Lore City, Ohio.
Typical home $180,924 (+5.9% in a year). Cambridge, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lore City
Lore City’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Lore City is in Guernsey County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Rolling Hills Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$507 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,086 +6%
- $170,838$180,924 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,839 +17%
- $154,085$180,924 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.
- Lore City$950
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Lore City, OH rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lore City, Guernsey County, Ohio
Lore City is a village of 282 people in Guernsey County. Unemployment in Guernsey County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Guernsey 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lore City is a very small village in Guernsey County, Ohio, where people are likely to know one another by name. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and household incomes in the county sit below the national middle. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Guernsey County, the largest workplaces include Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Walmart and Cambridge City Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Salt Fork State Park, a protected area, and Senecaville Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and suit walking, fishing and time on the water. Paradise Lake, an amusement park, is also a short drive from the village. For a longer outing, The Wilds, a zoo, is a longer drive away.
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What people in Guernsey County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guernsey County had 14,750 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 17 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cambridge weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Guernsey County
- Southeastern Ohio REG MED CTRGeneral hospital785FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Bi-Con ServicesCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction375
- Colgate Palmolive CompanyDetergents manufacturing345
- Cambridge City SchoolsSchool district343FTE
- Quanex IG Systems CambridgeSheeting, rubber, manufacturing307
- Cooper Standard New LexingtonBrake discs, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing249
- Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing LLC- Plant 1, ByesvilleDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing249
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,417 people in all across the county; Lore City has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Lore City’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 Guernsey County and the Cambridge, OH metro.
Lore City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lore City$180,924
- 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.
- Lore City9
Zip codes with a Lore City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lore City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.