Winchester, Ohio.
Typical home $237,587 (+4.1% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Winchester
Winchester’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Winchester is in Adams County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Adams County Ohio Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$715 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,300 +4%
- $228,288$237,587 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,337 +28%
- $186,250$237,587 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.
- Winchester$1,247
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Winchester, OH rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winchester, Adams County, Ohio
Winchester is a village of 987 people in Adams County. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adams 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winchester is a small Ohio village, home to far fewer people than most towns on a map, and its residents are younger than the typical American. Poverty is more common here than across much of the country, and homes are valued well above what you might expect for a place this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a modest amount of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also common. Across Adams County, the largest workplaces include Adams County Ohio Valley Local Schools, Walmart and Adams County Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has come down from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Serpent Mound, a famous archaeological site, and to Adams Lake State Park, another protected area.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 6,923 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 60°. About 17 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ripley Experiment Farm weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Adams County Ohio Valley Local SchoolsSchool district678FTE
- Services Peebles336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Adams County Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital218FTE
- Manchester Local SchoolsSchool district113FTE
- Eagle Creek Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities89
- Continuing Healthcare SolutionsHomes for the elderly with nursing care63
- Alpine House of West UnionBoys' and girls' residential facilities44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 833 people in all across the county; Winchester has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Winchester’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 Adams County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Winchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winchester$237,587
- 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.
- Winchester14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Winchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winchester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.