Chesapeake, Ohio.
Typical home $146,192 (+4.0% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Chesapeake
Chesapeake’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Chesapeake is in Lawrence County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Chesapeake Union Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,616 +4%
- $140,577$146,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,814 +21%
- $120,378$146,192 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.
- Chesapeake$767
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Chesapeake, OH rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chesapeake, Lawrence County, Ohio
Chesapeake is a village of 765 people in Lawrence County. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chesapeake is a small village in Lawrence County, Ohio, with a population that keeps it a close-knit place where people are likely to know one another. Household incomes in the county sit below the national picture, and homes here are priced on the modest side. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, while rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing many. A smaller number of adults hold a four-year degree, and only a few work from home. Across Lawrence County, the larger workplaces include Vertiv, Walmart and the Ironton City School District, though unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Symmes Creek runs in or beside town, and the Huntington Museum of Art is close by as well. A short drive away, Camden Park is an amusement park, and the Guyandotte River offers a stretch of water for those who like to be near a river. For a longer outing, Wayne National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 13,984 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntington Swg Pl weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- VertivAir conditioning equipment except motor vehicle manufacturing503
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- McNationalDrydocks, floating235
- Ironton City School DistrictSchool district233FTE
- Rock Hill Local SchoolsSchool district223FTE
- South Point Local SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Necco Inc6Youth guidance organizations189
- Dawson-Bryant Local SchoolsSchool district186FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,182 people in all across the county; Chesapeake has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Chesapeake’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 Lawrence County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Chesapeake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chesapeake$146,192
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Chesapeake 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.
- Chesapeake28.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chesapeake27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chesapeake9
Zip codes with a Chesapeake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chesapeake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.