Willshire, Ohio.
Typical home $184,062 (+4.2% in a year). Van Wert, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Willshire
Willshire’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Willshire is in Van Wert County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Parkway Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$609 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,383 +4%
- $176,680$184,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,617 +40%
- $131,445$184,062 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.
- Willshire$966
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Willshire, OH rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willshire, Van Wert County, Ohio
Willshire is a village of 405 people in Van Wert County. Unemployment in Van Wert County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Wert County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willshire is a very small village on the Ohio side of the Indiana line, the sort of place where residents are likely to know one another by name. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; rain and melted snow fall throughout the year.
Work. Most people who live in Willshire work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and only a small share work from home. Across Van Wert County, the largest workplaces include Danfoss Power Solutions II, which makes hydraulic hose fittings and other fluid power products, Cooper Farms, a poultry processor, and Van Wert City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, and it takes a longer drive to reach it. Grand Lake St. Marys is a large reservoir with a state park of the same name, and Ouabache State Park is a protected area that is also a longer drive away. For a day among exhibits, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art is a museum in the same longer-drive range.
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- 146households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Van Wert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Wert County had 11,050 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Berne Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Wert County
- Danfoss Power Solutions IIHydraulic hose fittings, fluid power, manufacturing823
- Cooper FarmsPoultry processing714
- Van Wert City SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- Braun IndustriesManufacture370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- TennecoOil seals manufacturing314
- Van Wert County HospitalGeneral hospital208FTE
- Therapy SolutionsPhysical therapy offices202
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,514 people in all across the county; Willshire has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Willshire’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 Van Wert County and the Van Wert, OH metro.
Willshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willshire$184,062
- 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 Willshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.