county's. Residents tend to be younger than in many American towns, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical for the county. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Whitehall are Whitehall City Schools, FedEx and Walmart. A typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of people work from home. Across Franklin County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Columbus is close at hand, and several well-known places are a short drive away. The Columbus Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts offer galleries and exhibitions, and the Franklin Park Conservatory is a botanical garden. For time outdoors, Alum Creek is a river a short drive away, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a longer drive.
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- 8,183households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 791,805 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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 85° and lows near 65°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Port Columbus International Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whitehall
- Whitehall City SchoolsSchool district578FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services488
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters381
- THE Wasserstrom CompanyService establishment equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers251
- Rite Rug - CorporateFloor covering stores249
- Southern Glazers Wine and SpiritsWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers.239
- Wallick Properties MidwestAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities162
- TargetDiscount department stores150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,887 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of WhitehallRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whitehall’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 Franklin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Whitehall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitehall$198,246
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Whitehall 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.
- Whitehall30.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Whitehall28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Whitehall12
Zip codes with a Whitehall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitehall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.