Ohio · FIPS 39161
Van Wert ZIP codes — Van Wert County, Ohio
Quick answer
Van Wert County is home to 28,824 residents with a median household income of $65,344 and a median home value of $137,300. 80.6% of households own their home and 9.5% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Van Wert ZIP code? 8 ZIP code areas fall inside Van Wert County, Ohio, listed in full below.
- Population
- 28,824Van Wert County residents
- Median household income
- $65,344Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $137,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $792Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 41.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 80.6%Owner-occupied households
Van Wert County, OH in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Van Wert County is a small city in Ohio, with 28,824 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 41.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Van Wert County earn a median of $65,344 a year, 16.8% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 9.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Van Wert County is valued at $137,300, 54.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $792 a month, 43.7% below the national figure, or roughly $9,504 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 80.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.
ZIP codes in Van Wert County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Van Wert County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Ohio
Largest Census places in Ohio by population.
- Columbus city 906,480
- Cleveland city 367,523
- Cincinnati city 309,595
- Toledo city 268,461
- Akron city 189,526
- Dayton city 136,741
- Parma city 80,131
- Canton city 70,105
- Lorain city 65,207
- Hamilton city 63,124
- Youngstown city 59,605
- Springfield city 58,410
Nearby counties
Other counties in Ohio.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Van Wert County?
- Van Wert County has 28,824 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Van Wert County?
- Median household income in Van Wert County is $65,344 a year, 16.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Van Wert County?
- Median gross rent is $792 a month and the median home value is $137,300, so rent absorbs about 14.5% of median household income.
- Is Van Wert County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Van Wert County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Van Wert County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.