Russia, Ohio.
Typical home $359,165 (+7.0% in a year). Sidney, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Russia
Russia’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Russia is in Shelby County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Russia Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,109 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,570 +7%
- $335,596$359,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,068 +41%
- $255,097$359,165 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.
- Russia$1,885
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Russia, OH rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Russia, Shelby County, Ohio
Russia is a village of 712 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $61,685 a year and half less, against $73,978 across Shelby County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shelby County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Russia is a small village in Shelby County, Ohio, and most of the people who live here own their homes, more than is typical for a place its size. Residents are younger on average than in many small towns, and incomes sit below the county's, though only a modest share of people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, or shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in the village are Clopay, which makes garage doors, Russia Local Schools, and Superior Aluminum Products, which makes railings. Commutes are a little longer than a quick trip across town, and a small share of people work from home. Across Shelby County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Loramie Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Grand Lake St. Marys, a large reservoir, and to Lake Loramie State Park, a protected area for time outdoors. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is also a longer drive away for a day out.
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- 255households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Shelby County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 26,404 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer 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 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piqua Wwtp weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Russia
- ClopayGarage doors, metal, manufacturing109
- Russia Local SchoolsSchool district109FTE
- Superior Aluminum ProductsRailings, metal, manufacturing90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 199 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
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Russia’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 Shelby County and the Sidney, OH metro.
Russia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Russia$359,165
- 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.
Zip codes with a Russia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Russia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.