Salem, Ohio.
Typical home $189,233 (+4.8% in a year), asking rent $925 . Salem, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Salem
Salem’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Salem is in Columbiana County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Salem City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,626 +5%
- $180,607$189,233 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,186 +30%
- $145,047$189,233 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.
- Salem$993
- 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 Salem, OH rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio
Salem is a city of 11,915 people in Columbiana County. Half its households earn more than $47,073 a year and half less, against $58,180 across Columbiana County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Columbiana County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salem is a small city in Columbiana County, Ohio, with a population on the older side. Incomes are below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than most would expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though not as many as in many other places, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July is warm.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Salem are Ventra Salem, which makes bumpers for trucks and buses, Walmart, and Salem City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly, and most people make a fairly short drive to work.
Things to do. The Burchfield Homestead, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Guilford Lake State Park, good for time by the water, and the Mahoning River. For a longer outing, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,141households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbiana County had 28,389 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millport Northeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Salem
- Ventra SalemBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing580
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters367
- Salem City SchoolsSchool district302FTE
- American Bath GroupBathtubs, metal, manufacturing191
- MAC ManufacturingDump trailer manufacturing164
- Fairbanks Morse Hunt ValvePressure control valves, industrial-type, manufacturing132
- Salem Community Hospital ProfessionalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals120
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,865 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of SalemRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salem’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Columbiana County and the Salem, OH metro.
Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salem$189,233
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Salem 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.
- Salem23.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Salem99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Salem29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Salem$154,773
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.