Lynx, Ohio.
Typical home $153,125 (-0.2% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Lynx
Lynx is in Adams County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $335 -0%
- $153,460$153,125 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,064 +17%
- $131,061$153,125 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.
- Lynx$804
- 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 Lynx, OH fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lynx, Adams County, Ohio
The Census does not count Lynx on its own, so the figures here are Adams County's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,264 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adams 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lynx sits in Adams County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the area gets a wet year with plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail, or the building trades. Unemployment across Adams County was lower this past summer than a year earlier, and jobs grew slightly last year.
Things to do. Adams Lake State Park, a protected area, and Ohio Brush Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. Serpent Mound, an archaeological site and one of the best known in the state, is a longer drive away.
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- 10,421households
- 42.1median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 6,923 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Maysville Wwtp weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Adams County Ohio Valley Local SchoolsSchool district678FTE
- Services Peebles336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Adams County Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital218FTE
- Manchester Local SchoolsSchool district113FTE
- Eagle Creek Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities89
- Continuing Healthcare SolutionsHomes for the elderly with nursing care63
- Alpine House of West UnionBoys' and girls' residential facilities44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 833 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Adams County, 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 Adams County.
Lynx home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lynx$153,125
- 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 Lynx address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lynx — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.