Housing in Salisbury

A typical Salisbury home is worth roughly $90,000

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Typical home value

$90K

OH $249K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$970

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$874

OH $2,822

What kind of housing town is Salisbury?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

Your money goes further64% below the Ohio typical home.Low tax bills#5 of 1,022 in OH for the lowest property tax bills.Rent is cheap#52 in OH for the cheapest rent.

★ What stands out · 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

$150,000

Typical Salisbury home $90K

That covers a typical Salisbury home, with $61K to spare.

The typical home, each month

$540

Loan $440Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $430 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

Middleport$83K Pomeroy$99K Chester$173K Sutton$124K Cheshire$141K Bedford$156K Rutland$123K

How Salisbury ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Salisbury’s typical property tax (0.97% 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 $970

Renters already here pay a median of $710, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720

1 bedroom$760

2 bedrooms$970

3 bedrooms$1,170

4 bedrooms$1,550

34%

of households rent · OH 33%

604

renter households

49%

of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · OH 46%

30%

of the median income, for a two-bedroom

$710

median rent paid today · Census

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.

The homes

66% of Salisbury households own their home

Half of Salisbury’s homes were built before 1957.

Owners and renters

Own 66%Rent 34%

Ohio: 67% own.

1957

typical home built · OH 1970

$874

median property tax bill · OH $2,822

0.97%

of a home’s value, a year in tax · OH 1.31%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Next door

Salisbury vs. its neighbors

Salisbury is the 2nd least expensive of 8 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Chester$173K Bedford$156K Cheshire$141K Sutton$124K Rutland$123K Pomeroy$99K Salisbury$90K Middleport$83K

Compare more

Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	New homes 2025	Median income
Salisbury	$90K*	—	$970	—	$38,832
Middleport	$83K	+3.4%	$970	0	$42,118
Pomeroy	$99K	+9.4%	$970	0	$33,333
Chester	$173K*	—	$980	—	$64,760
Sutton	$124K*	—	$1,020	—	$41,413
Cheshire	$141K	+7.9%	$970	—	$92,509
Bedford	$156K*	—	$1,000	—	$60,536
Rutland	$123K	+10.9%	$1,030	—	$39,706

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community 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.