Rockbridge, Ohio.
Typical home $355,592 (+4.6% in a year). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Rockbridge
Rockbridge is in Hocking County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,126 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,589 +5%
- $340,003$355,592 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,523 +36%
- $261,070$355,592 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.
- Rockbridge$1,866
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Rockbridge, OH rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockbridge, Hocking County, Ohio
Rockbridge, in Hocking County, had 160 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hocking County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hocking 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockbridge is a very small community in Hocking County, Ohio, where people live close to the creek and the woods and know one another by sight. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, since the county's median household income sits modestly beside a typical home value that runs high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing people who live here. Across Hocking County, the largest workplaces include Logan-Hocking Local Schools, Walmart and Hocking Valley, the critical access hospital. Jobs across the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Clear Creek, a river, runs in or beside town, and Clear Creek Metro Park, a protected area, is close by too. Lake Logan State Park is a short drive away, a protected area for time by the water. For a longer outing, Hocking Hills State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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What people in Hocking County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hocking County had 7,527 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hocking County
- Logan-Hocking Local SchoolsSchool district710FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters306
- Hocking ValleyCritical access hospital245FTE
- Amanda ManufacturingAutomobile hardware, metal, manufacturing220
- Nelsonville-York City SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores142
- Rocky Brands Distribution CenterBoots merchant wholesalers132
- Cardinal HealthPharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers118
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,555 people in all across the county; Rockbridge has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockbridge’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 Hocking County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Rockbridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockbridge$355,592
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rockbridge listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Rockbridge34.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockbridge30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rockbridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockbridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.