Glouster, Ohio.
Typical home $66,717 (-13.0% in a year). Athens, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Glouster
Glouster’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Glouster is in Athens County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Trimble Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$175 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,995 -13%
- $76,711$66,717 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,965 +20%
- $55,751$66,717 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.
- Glouster$350
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Glouster, OH fell 13.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glouster, Athens County, Ohio
Glouster is a village of 1,659 people in Athens County. Half its households earn more than $38,375 a year and half less, against $56,001 across Athens County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Athens County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Athens County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glouster is a small village in Athens County, in the hill country of southeastern Ohio. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most places would expect. Most households own their homes, and homes cost far less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying just above freezing, and snow falls through the season. Summers are warm, July is the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents of Glouster work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Athens County, the largest workplaces include Ohio University, Athens City Schools and Obleness Memorial Hospital. Few adults in the village hold a four-year degree, a good share of people commute a good way to work, and relatively few work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Burr Oak State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Monday Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hocking Hills State Park is a longer drive away and is among the best-known protected areas in this part of Ohio. Together they offer woods, water and open air within reach of the village.
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- 623households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Athens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Athens County had 21,434 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens Ou weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Athens County
- Ohio University3,683
- Athens County Government582
- City of Athens402
- Athens City Bd of Ed361
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc334
- Appalachian Behavorial Health Center272
- Kroger of Athens243
- Hocking College209
From Athens County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Source: Calls to employers”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glouster’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 Athens County and the Athens, OH metro.
Glouster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glouster$66,717
- 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.
- Glouster10
Zip codes with a Glouster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glouster — 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.