Ray, Ohio.
Typical home $191,477 (+6.3% in a year). Jackson, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ray
Ray is in Vinton County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$582 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,310 +6%
- $180,167$191,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,895 +32%
- $145,582$191,477 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.
- Ray$1,005
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Ray, OH rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ray, Vinton County, Ohio
The Census does not count Ray on its own, so the figures here are Vinton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,336 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Vinton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vinton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ray is a small town in Vinton County, in the hilly southeastern part of Ohio. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's residents are older on average than across the country, with a considerable share living below the poverty line. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm and fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in shops. Unemployment in the county has come down over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly. Few adults hold a university degree, so many local jobs rest on hands-on skills and years of experience.
Things to do. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, an archaeological site a longer drive away, is one of the best known places in the area. Hocking Hills State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, is known for its woods and rock formations. Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve, a protected area a short drive away, is one of the closer options.
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- 5,328households
- 44.0median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Vinton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vinton County had 2,259 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 21 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vinton County
- Vinton County Local SchoolsSchool district349FTE
- Superior Hardwoods of Ohio, Inc. : McArthur DivisionSawmills50
- LionStone CareSkilled nursing facilities42
- Crownover Lumber CompanyBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts34
- Integrated Services for Behavioral HealthIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose34
- NWHLumber merchant wholesalers31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 191 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Vinton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Vinton County and the Jackson, OH metro.
Ray home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ray$191,477
- 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.
- Ray10
Zip codes with a Ray address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ray — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.