Lexington, Ohio.
Typical home $248,866 (+5.3% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lexington
Lexington’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Lexington is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Lexington Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$773 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,634 +5%
- $236,232$248,866 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,141 +38%
- $179,725$248,866 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.
- Lexington$1,306
- 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 Lexington, OH rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lexington, Richland County, Ohio
Lexington is a village of 4,848 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $52,196 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lexington is a village in Richland County, Ohio, and a small place by any measure. Residents are somewhat older than in the typical American community, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Lexington are Charter Next Generation Lexington Campus, which makes packaging film, Lexington Local Schools, and GHSP, which makes sunroofs and other vehicle parts. Across the county there are fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is lower than it was then.
Things to do. Clear Fork Reservoir lies in or beside town, which makes it the easiest place to get out on the water. A short drive away are the Ohio State Reformatory, now a museum, and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track. Kingwood Center, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,049households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lexington
- Charter Next Generation Lexington CampusPackaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing1,072
- Lexington Local SchoolsSchool district461FTE
- GHSP (Stoneridge Control Devices INC)Sunroofs and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing405
- Atrium CentersHomes for the elderly with nursing care93
- Pcp LexingtonGeneral medical and surgical hospitals31
- Meade ConstructionRoofing contractors30
- Mansfield OH Home HealthHome health care agencies23
- TruGreenLawn care20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,674 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lexington’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Lexington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lexington$248,866
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lexington 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.
- Lexington34.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lexington24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lexington9
Zip codes with a Lexington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lexington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.