Ohio in 2018 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 2017 to 2018
Permits in 2018

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The FHFA annual house price index for Ohio increased by 5.8% from 2017 to 2018. In the same years, the index for the United States increased by 5.7%. Building permits in the state authorized 24,221 housing units in 2018. 16,329 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

The FHFA HPI® is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI® is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 2018

Counties of Ohio in 2018, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 2017 to 2018, and housing units authorized in 2018
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
Adams County	+7.2%	16	16
Allen County	+4.2%	86	76
Ashland County	+8.9%	54	54
Ashtabula County	+6.9%	114	92
Athens County	+1.0%	6	4
Auglaize County	+6.4%	110	106
Belmont County	+4.2%	115	8
Brown County	+9.4%	92	88
Butler County	+6.2%	791	694
Carroll County	+1.7%	1	1
Champaign County	+6.3%	46	46
Clark County	+5.3%	68	68
Clermont County	+6.1%	579	499
Clinton County	+7.4%	54	54
Columbiana County	+3.5%	52	19
Coshocton County	+2.2%	9	7
Crawford County	+4.4%	8	8
Cuyahoga County	+5.9%	682	644
Darke County	+4.6%	68	64
Defiance County	+6.1%	39	35
Delaware County	+4.1%	1,629	1,245
Erie County	+4.0%	71	71
Fairfield County	+6.6%	682	565
Fayette County	+11.8%	34	32
Franklin County	+7.6%	5,575	1,444
Fulton County	+2.1%	60	54
Gallia County	+4.6%	7	5
Geauga County	+3.2%	147	147
Greene County	+6.3%	589	452
Guernsey County	+3.7%	39	39
Hamilton County	+6.6%	1,473	749
Hancock County	+3.4%	126	110
Hardin County	+5.8%	13	13
Harrison County	+4.8%	0	0
Henry County	+3.3%	19	19
Highland County	+5.6%	12	9
Hocking County	+8.1%	4	2
Holmes County	+1.5%	1	1
Huron County	+3.9%	39	35
Jackson County	+5.9%	62	62
Jefferson County	+2.1%	6	6
Knox County	+4.0%	133	133
Lake County	+4.1%	409	409
Lawrence County	−0.5%	9	9
Licking County	+7.1%	261	251
Logan County	+4.9%	55	55
Lorain County	+4.9%	1,114	946
Lucas County	+4.5%	735	430
Madison County	+7.3%	135	135
Mahoning County	+4.2%	162	162
Marion County	+5.8%	35	33
Medina County	+4.1%	629	587
Meigs County	+2.9%	10	10
Mercer County	+5.5%	138	71
Miami County	+5.5%	227	217
Monroe County	+3.8%	0	0
Montgomery County	+7.1%	761	469
Morgan County	+6.0%	30	30
Morrow County	+7.4%	78	78
Muskingum County	+6.8%	33	22
Noble County	+9.1%	22	22
Ottawa County	+9.3%	168	114
Paulding County	+3.7%	33	29
Perry County	+4.4%	38	36
Pickaway County	+5.2%	175	173
Pike County	+3.1%	66	66
Portage County	+5.2%	504	364
Preble County	+10.6%	45	43
Putnam County	+3.4%	54	54
Richland County	+6.0%	80	61
Ross County	+4.7%	13	13
Sandusky County	+5.6%	44	42
Scioto County	+5.1%	4	4
Seneca County	+3.4%	26	23
Shelby County	+5.9%	53	53
Stark County	+4.6%	527	412
Summit County	+5.5%	706	647
Trumbull County	+4.0%	94	86
Tuscarawas County	+4.4%	66	48
Union County	+7.0%	863	564
Van Wert County	+7.9%	18	18
Vinton County	+0.5%	0	0
Warren County	+5.9%	1,472	1,167
Washington County	+6.1%	13	7
Wayne County	+5.6%	253	241
Williams County	+7.2%	29	29
Wood County	+5.2%	301	301
Wyandot County	+3.7%	22	22

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in Ohio by year, 1995 to 2025

20,000

40,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in Ohio, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	33,640	17,327	16,313
2024	31,411	17,791	13,620
2023	27,318	16,009	11,309
2022	30,843	17,350	13,493
2021	30,418	20,506	9,912
2020	29,686	18,352	11,334
2019	23,047	16,078	6,969
2018	24,221	16,329	7,892
2017	23,917	16,153	7,764
2016	22,816	15,221	7,595
2015	20,047	13,529	6,518
2014	19,872	12,535	7,337
2013	19,903	12,717	7,186
2012	16,905	10,894	6,011
2011	13,762	9,320	4,442
2010	13,710	10,603	3,107
2009	13,343	10,593	2,750
2008	17,666	12,873	4,793
2007	27,095	20,511	6,584
2006	34,422	27,514	6,908
2005	47,727	38,306	9,421
2004	51,695	42,543	9,152
2003	53,041	42,703	10,338
2002	51,246	39,785	11,461
2001	49,931	38,765	11,166
2000	49,745	38,013	11,732
1999	55,880	40,033	15,847
1998	48,034	36,563	11,471
1997	46,487	32,728	13,759
1996	49,280	35,719	13,561
1995	44,812	32,635	12,177

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.