Lower Salem, Ohio.
Typical home $152,212 (+4.0% in a year). Marietta, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lower Salem
Lower Salem is in Noble County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$398 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,924 +4%
- $146,289$152,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,252 +15%
- $131,960$152,212 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.
- Lower Salem$799
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Lower Salem, OH rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lower Salem, Noble County, Ohio
Lower Salem is a village of 75 people in Noble County. Unemployment in Noble County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Noble County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lower Salem is a very small village in Noble County, in southeastern Ohio. Winters are cold and bring a fair amount of snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. These fields range from caring work to factory jobs and deliveries.
Things to do. For time by water, the Muskingum River is a longer drive away, and Whipple Run, a river, is a short drive away. Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Noble County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Noble County had 3,023 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marietta Wwtp weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Noble County
- Caldwell Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Noble Local SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Schroer GroupSkilled nursing facilities103
- Magnum Magnetics Corporation - CaldwellSheeting, rubber, manufacturing75
- Magnum Tapes & FilmsSheeting, rubber, manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 201 people in all across the county; Lower Salem has none of its own. 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
- 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 Lower Salem’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 Noble County and the Marietta, OH metro.
Lower Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lower Salem$152,212
- 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 Lower Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lower Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.