A typical Winchester home is worth roughly $174,000
Home prices around Winchester have risen about 59% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 3 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Winchester?
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A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $555, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Brown County, OH HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
A typical home costs 4.3 years of income
More than across Ohio (3.5 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $19K short of a typical Winchester home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $100 less than owning.
How Winchester ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Winchester’s typical property tax (1.10% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 59% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Winchester rose 59% over the past 5 years, faster than across Ohio (53%). Last year prices fell 3.5%. Carrying the Census median home value forward with that index puts the typical Winchester home at roughly $174,000 today.
Carrying the Census median forward with the index puts a typical home at about $174K.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Winchester, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
3 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in Winchester in 2025, all single-family houses. That's 2.3 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Ohio (3.3). Over the past 10 years, Winchester has permitted 11 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $427,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $640,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Winchester’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Winchester’s homes were built before 1971.
Ohio: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.