West Salem, Ohio.
Typical home $161,064 (-3.8% in a year). Wooster, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in West Salem
West Salem’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
West Salem is in Wayne County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Northwestern Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$421 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,433 -4%
- $167,497$161,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,487 +16%
- $138,578$161,064 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.
- West Salem$845
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in West Salem, OH fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Salem, Wayne County, Ohio
West Salem is a village of 1,430 people in Wayne County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Salem is a small village in Wayne County, Ohio, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are mild to warm, with plenty of snow in winter and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Most commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Schaeffler Transmission, Wooster Community Hospital and The College of Wooster, and unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago even though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Killbuck Creek, a river, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Findley State Park, a protected area, and to Charles Mill Lake, a reservoir. For something indoors, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 48,168 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chippewa Lake weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wayne County
- J. M. Smucker2,000
- Schaeffler2,000
- Wooster Community Hospital1,250
- College of Wooster850
- Buehlers Food800
- Artiflex675
- Wayne County627
- Wooster Brush575
From Wayne County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Wayne County Economic Development Council; Bureau of Economic Analysis”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West 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 Wayne County and the Wooster, OH metro.
West Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Salem$161,064
- 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.
Zip codes with a West Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.