ZIP code 43905: Colerain Township and Barton
Belmont County · 474 residents · Barton post office; 100% of residents live in the township of Colerain Township
Mostly private wells. 30% of residents on a community system (St. Clairsville, City Of: St. Clairsville Main & Provident Reservoirs (local runoff)). The water here
43905 in 10 facts
The 10 things that stand out about this ZIP against the other 1,232 in Ohio, each with its source.
- Where the water comes from Where the water here comes from: Mostly private wells. Source: EPA SDWIS
- Historic places 0 This ZIP has few listed historic places: 0 on the National Register, fewer than 52% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: National Register data
- Abandoned mines 61.3% This ZIP has a lot of mapped underground mining: 61.3% of the land is above a mapped abandoned mine, more than 98% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: ODNR mines of Ohio
- Pipelines 0.1 mi This ZIP sits close to a gas transmission line: the nearest is 0.1 miles away, closer than 94% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: EIA U.S. Energy Atlas
- Aquifer 0% This ZIP sits over a well-protected aquifer setting: 0% of the land is in an Ohio EPA sensitive geologic setting, lower than 90% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: Ohio EPA geology layers
- Social vulnerability 14 Social vulnerability runs low here: an average tract rank of 14 out of 100 on the CDC index, lower than 93% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI
- Wetlands 0.1% This ZIP has little mapped wetland: 0.1% of the land, lower than 91% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: USFWS wetlands inventory
- Jobs 0.09 jobs per employed resident This ZIP has few jobs relative to its residents: 0.09 jobs per employed resident, fewer than 89% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: Census LEHD
- Cell signal 72.5% Cell signal runs weak here: 5G from AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon reaches 72.5% of the land, lower than 89% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: FCC broadband map
- Toxic sites 4.2 mi This ZIP sits close to a federal Superfund site: the nearest is 4.2 miles away, closer than 88% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: EPA Facility Registry
Where does the tap water come from?
Where the tap water comes from and what is in it: the lake, river, reservoir or aquifer behind every tap, the plant that treats it, and what the compliance record and the lab results say about it.
Where the water comes from
Mostly private wellsMostly private wells30% of residents on a community system (St. Clairsville, City Of: St. Clairsville Main & Provident Reservoirs (local runoff))
Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water… · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
About this area's water

Did you know
- The city's two reservoirs are named, plainly, 'Main' and 'Provident' — and when the main one runs low the city pumps water from Provident through a pipeline all the way across town into the main reservoir.
- Its drought insurance is somebody else's aquifer: the Belmont County Water and Sewer District's well water arrives already treated and goes straight into the city's water towers.
- The backup is turning into a habit — the county connection is normally used about 12 days a year, but in 2025 it ran 115 days and delivered 25.4 million of the roughly 172 million gallons the city put out.
- In 2019, with the reservoir down 8 to 10 feet, the mayor wanted to sell the whole system to Aqua Ohio; council members and two mayoral candidates pushed back, and the city still owns and runs it today.
Source: stclairsville.commariettatimes.comtimesleaderonline.com
History6
- 1796The settlement is established as Newellstown.
- 1802Renamed St. Clairsville in honor of Gen. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory; it is the seat of Belmont County.
- 2016An October drought forces the city to draw on the Provident Reservoir for a limited time — the only prior use officials could recall before 2019.
- 2019Drought drops the main reservoir 8 to 10 feet, roughly a 50% loss on a reservoir that holds about 27 million gallons and is not much more than 16 feet deep; the city prepares to take its full…
- 2024A statewide drought that began in mid-June pushes the reservoir to the lowest level the service director had seen in ten years (longtime employees recalled lower levels in the late 1990s and early…
- 2025An underdrain failure in the plant's second filter causes treatment-technique violations for inadequate filtration in October and December, with turbidity peaking at 12.83 NTU; the city operates on a…
Source: stclairsville.comtimesleaderonline.commariettatimes.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The city treats its own surface water from two small local-runoff impoundments: the main reservoir on Reservoir Road and the Provident Reservoir on Vineyard Road, north of the city. Conventional filtration and chlorination; fluoride is present at up to 1.41 ppm and free chlorine averaged 1.38 ppm…
Source: stclairsville.comstclairsville.com
Water pressure
Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the city's CCR, rate schedule or department pages.
What it costs
$16.51 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $83 a month for water.
Rising-block schedule effective Sept. 5, 2025. Residential/commercial inside the city: $15.58 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $16.74 for the next 2,000; $17.89 for the next…
Source: stclairsville.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbidity VIOLATION. Range 0.04-12.83 NTU; lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting the limit was 97%. Caused by an… | 12.83 NTU | 0.3 NTU in 95%… | 2025 |
| Total organic carbon (removal ratio) VIOLATION. Range of monthly ratios 0.81-1.42; a value below 1 means the required percentage of TOC was not removed. | 0.81 ratio… | TT | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Range 46.7-59.3 ppb — the running average sits close to the limit and individual results reached 59.3. By-product of… | 52.83 ppb | 60 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 30.70-73.5 ppb; by-product of chlorination. | 55.78 ppb | 80 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.55-1.41 ppm. | 1.41 ppm | 4 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.14-1.64 ppm; runoff from fertilizer and leaching from septic systems. | 1.64 ppm | 10 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Range 1.13-1.74 ppm. | 1.38 ppm | 4 ppm (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Barium Discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits. | 0.05 ppm | 2 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Selenium Discharge from petroleum and metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits; mine discharge. | 3.75 ppb | 50 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Chromium Discharge from steel and pulp mills; erosion of natural deposits. | 1.03 ppb | 100 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
Source: stclairsville.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2025Total coliform · treatment technique violation · known
- 2024Haloacetic acids (HAA5) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.065 MG/L (limit 0.06 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2019Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 4 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.
