A typical Recovery home is worth roughly $281,000
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Recovery?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
1 of Recovery’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Recovery’s homes were built before 1974.
Ohio: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A typical home costs 2.6 years of income
Less than across Ohio (3.5 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Recovery home, with $134K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $720 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Recovery’s typical property tax (0.93% 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 $970
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Darke County, OH): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
5 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in Recovery in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.8 million to build. That's 2.7 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Ohio as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Recovery has permitted 5 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Recovery vs. its neighbors
Recovery is the 3rd priciest of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recovery | $281K* | — | $970 | 5 | $107,083 |
| Gibson | $225K* | — | $970 | 4 | $85,648 |
| Granville | $295K* | — | $970 | 5 | $113,355 |
| Fort Recovery | $354K | +7% | $970 | 5 | $66,563 |
| Washington | $247K* | +6%† | $990 | 2 | $96,016 |
| Noble | — | −0.5%† | $960 | — | $57,656 |
| Butler | $250K* | +6.3%† | $990 | 5 | $68,657 |
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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Recovery buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.