Wellston, Ohio.
Typical home $119,008 (-2.9% in a year). Jackson, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Wellston
Wellston’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Wellston is in Jackson County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Wellston City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$333 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,534 -3%
- $122,542$119,008 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,674 +17%
- $101,335$119,008 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.
- Wellston$625
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Wellston, OH fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Wellston is a city of 5,412 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellston is a small city in Jackson County, Ohio, where residents are somewhat older than in many American towns. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with real snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in banks, insurance and property, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are General Mills - Totino's, Bellisio Foods and Jackson City Schools. Commutes tend to be long, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job each day.
Things to do. Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve and Leo Petroglyph, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away, and Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to Hocking Hills State Park, a protected area with a long-standing reputation among Ohio visitors.
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- 2,030households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 36 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 10,220 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 21 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- General Mills - Totino'sFrozen pizza manufacturing1,014
- Bellisio FoodsFrozen food entrees, packaged, manufacturing786
- Geiger BrothersPlumbing fixture installation421
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Jackson City SchoolsSchool district299FTE
- Wellston City SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Oak Hill Union Local SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Speyside Bourbon CooperageBarrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing170
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,560 people in all across the county; Wellston has two of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- 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 Wellston’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 Jackson County and the Jackson, OH metro.
Wellston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellston$119,008
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wellston listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Wellston15.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wellston35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wellston7
Zip codes with a Wellston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.