Housing in Olive

A typical Olive home is worth roughly $158,000

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Typical home value

$158K

OH $249K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$990

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$1,146

OH $2,822

What kind of housing town is Olive?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

Low tax bills#28 of 1,022 in OH for the lowest property tax bills.Rent is cheap#37 in OH for the cheapest rent.Your money goes further36% below the Ohio typical home.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.9 years of income

Less than across Ohio (3.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about

$220,000

Typical Olive home $158K

That covers a typical Olive home, with $61K to spare.

The typical home, each month

$930

Loan $780Tax $100Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $60 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

Noble$172K Caldwell$185K Center$187K Enoch$194K

How Olive ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Olive’s typical property tax (0.72% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $990

Renters already here pay a median of $694, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$750

1 bedroom$760

2 bedrooms$990

3 bedrooms$1,220

4 bedrooms$1,400

23%

of households rent · OH 33%

278

renter households

21%

of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · OH 46%

22%

of the median income, for a two-bedroom

$694

median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Guernsey County, OH): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

78% of Olive households own their home

Half of Olive’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters

Own 78%Rent 23%

Ohio: 67% own.

1967

typical home built · OH 1970

$1,146

median property tax bill · OH $2,822

0.72%

of a home’s value, a year in tax · OH 1.31%

of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Next door

Olive vs. its neighbors

Olive is the least expensive of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Enoch$194K Center$187K Caldwell$185K Noble$172K Olive$158K

Compare more

Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	New homes 2025	Median income
Olive	$158K*	—	$990	—	$55,028
Noble	$172K*	—	$990	—	$46,053
Caldwell	$185K	+4.9%	$990	0	$51,208
Center	$187K*	—	$1,010	—	$88,894
Enoch	$194K*	—	$990	—	—

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. 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.