Newport, Ohio.
Typical home $156,336 (+4.8% in a year). Marietta, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Newport
Newport is in Washington County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$394 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,217 +5%
- $149,119$156,336 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,304 +18%
- $133,033$156,336 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.
- Newport$821
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Newport, OH rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Washington County, Ohio
Newport is a township of 1,901 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $82,078 a year and half less, against $63,603 across Washington County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small township on the Ohio River side of Washington County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well above the county's, and fewer households live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, so most people make a fairly long drive to their jobs. Among the larger workplaces in Newport are Trane Technologies, Depot Connect International and Haessly Hardwood Lumber Co.
Things to do. The Muskingum River is a short drive away, and Danas Run flows in or beside town. For a look at the past, the Marietta Earthworks, an archaeological site, and Fort Harmar are both a short drive off, as is the Ohio River Museum. Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive.
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- 881households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 25,437 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newport
- Trane Technologies39
- Depot Connect InternationalMaintenance on otr equip., trailers, tractors, etc32
- Ergon Truckng, Inc. - MariettaTanker trucking, long-distance26
- Haessly Hardwood Lumber CoLumber, hardwood dimension, made from logs or bolts26
- Haessly Lumber Sales CoHandles, wood, manufacturing26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 149 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington 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 Washington County and the Marietta, OH metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$156,336
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.