Piketon, Ohio.
Typical home $169,495 (+1.5% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Piketon
Piketon’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Piketon is in Pike County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Scioto Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,432 +1%
- $167,063$169,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,491 +18%
- $144,004$169,495 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.
- Piketon$890
- 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 Piketon, OH rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Piketon, Pike County, Ohio
Piketon is a village of 2,111 people in Pike County. Half its households earn more than $41,313 a year and half less, against $52,736 across Pike County. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Piketon is a small village in Pike County, in the Scioto River valley of southern Ohio. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are valued at a level that is within reach for many buyers. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, and the year brings steady rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Among the largest workplaces in Piketon are Pavilion At Piketon, a skilled nursing facility, and Scioto Valley Local Schools, the school district. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many places.
Things to do. Lake White State Park, a protected area, sits in or beside town, as does Piketon Mounds, an archaeological site, and Pee Pee Creek runs close by too. A longer drive brings you to Serpent Mound, one of the best known archaeological sites in the state, and to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, another archaeological site.
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- 846households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 10,637 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waverly weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piketon
- Pavilion At PiketonSkilled nursing facilities169
- Scioto Valley Local SchoolsSchool district153FTE
- aomHomes for the aged with nursing care43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 212 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Piketon’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 Pike County.
Piketon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Piketon$169,495
- 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.
- Piketon16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Piketon4
Zip codes with a Piketon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Piketon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.