South Point, Ohio.
Typical home $158,585 (+0.1% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Property tax and schools in South Point
South Point’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
South Point is in Lawrence County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the South Point Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$442 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $131 +0%
- $158,453$158,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,923 +24%
- $127,662$158,585 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.
- South Point$832
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in South Point, OH rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio
South Point is a village of 3,836 people in Lawrence County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Point is a village at the southern tip of Ohio, where the state meets Kentucky and West Virginia along the Ohio River. It is an older community, with residents who skew older than across much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing a good share. Among the larger workplaces in South Point are South Point Local Schools, FedEx and Minova. The typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home. Across Lawrence County, unemployment has eased from a year ago and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. A short drive away, Huntington Museum of Art offers a museum visit, and Camden Park is an amusement park for a family day out. Joan C. Edwards Stadium, also a short drive off, is the place for a game. For time outdoors, Symmes Creek is a river a short drive away, while Wayne National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive.
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- 1,364households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 13,984 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the South Pt weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in South Point
- South Point Local SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services91
- Xcal Tools South Point,llcMachine tool attachments and accessories manufacturing85
- Bimbo Bakeries USAPrivate warehousing and storage, general merchandise79
- MinovaBolts, metal, manufacturing73
- OH - South Point - 412 Commerce Drive - The American Bottling CompanyOther grocery and related products merchant whsl51
- Tri-State Bible CollegeUniversity or college37
- LB&B AssociatesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 489 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 South Point’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 Lawrence County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
South Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Point$158,585
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 South Point 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.
- South Point20.19%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- South Point37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- South Point14
Zip codes with a South Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.