Kingston, Ohio.
Typical home $258,371 (+2.6% in a year). Chillicothe, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Kingston
Kingston’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Kingston is in Ross County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Zane Trace Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$757 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,603 +3%
- $251,768$258,371 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,171 +28%
- $201,200$258,371 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.
- Kingston$1,356
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Kingston, OH rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingston, Ross County, Ohio
Kingston is a village of 1,262 people in Ross County. Half its households earn more than $40,357 a year and half less, against $61,303 across Ross County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Ross County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ross County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingston is a small village in Ross County, Ohio, and the people who live here are older than in most places, with a median age well above the national one. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes are valued well above what local incomes alone would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing only barely, while July brings warm summer afternoons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Ross County, the largest workplaces include Paccar, which assembles heavy trucks and buses, Adena Regional Medical Center, and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The area is rich in earthworks built by ancient peoples. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park and Adena Mound are both archaeological sites a short drive away. For time outdoors, Great Seal State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Hocking Hills State Park is a longer drive.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Ross County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ross County had 28,735 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chillicothe Mound City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Ross County
- Adena Regional Medical Center3,568
- Kenworth Truck Company (Paccar)2,206
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center1,600
- Pixelle (formerly Mead Corp.)853
- Chillicothe Correctional Institute473
- Ross County450
- Ross County Correctional Institute431
- Chillicothe City School District408
From Ross County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers, as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively 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 Kingston’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 Ross County and the Chillicothe, OH metro.
Kingston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingston$258,371
- 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.
- Kingston11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kingston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.