Worthington, Ohio.
Typical home $480,920 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,094 . Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Worthington
Worthington’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Worthington is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Worthington City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,385 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,561 +4%
- $461,359$480,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,382 +29%
- $371,538$480,920 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.
- Worthington$2,524
- 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 Worthington, OH rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio
Worthington is a city of 14,786 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $127,382 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worthington is a city in Franklin County, a smaller city set within the Columbus area. Residents are older than in many places, and household incomes are well above the county's, with very few households living below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents sit on the higher side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Worthington are Worthington City Schools, Nationwide Children's Hospital Behavioral Health Pavilion and AAA Club Alliance Worthington. Unemployment across Franklin County is lower than a year ago, the county has added jobs, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Commutes are fairly short, and a sizeable number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, a good outing for families and visitors of any age. The Wexner Center for the Arts and the Columbus Museum of Art are both museums, also a short drive off. For time outdoors, Chadwick Arboretum is a botanical garden a short drive away.
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- 6,143households
- 73%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 23%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 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Ohio State Univ Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Worthington
- Worthington Enterprises Inc
- Worthington City Schools
- Worthington Steel Company
- Worthington Cylinder Corp
- MedVet Associates
- Diamond Innovations
- DLZ Corporation
- AAA Club Alliance
From the City of Worthington’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Finance Director's Office”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order, by payroll.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Worthington’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.
Worthington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worthington$480,920
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Worthington 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.
- Worthington33.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Worthington31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Worthington17
Zip codes with a Worthington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worthington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.