Market Trends: 2/21/2012
Grove City
Market Snapshot
Total Properties Listed:
457
Month-Over-Month Change: -1.93%
Average List Price:
$159,970
Month-Over-Month Change: +.61%
Median List Price:
$139,999
Month-Over-Month Change: +.07%
Typical Property
Single-Family Home
3.25 Bedrooms
2.2 Baths
$159,970 Average List Price
$83/SqFt Average Price per SqFt.
Average Price by Bedrooms:
1 Bedroom:
$80,000
2 Bedrooms:
$109,359
3 Bedrooms:
$147,653
4 Bedrooms:
$192,389
5 Bedrooms:
$255,277
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About Grove City
Grove City is a self-made community created from humble pioneer origins. As the 19th century began, the area where Grove City sits today was, simply put, a wilderness filled with oak, beech, maple, walnut, dogwood and other trees. There was not a road or bridge to grace this land when Ohio became a state in 1803, nor were there any in 1815 when Jackson Township was carved from Franklin Township.
Grove City's first settler, Hugh Grant, operated a gristmill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania around the turn of the 18th century. Grant was known to transport his excess goods down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to sell and would return to Pittsburgh on foot. Presumably, on one of these trips he walked through the Scioto Valley region and liked what he saw. He purchased land in 1803 in the area that would become Grove City and returned with his wife Catharine to start a new life. They were the first European settlers in the area.
Grove City's founder, William F. Breck, visited the area with an eye for farming. He bought 15.25 acres of the farm owned by Hugh Grant, Jr., son of the first settler in Jackson Township, then added 300 more acres west of Broadway intending to work the land. Breck's original plan changed when he realized the potential for growth since Harrisburg Turnpike passed through the area to the state capital. Breck envisioned a new village complete with a school, church, stores, blacksmith and carpenter shops. Soon, Breck formed a commission with George Weygandt, William Sibray and Jeremiah Smith and platted the village on the east side of Broadway. By December of 1853, the newly formed (but not yet incorporated) village of Grove City had 50 residents. The town founders named the village for the remaining groves of trees left standing after their initial clearing.
By 1930, Grove City boasted of a population of 1,550 people. In the early 1960s, Interstate-71 was built followed a few years later by Interstate-270. Grove City was now at the foot of two major interstate highways, and many businesses found root in what used to be farm fields.
Today, Grove City is a premier central Ohio community located in southwestern Franklin County. As a suburb of Ohio's capital city of Columbus, residents and businesses enjoy an exceptional quality of life: all of the conveniences of metropolitan living coupled with the comforts of our unique, small-town feel.