Lowell, Ohio.
Typical home $141,686 (+1.5% in a year). Marietta, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lowell
Lowell’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Lowell is in Washington County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Fort Frye Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,135 +2%
- $139,551$141,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,067 +9%
- $129,619$141,686 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.
- Lowell$744
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Lowell, OH rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lowell, Washington County, Ohio
Lowell is a village of 565 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lowell is a small village in Washington County, Ohio, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another by sight. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also providing jobs. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta City Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. A typical commute is a modest drive, and household incomes across the county are modest.
Things to do. The Muskingum River is a short drive away and is a natural spot for time on the water or along its banks. Also a short drive off are the Ohio River Museum and Marietta Earthworks, an archaeological site, both suited to anyone curious about the region's past. For a longer outing, Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 25,437 jobs in 2025, 0.7% 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 64°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beverly Stp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Marietta Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital2,423FTE
- M.H.S. Belpre CampusGeneral medical and surgical hospitals622
- Marietta City SchoolsSchool district454FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters410
- KratonRubber, synthetic, manufacturing352
- Marietta CollegeUniversity or college349
- Thermo Fisher Scientific MariettaLaboratory-type freezers manufacturing340
- Syensqo Specialty Polymers USAPlastics material and resin manufacturing310
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 80 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,378 people in all across the county; Lowell has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lowell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Washington County and the Marietta, OH metro.
Lowell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lowell$141,686
- 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.
Zip codes with a Lowell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lowell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.