Shelby, Ohio.
Typical home $190,079 (+6.6% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Shelby
Shelby’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Shelby is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Plymouth-Shiloh Local and Shelby City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$602 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,777 +7%
- $178,303$190,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,158 +39%
- $136,921$190,079 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.
- Shelby$998
- 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 Shelby, OH rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shelby, Richland County, Ohio
Shelby is a city of 9,282 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $58,351 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shelby is a small city in Richland County, Ohio, with a median age close to that of the country as a whole. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of households live under the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Shelby are ArcelorMittal Tubular Products, which makes tube from purchased iron or steel, MTD Products, a maker of lawn and garden equipment, and Shelby City Schools. Richland County has lost a few jobs over the past year, though unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier, and most people spend a moderate stretch of their day getting to work.
Things to do. The Sandusky River and the Black Fork Mohican River are both a short drive away for time by the water. Mansfield Motorsports Park, a race track, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kingwood Center is a botanical garden. Winters here are cold, so those outings suit the warmer months, when summer highs are comfortable and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 3,633households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby
- ArcelorMittal Tubular Products - ShelbyTube made from purchased iron or steel592
- MTD ProductsLawn and garden equipment manufacturing340
- Shelby City SchoolsSchool district292FTE
- Shelby HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals204
- Shelby Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital124FTE
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities91
- Cooper EnterprisesCustom architectural millwork and fixtures, manufacturing on a job shop basis70
- Lloyd Rebar CompanyConcrete reinforcing bar assemblies, fabrication51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,396 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shelby’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Shelby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shelby$190,079
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Shelby 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.
- Shelby32.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shelby27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shelby14
Zip codes with a Shelby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shelby — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.