Fairborn, Ohio Real Estate
Fairborn’s name is a portmanteau — Fairfield and Osborn, the two villages that merged in 1950 after Osborn
was relocated following the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. That merger history is still visible in the
Historic Osborn District, roughly 200 homes actually moved by mules and tractors in the early
1920s when the original town site was needed for dam construction.
A university city
Wright State University is legally within Fairborn’s borders despite its Dayton mailing
address, and it’s the city’s largest employer at over 2,000 staff, with nearly 12,000 students. That gives
Fairborn a rental and starter-home market shaped directly by university demand.
Housing stock
Fairborn’s population multiplied roughly sixfold between 1950 and 1970, so most housing outside the Osborn
District dates from that postwar expansion — solid mid-century stock, with newer development filling in since.
University-adjacent or Historic Osborn character? Fairborn genuinely offers both —
worth being specific about which you’re after.
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See actual home sale prices, price per square foot, and sales by ZIP code for Fairborn City School District, pulled monthly from county auditor records. View the Fairborn City School District market data →