McDermott, Ohio.
Typical home $167,820 (+4.6% in a year). Portsmouth, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in McDermott
McDermott is in Scioto County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$465 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,374 +5%
- $160,446$167,820 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,437 +28%
- $131,383$167,820 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.
- McDermott$881
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in McDermott, OH rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McDermott, Scioto County, Ohio
McDermott, in Scioto County, had 308 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Scioto County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scioto 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McDermott is a very small community in Scioto County, in southern Ohio, and the home value shown here sits within reach of many buyers. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing but lows dropping well below it, while summers turn hot by July. Incomes across the county are modest, and the town itself has no one living below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Scioto County, the largest workplaces include Southern Ohio Medical Center, Shawnee State University and Portsmouth City Schools. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Tremper Mound and Works, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Shawnee State Park, a protected area, and Portsmouth Earthworks, another archaeological site. Serpent Mound, one of the best known archaeological sites in the state, is a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Scioto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scioto County had 25,000 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lucasville weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scioto County
- Southern Ohio Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,455FTE
- Shawnee State UniversityUniversity or college496
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
- Portsmouth City SchoolsSchool district258FTE
- G J Pepsi- Cola -Franklin Furnace245
- Washington-Nile Local SchoolsSchool district226FTE
- Pavilion HealthcareNursing faciltiy212
- Northwest Local SchoolsSchool district204FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,859 people in all across the county; McDermott has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McDermott’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Scioto County and the Portsmouth, OH metro.
McDermott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McDermott$167,820
- 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.
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Zip codes with a McDermott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McDermott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.