Muirfield Village Homes Sell in Four Days at $775K Median, New Data Shows

Muirfield Village homes are selling in about the time it takes to get through a workweek. Through September 14, 51 homes had closed in Dublin's Muirfield Village at a median sale price of $775,000 and a median of four days on market, according to a September 17 neighborhood analysis by Better Home Strategy.

The year-to-date closed sales spanned from $511,000 at the low end to $1,500,000 at the top, a spread that runs from what passes for entry-level in the neighborhood to the upper reaches of Dublin's luxury market. At the time of the analysis, 12 homes were listed active for sale.

A four-day median means a Muirfield listing typically goes up on a Monday and is spoken for before the weekend. It leaves little time for inspections or competing offers. The pace is roughly half the seven days reported citywide, and far faster than the 34 days reported for Dublin's 43016 ZIP code.

A market moving in days

Muirfield is not an island. Better Home Strategy's comparison table puts its $775,000 median sale price roughly 40% above the all-Dublin median of $555,500. Other trackers capture the same neighborhood at different moments: Redfin recorded a $745,000 median sale price over the three months ending August 2026 with an average 37 days on market, EffectiveAgents' July 2026 MLS snapshot put the median at $775,000 with 36 days on market, and Realtor.com showed a median listing price around $758,000 with about 39 days on market. The price figures converge in the mid-$700,000s, while the days-on-market numbers range from four in the year-to-date data to roughly 36 to 39 in the three-month and listing snapshots.

Dublin as a whole is expensive and still rising. Zillow pegs the typical Dublin home value at $564,896 as of August 2026, up 1.5% over the past year, with homes going pending in around 10 days. Resideline reports a $630,000 median sold price over the last six months on 479 closed sales, with the middle half of sales between $520,000 and $760,000. Realtor.com lists a median listing price around $590,100. Dublin's recent closed-sale average of $552,981 runs about 58% above the central Ohio median and nearly double Ohio's statewide median of $285,000. The figures differ because they measure different things: median sale price over different periods, typical home value, listing price, and average closed-sale price. All of it sits far above the rest of central Ohio, where the July 2026 median sales price was $350,000 across more than 3,000 closed sales — less than half of Muirfield's median.

Who the pace prices out

The people who make Dublin run are increasingly doing the math and coming up short. Dublin City Schools' Board of Education approved a 2.25% base pay increase for teachers and support staff, setting the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree and no experience at $56,492 beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, with step increases reaching $100,565 at 18 years. Support staff such as bus drivers, mechanics, and cooks received the same 2.25% increase, and nationally teachers earn about 5% less than they did a decade ago after adjusting for inflation.

Washington Township Fire Department, which serves Dublin, posts a starting hourly wage of $19.94 for EMT-B or Firefighter I and $21.79 for Paramedic, rising after one year to $22.19 and $25.18 respectively — roughly $41,000 to $52,000 a year at full-time hours.

One estimate holds that a household needs roughly $123,000 in annual income to buy a median-priced Dublin home under standard financing — a 30-year fixed mortgage with 20% down and a 28% front-end debt-to-income rule — and that figure is based on a $535,000 median price. At Resideline's higher $630,000 median sold price, the math gets steeper: 20% down is a $126,000 down payment on a $504,000 loan, pushing the required income above $123,000.

Against those numbers, a starting Dublin teacher at $56,492 or a first-year firefighter in the low-$40,000s cannot carry a median Dublin mortgage on their own. Even Dublin's entry-level submarkets are a stretch: ZIP code 43016 shows a $469,000 median sale price, and the Riverside neighborhood lists a median around $418,000.

Dublin's median household income of $155,282, from the 2019-2023 Census estimate, sits above the income needed for a median home — which is why the market keeps clearing. But that figure describes the people who already live and buy here, not the teachers, first responders, and young families trying to get in.

The consequence is already visible in who sleeps in Dublin at night. Dublin's 2023 Housing Study and Strategy found that 92.6% of Dublin workers lived outside the city, and more than 90% of the city's roughly 48,000 workers commute in from elsewhere, according to reporting on the study. The same study cited a $500,000 median home sale price in Dublin — a figure since eclipsed by the $630,000 six-month median and the $775,000 Muirfield median, meaning the gap between what workers earn and what Dublin homes cost has widened since the study was done.

What's being done

The data poses a question the numbers alone cannot answer: a four-day, $775,000 market is plainly good for sellers, but it is not self-evidently a healthy one for a community whose teachers, first responders, and young families increasingly cannot buy into it.

One concrete response is All In Dublin, a proposed 75-unit inclusive affordable housing development at Dublin Center Drive and West Dublin-Granville Road, with units targeted across 30% to 80% of Area Median Income — including 19 units for adults with disabilities at 30% AMI, 37 units at 60% AMI, and 19 units at 80% AMI — in a four-story building. The most current timeline has construction expected to start in late 2026 with move-in in 2028, a slip from earlier projections of a summer 2026 start and fall 2027 opening — meaning the first units are still roughly two years from housing anyone.

At the state level, Ohio awarded $14 million in grants to support workforce housing projects across 10 counties, underscoring that the affordability squeeze is regional, not a local quirk.

The question the data raises is whether a market this fast and this expensive is the same thing as a healthy one — and whether 75 units arriving in 2028 can keep pace with a neighborhood where 51 homes just sold in four days at $775,000.