Oak Hill, Ohio.
Typical home $119,826 (-1.9% in a year). Jackson, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Oak Hill
Oak Hill’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Oak Hill is in Jackson County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Oak Hill Union Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$232 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,315 -2%
- $122,142$119,826 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,654 -7%
- $128,480$119,826 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.
- Oak Hill$629
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Oak Hill, OH fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio
Oak Hill is a village of 1,407 people in Jackson County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Hill is a small village in Jackson County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Poverty is more common here than in many places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are warm. The year brings a fair amount of snow and plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are General Mills - Totino's, Bellisio Foods and Geiger Brothers, which make frozen food and install plumbing fixtures. Job numbers across the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. Very few people work from home, and most make a commute of moderate length.
Things to do. Jackson Lake State Park, a protected area, is in or beside town, which makes it the easiest outing close at hand. A longer drive brings you to Wayne National Forest, a large protected area for hiking and time outdoors. The Scioto River is also a longer drive away if you like being near water.
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- 722households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 10,220 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 14 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waterloo weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- General Mills - Totino'sFrozen pizza manufacturing1,014
- Bellisio FoodsFrozen food entrees, packaged, manufacturing786
- Geiger BrothersPlumbing fixture installation421
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Jackson City SchoolsSchool district299FTE
- Wellston City SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Oak Hill Union Local SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Speyside Bourbon CooperageBarrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing170
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,560 people in all across the county; Oak Hill has one of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Oak HillRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Oak Hill’s 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 Jackson County and the Jackson, OH metro.
Oak Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Hill$119,826
- 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.
- Oak Hill13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oak Hill5
Zip codes with a Oak Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.