Bethel, Ohio.
Typical home $260,281 (+1.6% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Bethel
Bethel’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bethel is in Clermont County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bethel-Tate Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$764 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,187 +2%
- $256,094$260,281 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,586 +27%
- $204,695$260,281 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.
- Bethel$1,366
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bethel, OH rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio
Bethel is a village of 2,620 people in Clermont County. Half its households earn more than $43,779 a year and half less, against $85,510 across Clermont County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Clermont County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethel is a village in Clermont County, Ohio, home to a small community where renters and owners live in nearly equal numbers. Household incomes sit well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical of the area. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. In Bethel itself, the largest workplaces include Bethel-Tate Local Schools, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and Bethel Save-A-Lot. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home. Unemployment across Clermont County has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. East Fork State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a place for time outdoors close to home. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the amusement park Kings Island.
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- 1,134households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clermont County had 63,011 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chilo Meldahl Locks & Dam weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bethel
- Bethel-Tate Local SchoolsSchool district231FTE
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
- Bethel Save-A-Lot24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 24 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethel’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 Clermont County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Bethel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethel$260,281
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bethel 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.
- Bethel26.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethel40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bethel16
Zip codes with a Bethel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.