Bridgeport, Ohio.
Typical home $89,142 (+3.2% in a year). Wheeling, WV-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bridgeport
Bridgeport’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bridgeport is in Belmont County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bridgeport Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$200 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,746 +3%
- $86,396$89,142 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,257 +5%
- $84,885$89,142 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.
- Bridgeport$468
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 71 years.
Typical home values in Bridgeport, OH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeport, Belmont County, Ohio
Bridgeport is a village of 1,582 people in Belmont County. Half its households earn more than $54,125 a year and half less, against $57,017 across Belmont County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Belmont County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeport is a small Ohio village in Belmont County, sitting along Wheeling Creek just across the river from Wheeling, West Virginia. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Belmont County, some of the largest workplaces are East Ohio Hospital, Walmart and the St Clairsville-Richland City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. A typical commute is fairly short, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Wheeling Creek is a river that runs through the area, and the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum is a small museum close by. A short drive away, Oglebay Park is a garden and a good place for a walk. Grave Creek Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 648households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Belmont County had 20,522 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheeling weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Belmont County
- Belmont County Government764
- State of Ohio610
- Patterson-UTI Drilling Company580
- Riesbecks Food Markets405
- American Consolidated Natural Resources389
- St. Clairsville-Richland City School District328
- East Ohio Regional Hospital300
- Martins Ferry City School District285
From Belmont County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Office of Belmont County Auditor”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bridgeport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Belmont County and the Wheeling, WV-OH metro.
Bridgeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeport$89,142
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bridgeport 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.
- Bridgeport20.11%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bridgeport22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bridgeport5
Zip codes with a Bridgeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.