Lucas, Ohio.
Typical home $262,686 (+5.3% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lucas
Lucas’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Lucas is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Lucas Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$818 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,273 +5%
- $249,413$262,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,664 +38%
- $190,022$262,686 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.
- Lucas$1,379
- 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 Lucas, OH rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lucas, Richland County, Ohio
Lucas is a village of 589 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $57,333 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lucas is a small village in Richland County, Ohio, and a very small one, with fewer residents than most towns of any kind. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here are worth more than many people might expect for a village this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, July being the warmest, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services close behind. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are Medcentral Health System, Mansfield City Schools and ArcelorMittal Tubular Products - Shelby. Few people here work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one by village standards. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Malabar Farm State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Charles Mill Lake is a reservoir that is also a short drive from the village. For something indoors, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum a short drive away. Anyone who likes motor racing can head to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield Lahm Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Richland County
- OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital2,500
- CNG1,200
- Avita775
- Richland County758
- Newman Technology, Incorporated625
- Arcelor Mittal550
- The Gorman Rupp Company525
- Adena Corporation525
From Richland County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “2015 - Richland County and the Ohio Department of Economic Development 2024 - Mansfield Chamber of Commerce”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Lucas’ 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.
Lucas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lucas$262,686
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lucas11
Zip codes with a Lucas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lucas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.