Brookside, Ohio.
Typical home $103,688 (-4.3% in a year). Wheeling, WV-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Brookside
Brookside’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Brookside 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 — +$224 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,651 -4%
- $108,339$103,688 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,453 +9%
- $95,236$103,688 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.
- Brookside$544
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Brookside, OH fell 4.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookside, Belmont County, Ohio
Brookside is a village of 538 people in Belmont County. Half its households earn more than $72,917 a year and half less, against $57,017 across Belmont County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookside is a very small village in Belmont County, Ohio, where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Belmont County, some of the largest workplaces are East Ohio Hospital, Walmart and the St Clairsville-Richland City Schools. The trip to work is short for most people, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Wheeling Creek runs in or beside town, and the Capitol Theatre and West Virginia Independence Hall, a museum, are also close by. A short drive away is Oglebay Park, a garden, and Grave Creek Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive.
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- 275households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%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, 2 miles 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Brookside’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.
Brookside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookside$103,688
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Brookside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.