Bellville, Ohio.
Typical home $283,700 (+6.0% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bellville
Bellville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bellville is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Clear Fork Valley Local and Lexington Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$897 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,114 +6%
- $267,586$283,700 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,156 +39%
- $204,545$283,700 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.
- Bellville$1,489
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Bellville, OH rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellville, Richland County, Ohio
Bellville is a village of 1,963 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $67,396 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bellville is a small village in Richland County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, though some residents still live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in Bellville are Clear Fork Valley Local Schools, the pump maker Gorman-Rupp Industries and the supermarket Healthy Generations. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home. Across Richland County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Malabar Farm State Park is a protected area, and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a race track. Clear Fork Reservoir is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Mohican State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 839households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield West weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bellville
- Clear Fork Valley Local SchoolsSchool district291FTE
- Gorman-Rupp IndustriesPumps, industrial and commercial-type, general purpose, manufacturing47
- Healthy GenerationsSupermarkets35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellville’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Bellville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellville$283,700
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bellville 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.
- Bellville27.22%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bellville23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bellville10
Zip codes with a Bellville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.