A typical Harpster home is worth about $202,000
Up 10.3% in a year, 19% below the Ohio typical home.
What kind of housing town is Harpster?
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Up 34.5% in five years
Faster than Ohio (29.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Harpster | Ohio |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $108,000 | $133,000 |
| 2018 | $111,000 | $141,000 |
| 2019 | $112,000 | $150,000 |
| 2020 | $124,000 | $158,000 |
| 2021 | $139,000 | $178,000 |
| 2022 | $153,000 | $195,000 |
| 2023 | $161,000 | $211,000 |
| 2024 | $173,000 | $224,000 |
| 2025 | $179,000 | $237,000 |
| 2026 | $192,000 | $245,000 |
| August 2026 | $202,000 | $249,000 |
A typical Harpster home worth $106K in September 2016 is worth about $202K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
97% of Harpster households own their home
Half of Harpster’s homes were built before 1938.
Ohio: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
What it takes to buy in Harpster
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That covers a typical Harpster home, with $59K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050 a month here, $230 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Ohio typical property tax (1.31% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Marion County, OH): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
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What Harpster buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.