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Housing in New Bavaria

A typical New Bavaria home is worth about $204,000

Up 5.7% in a year, 18% below the Ohio typical home.

Typical home value
$204K
▲ 5.7% in a year · OH $249K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,030
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is New Bavaria?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in New Bavaria

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You could afford about
$261,000
Typical New Bavaria home $204K

That covers a typical New Bavaria home, with $58K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,290
Loan $1,010Tax $220Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030 a month here, $260 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.

Price trend

Up 27.5% in five years

About the same pace as Ohio (29.2%).

New BavariaOhio
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryNew BavariaOhio
2018$113,000$141,000
2019$120,000$150,000
2020$124,000$158,000
2021$145,000$178,000
2022$161,000$195,000
2023$163,000$211,000
2024$171,000$224,000
2025$187,000$237,000
2026$195,000$245,000
August 2026$204,000$249,000
Then & now

A typical New Bavaria home worth $108K in February 2017 is worth about $204K today.

+$96K
+5.7%
past year
+27.5%
past 5 years
+89.3%
since 2017

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$790
1 bedroom$800
2 bedrooms$1,030
3 bedrooms$1,300
4 bedrooms$1,550

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Defiance 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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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.

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