Circleville, Ohio.
Typical home $292,079 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,194 . Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Circleville
Circleville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Circleville is in Pickaway County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Circleville City, Logan Elm Local and Westfall Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,722 +3%
- $284,358$292,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,992 +38%
- $212,087$292,079 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.
- Circleville$1,533
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Circleville, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio
Circleville is a city of 13,927 people in Pickaway County. Half its households earn more than $60,296 a year and half less, against $74,040 across Pickaway County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Pickaway County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Circleville is a city in Pickaway County, and its residents are younger on the whole than you might expect of a small Ohio city. Incomes here run below the county's, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and a share of people rent. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Circleville are Berger Hospital, Circleville City Schools and Kroger. Unemployment in Pickaway County is lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Most people drive a fairly typical commute to work, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, Luthor List Mound is an archaeological site in or beside town, and A. W. Marion State Park and Stage's Pond State Nature Preserve are protected areas a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is an archaeological site, and the Columbus Museum of Art is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 5,769households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickaway County had 16,482 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 15 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Circleville weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Circleville
- Berger HospitalGeneral hospital429FTE
- Circleville City SchoolsSchool district407FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores153
- Health Care Logistics CirclevilleMedical supplies merchant wholesalers124
- Rumpke - Circleville District OfficeWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid108
- FORJAK IndustrialCommercial building construction82
- Circleville Health PartnersAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities61
- Coughlin Ford of CirclevilleAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,673 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of CirclevilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Circleville’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 Pickaway County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Circleville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Circleville$292,079
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Circleville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — 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.
- Circleville41.64%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Circleville20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Circleville67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Circleville26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Circleville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Circleville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.