South Salem, Ohio.
Typical home $183,441 (+3.3% in a year). Chillicothe, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in South Salem
South Salem’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
South Salem is in Ross County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Greenfield Exempted Village school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$534 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,911 +3%
- $177,529$183,441 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,838 +21%
- $151,603$183,441 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 Salem$963
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in South Salem, OH rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Salem, Ross County, Ohio
South Salem is a village of 219 people in Ross County. Unemployment in Ross County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ross 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Salem is a very small village in Ross County, Ohio, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are priced below what is typical for much of the country, and household incomes across Ross County sit below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow arrives every year; summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Ross County, some of the largest workplaces are Paccar, which assembles heavy trucks, Adena Regional Medical Center, and Chillicothe City Schools. The typical commute is a moderate drive, so many people travel some distance for work. Across Ross County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away are Paint Creek State Park, a protected area for time outdoors, and Rattlesnake Creek, a river. A longer drive brings you to Serpent Mound, an archaeological site, and to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, another archaeological site tied to the area's long history. Together the parks and the mounds give the area a mix of water, woods and ancient earthworks to explore.
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- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Ross County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ross County had 28,735 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Court House weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Ross County
- Adena Regional Medical Center3,568
- Kenworth Truck Company (Paccar)2,206
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center1,600
- Pixelle (formerly Mead Corp.)853
- Chillicothe Correctional Institute473
- Ross County450
- Ross County Correctional Institute431
- Chillicothe City School District408
From Ross County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers, as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in South Salem’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 Ross County and the Chillicothe, OH metro.
South Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Salem$183,441
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- South Salem5
Zip codes with a South Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.