Brilliant, Ohio.
Typical home $83,139 (-5.8% in a year). Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Brilliant
Brilliant is in Jefferson County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$213 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,137 -6%
- $88,276$83,139 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,242 +16%
- $71,896$83,139 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.
- Brilliant$436
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Brilliant, OH fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brilliant, Jefferson County, Ohio
Brilliant, in Jefferson County, had 1,317 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brilliant is a small community in Jefferson County, Ohio, with a modest population. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the national picture. 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. Across Jefferson County, jobs fell slightly last year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Residents of Brilliant mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. A small number work from home. Some of the county's largest workplaces are Eastern Gateway Community College, Trinity Hospital Holding Company and Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Things to do. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a museum, is a short drive away. Fernwood State Forest and Castleman Run Lake Wildlife Management Area, both protected areas, are also a short drive off, with creeks and runs close by for time outdoors. Oglebay Park, known for its gardens, is a longer drive.
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- 537households
- 5%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 19,530 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheeling Ohio County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Jefferson County
- Trinity Health System1,950
- Wal-Mart Distribution Center1,003
- Titanium Metals Corporation800
- Jefferson County675
- Fransican University557
- Indian Creek Local School District360
- Steubenville City School District349
- JSW Steel340
From Jefferson County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Jefferson County Auditor”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brilliant’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Jefferson County and the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
Brilliant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brilliant$83,139
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Brilliant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brilliant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.