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Housing in Rutland

A typical Rutland home is worth about $123,000

Up 10.9% in a year, 51% below the Ohio typical home.

Typical home value
$123K
▲ 10.9% in a year · OH $249K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,060
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,184
OH $2,822
What stands out · In brief

The short version on homes in Rutland

Owning can cost less than renting

With 20% down at the calculator’s rate, the typical Rutland home runs about $790 a month with tax and insurance. A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060. Can I afford it? ↓

Values have lagged Ohio

The typical Rutland home is up 8.9% in five years, against a gain of 29% across Ohio. Over the ten years on the chart it’s up 44%, against 91% statewide. Price trend ↓

Written from the data on this page. Home values are the Zillow Home Value Index, through August 2026; permits are Census figures through 2025 (2025 partly estimated); incomes, rents paid, taxes and ownership come from the Census American Community Survey, which has wide margins in a place this size.

Price trend

Up 8.9% in five years

Slower than Ohio (29.2%).

RutlandOhio
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryRutlandOhio
2017$82,000$133,000
2018$79,000$141,000
2019$81,000$150,000
2020$88,000$158,000
2021$105,000$178,000
2022$114,000$195,000
2023$117,000$211,000
2024$118,000$224,000
2025$115,000$237,000
2026$114,000$245,000
August 2026$123,000$249,000
Then & now

A typical Rutland home worth $85K in September 2016 is worth about $123K today.

+$38K
+10.9%
past year
+8.9%
past 5 years
+44.1%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Affordability

A typical home costs 2.3 years of income

Less than across Ohio (3.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$196,000
Typical Rutland home $123K

That covers a typical Rutland home, with $73K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$790
Loan $610Tax $140Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $270 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rutland’s typical property tax (1.41% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$780
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$1,060
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,760
20%
of households rent · OH 33%
15
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Meigs County, OH): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Rutland in 2025 or in any year since 2013.

Single-family
01 2013201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—

Rutland's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

80% of Rutland households own their home

Half of Rutland’s homes were built before 1954.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Ohio: 67% own.

1954
typical home built · OH 1970
$1,184
median property tax bill · OH $2,822
1.41%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · OH 1.31%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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