Albany, Ohio.
Typical home $209,774 (+4.1% in a year). Athens, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Albany
Albany is in Meigs County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$559 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,238 +4%
- $201,537$209,774 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,442 +19%
- $176,332$209,774 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Albany$1,101
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Albany, OH rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albany, Meigs County, Ohio
Albany is a village of 917 people in Meigs County. Half its households earn more than $52,070 a year and half less, against $46,873 across Meigs County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Meigs County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meigs County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Albany is a small village in Meigs County, and most of what happens here happens at village scale. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents are living below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest time of year, and rain and melted snow fall through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Meigs County, the largest workplaces include Meigs Local Schools, Southern Local Schools and Arbors at Pomeroy. Commutes are fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is higher than a year earlier, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Lake Snowden is in or beside town, a protected area for time by the water. A short drive away are Peden Stadium and Chessa Field, a pair of stadiums for catching a game. For a longer outing, Hocking Hills State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Zaleski State Forest.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Meigs County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meigs County had 3,493 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carpenter South weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meigs County
- Meigs Local SchoolsSchool district264FTE
- Southern Local SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Eastern Local SchoolsSchool district147FTE
- Arbors at PomeroySkilled nursing facilities60
- PDK ConstructionGuardrail construction43
- Integrated Services for Behavioral HealthIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose30
- American Electric Power28
- D V Weber ConstructionExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 205 people in all across the county; Albany has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albany’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Meigs County and the Athens, OH metro.
Albany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albany$209,774
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Albany listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Albany12.88%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albany20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Albany8
Zip codes with a Albany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.