Manchester, Ohio.
Typical home $144,826 (+1.6% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Manchester
Manchester’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Manchester is in Adams County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Manchester Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,211 +2%
- $142,614$144,826 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,208 +26%
- $114,618$144,826 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.
- Manchester$760
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Manchester, OH rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manchester, Adams County, Ohio
Manchester is a village of 1,839 people in Adams County. Half its households earn more than $29,344 a year and half less, against $50,264 across Adams County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manchester is a small village on the Ohio River in Adams County, home to a small community where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes cost less than in many parts of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July; rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. People who live in Manchester work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Nobody works from home, and the typical trip to work is a fairly long one. Across Adams County, the largest workplaces include Adams County Ohio Valley Local Schools, Adams County Regional Medical Center and Manchester Local Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Adams Lake State Park, another protected area, and the Washington Opera House, a theatre. Serpent Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away for anyone interested in the region's earliest history.
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- 840households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 0%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, 10 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 across the county; Manchester has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manchester’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 Adams County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Manchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manchester$144,826
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Manchester listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manchester19
Zip codes with a Manchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manchester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.