Riverlea, Ohio.
Typical home $580,300 (+5.7% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Riverlea
Riverlea’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Riverlea is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Worthington City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,664 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,315 +6%
- $548,986$580,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,777 +29%
- $449,523$580,300 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.
- Riverlea$3,046
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Riverlea, OH rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverlea, Franklin County, Ohio
Riverlea is a village of 599 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $161,250 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverlea is a very small village in Franklin County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Residents are older than in most places, with incomes well above the county's and very few households living in poverty. Homes here are valued far above what is typical across the country, and almost every adult has a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Columbus City Schools District. Commutes are short, and a good share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Olentangy River is a short drive away, and so is Chadwick Arboretum, a botanical garden. For a day out, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Wexner Center for the Arts, a museum, are both a short drive away as well. Ohio Stadium, one of the best known places nearby, is also close.
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- 215households
- 89%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 31%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 791,805 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Ohio State Univ Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Franklin County
- The Ohio State University36,433
- Ohio Health24,662
- State of Ohio24,217
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.18,600
- Nationwide Children's Hospital14,037
- The Kroger Co.14,006
- Nationwide11,000
- Amazon.com Inc.9,262
From Franklin County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Business First, Book of Lists, 2024. Franklin County adjusted to reflect reporting entity”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
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 in Riverlea’s census tracts, 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 Franklin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Riverlea home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverlea$580,300
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Riverlea address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverlea — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.