Otway, Ohio.
Typical home $143,104 (+4.5% in a year). Portsmouth, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Otway
Otway’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Otway is in Scioto County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Northwest Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$427 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,127 +4%
- $136,976$143,104 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,981 +35%
- $106,122$143,104 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.
- Otway$751
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Otway, OH rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Otway, Scioto County, Ohio
Otway is a village of 92 people in Scioto County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Otway is a very small village in Scioto County, in southern Ohio, where most people know their neighbors. Homes here are valued modestly by national standards, and the village has the quiet feel of a rural community. Winters are cold and summers are warm, so the seasons are clearly marked.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and the building trades. Commutes are of moderate length, and the county's job market has softened a little over the past year. Many households rely on the steady work that these local employers provide.
Things to do. Shawnee State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers a place to walk and spend time outdoors. Tremper Mound and Works, an archaeological site also a short drive off, preserves earthworks left by earlier peoples of the region. Serpent Mound, a longer drive away, is one of the best-known archaeological sites in Ohio.
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- 27 mintypical commute
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, 10 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; Otway 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Otway’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.
Otway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Otway$143,104
- 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.
- Otway5
Zip codes with a Otway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Otway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.