Centerville is one of the oldest towns in the Miami Valley and one of the newest cities. Aaron Nutt, Benjamin Archer and Benjamin Robbins surveyed it in February 1796, and the old center at Main and Franklin streets still has what is described as the largest collection of early stone houses in Ohio. But it stayed a village of a few hundred people for most of 150 years: 827 residents in 1950, then 3,490 in 1960, 10,333 in 1970 and 18,886 in 1980. It became a city on 2 December 1968, and Washington Township still surrounds it.
Sealcoating has an exact price on the instant price page, and paving shows a range on the paving price page.
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2024 five year estimates, says the median Centerville home was built in 1977. The 1970s are the biggest decade by far at 29.4 percent, followed by the 1960s at 18.8 and the 1980s at 13.3. What sets Centerville apart from its neighbors is the mix: only 55.6 percent of homes are single family detached, 13 percent are attached townhouses and condominiums, and another 17.3 percent sit in buildings of five to nineteen units. Owners occupy 67 percent of homes, and the median value is $287,200.
That means a lot of Centerville asphalt is shared: condominium courts, townhouse drives that run together, and private lanes looked after by an association rather than one owner. Those jobs are decided by a board and often done in sections. The HOA and property manager page covers how that works.
A single family drive from Centerville's boom decade is around fifty years old. Some are original, many have had one overlay, and the condition underneath varies a lot from street to street. The way to decide is the base, not the color:
There is a $2,500 minimum on paving. We call first, then look at the base in person before a written number. See your paving range by tracing the area.
A useful yardstick. Centerville publishes the specification it uses for a residential asphalt driveway, item C441: at least four inches of asphalt placed in two layers, over up to four inches of ODOT Item 304 crushed limestone, with an ODOT Item 441 mix and no slag allowed. Whoever you hire, it is a fair question to ask how their proposed thickness and base compare with what the city itself specifies.
Centerville's public right-of-way page is clearer than most about where the line falls. A typical residential street sits in a 50 foot wide right-of-way with a 28 foot street, which leaves about 11 feet on each side for sidewalk, utilities, tree lawn and signs. Where there is no sidewalk, the city says to measure ten feet back from the curb to find the line. Anything on the street side of it is public right-of-way, even though owners are expected to maintain it.
The page does not address sealing or resurfacing on the private side of the line. An address in Washington Township outside the city limits is not under Centerville's permit at all, so the first step there is checking who owns the road in front of the house. Apron work is taken on only with a paving contractor that meets the city's insurance and bond terms.
Most single family drives here that have been looked after need sealing, not paving. It is priced per square foot with a $300 minimum, the crack filling is included, and tracing the drive on the instant price map gives the exact figure. For a condominium court or a run of townhouse drives, a site visit and a written scope are the better route.
On a typical Centerville street it is the strip about 11 feet back from the street edge. With no sidewalk, the city's rule of thumb is ten feet back from the curb.
That depends on your association's rules. Many own the drives in common and decide work as a board. We can quote either way.
The work is the same. The permit for anything at the street comes from whoever owns that road, which we check for your address.
Centerville is in our Montgomery County area. Close by: Kettering to the north and Springboro to the south west.
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Sources: City of Centerville public right-of-way; Centerville C441 asphalt concrete specification; Centerville on Wikipedia; Census ACS 2024 5 year, tables B25035, B25034, B25003, B25024 and B25077, via Census Reporter.
