Marion County home listings asked for more money in January – see the current median price here

The median home in Marion County listed for $174,944 in January, up 1.7% from the previous month's $171,944, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to January 2023, the median home list price increased 29.7% from $134,900.

The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Marion County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.marionstar.com.

Marion County's median home was 1,452 square feet, listed at $117 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 11.4% from January 2023.

Listings in Marion County moved briskly, at a median 46 days listed compared to the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 39 days on the market. Around 68 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 142.9% increase from 28 new listings in January 2023.

The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.

Across the Marion metro area, median home prices rose to $174,947, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 1,460 square feet, at a list price of $117 per square foot.

In Ohio, median home prices were $245,000, a slight decrease from December. The median Ohio home listed for sale had 1,680 square feet, with a price of $144 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $409,500, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,823 square feet, with a price of $221 per square foot.

The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.