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The median home value in Bowling Green, OH is $269,081 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.6% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$269,081
Year-over-Year
+2.6%
Population
30,287
Bowling Green ranks #88 of 212 Ohio cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 8.4% above the state's city median of $248,312. It sits in Wood County, where the county-wide median is $247,279.
Median household income in Bowling Green is $45,154, so the typical home value is about 6.0× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Bowling Green police recorded a violent crime rate of 69 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 958 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Bowling Green, that value is $269,081. That's up 2.6% from a year earlier. It is about 8.4% above the typical Ohio city tracked here.
Homes in Bowling Green are more expensive than Wood County as a whole, where the median is $247,279 — a difference of about 8.8%.
Median household income here is $45,154, so the typical home value is about 6.0× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Bowling Green police reported 69 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 30,287. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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