Ironton, Ohio.
Typical home $125,551 (+5.2% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ironton
Ironton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ironton is in Lawrence County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Ironton City and Rock Hill Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$330 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,175 +5%
- $119,376$125,551 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,655 +27%
- $98,896$125,551 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.
- Ironton$659
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Ironton, OH rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio
Ironton is a city of 10,571 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $47,648 a year and half less, against $58,325 across Lawrence County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ironton is a small city on the Ohio River, and its residents are somewhat older than in much of the country. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect, though most homes are lived in by their owners. A typical home is priced modestly, and winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, while summers turn warm and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. Among the biggest workplaces in Ironton are Vertiv, which makes air conditioning equipment, the Ironton City School District, and The Sanctuary of the Ohio Valley, a nursing home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and most people travel a moderate distance to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. The Little Sandy River is a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Wayne National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, and to the Huntington Museum of Art, for an afternoon indoors.
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- 4,562households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ironton
- VertivAir conditioning equipment except motor vehicle manufacturing503
- Ironton City School DistrictSchool district233FTE
- The Sanctuary of the Ohio ValleyNursing homes84
- Ohio University-Southern CampusUniversity or college66
- IrontonMail and parcel delivery41
- GTL LumberSawmills26
- TownePlace Suites IrontonCasinos26
- Holiday Inn Express IrontonHotels21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 701 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Ironton’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.
Ironton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ironton$125,551
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ironton listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Ironton30.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ironton60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ironton17
Zip codes with a Ironton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ironton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.