19 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 16 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans8
Recent and current work
- Belmont County backup water purchase agreement · 2019 · completed
The city began buying up to its full contractual 325,000 gallons a day from the Belmont County Water and Sewer District during the 2019 drought; by 2024 the… - Water Distribution Improvement Project (Phase I) · 2025 · under construction
Referenced in the 2025 CCR: service line materials were verified by visual inspection by James White Construction as the distribution system replacement… - Ohio EPA-mandated sanitary sewer smoke testing · 2026 · under construction
Smoke testing of sanitary sewer lines resumed Sept. 8-11, 2026 on Orchard Drive, all of Spring Park, and East Main Street from Orchard Drive to Commons…
Source: stclairsville.comstclairsville.comtimesleaderonline.com
Planned or needed
- Filter No. 2 underdrain replacement and backwash pressure gauges · 2026 · needed
Corrective action for the 2025 turbidity treatment-technique violation: the filter has been taken out of service, the failed underdrain system will be… - Water Distribution Improvement Project - Phase II · 2026 · planned
Ordinance 2026-30 (Aug. 18, 2026) directs the Director of Public Services to solicit competitive bids; no cost is published. - Efaw Lift Station Project (sanitary sewer) · 2026 · planned
Ordinance 2026-29 authorizes execution of a notice of award and contract with the James White Construction Company; no contract amount is published on the city… - Reservoir intake sediment removal · $1 million · 2019 · needed
The plant's lower intake is plugged under an estimated 10 to 12 feet of sediment and would require a diver; the then-service director called it 'probably a… - Broader water plant and distribution system upgrades · 2019 · needed
Ohio EPA mandated upgrades after finding algal blooms capable of producing toxins; the mayor put plant and distribution upgrades 'in the tens of millions of…
Supply stress
High. The city depends on two small, rain-fed local impoundments with no river or aquifer of its own — the main reservoir holds only about 27 million gallons and is barely 16 feet deep — and it has drawn down hard in the 2016, 2019 and 2024 droughts. Its only fallback is purchased Belmont County groundwater, capped by agreement (325,000…
Source: stclairsville.commariettatimes.comtimesleaderonline.com
Sewers
Sanitary
The city runs its own combined Water and Wastewater Department under Water Superintendent Mike Reed, treating its wastewater locally, with billing through the Municipal Utilities Office. Sewer rates effective Sept. 5, 2025, residential/commercial inside city: $14.07 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $14.91 for the next 2,000; $15.76…
Storm
Not published. The city publishes no stormwater utility fee, CSO inventory or flooding information; the Ohio EPA-mandated smoke testing implies an inflow-and-infiltration problem in the separate sanitary system, but no storm sewer detail is available.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Water systems in this ZIP
- St. Clairsville, City Of30% of residentsSt. Clairsville Main & Provident Reservoirs (local runoff)
70% of residents live outside every mapped system, most likely on private wells.
Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Infrastructure in this ZIP
1.52 mi of gas transmission pipeline (Rover Pipeline (Energy Transfer)) · 1.27 mi of electric transmission line (AEP Ohio) · 1 fire or EMS station · 1 post office · 4 shale gas wells (Lorraine Clr Bl 2H, Earley-Rose Clr Bl 10H, Lorraine Clr Bl 4H) · 3 bridges and culverts in the inventory.
Draw them6 layers on the mapIntakes and plants
Mostly private wellsMostly private wells30% of residents on a community system (St. Clairsville, City Of: St. Clairsville Main & Provident Reservoirs (local runoff))
Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water… · EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA source water protection
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About this area's water

Did you know
- The city's two reservoirs are named, plainly, 'Main' and 'Provident' — and when the main one runs low the city pumps water from Provident through a pipeline all the way across town into the main reservoir.
- Its drought insurance is somebody else's aquifer: the Belmont County Water and Sewer District's well water arrives already treated and goes straight into the city's water towers.
- The backup is turning into a habit — the county connection is normally used about 12 days a year, but in 2025 it ran 115 days and delivered 25.4 million of the roughly 172 million gallons the city put out.
- In 2019, with the reservoir down 8 to 10 feet, the mayor wanted to sell the whole system to Aqua Ohio; council members and two mayoral candidates pushed back, and the city still owns and runs it today.
Source: stclairsville.commariettatimes.comtimesleaderonline.com
History6
- 1796The settlement is established as Newellstown.
- 1802Renamed St. Clairsville in honor of Gen. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory; it is the seat of Belmont County.
- 2016An October drought forces the city to draw on the Provident Reservoir for a limited time — the only prior use officials could recall before 2019.
- 2019Drought drops the main reservoir 8 to 10 feet, roughly a 50% loss on a reservoir that holds about 27 million gallons and is not much more than 16 feet deep; the city prepares to take its full…
- 2024A statewide drought that began in mid-June pushes the reservoir to the lowest level the service director had seen in ten years (longtime employees recalled lower levels in the late 1990s and early…
- 2025An underdrain failure in the plant's second filter causes treatment-technique violations for inadequate filtration in October and December, with turbidity peaking at 12.83 NTU; the city operates on a…
Source: stclairsville.comtimesleaderonline.commariettatimes.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The city treats its own surface water from two small local-runoff impoundments: the main reservoir on Reservoir Road and the Provident Reservoir on Vineyard Road, north of the city. Conventional filtration and chlorination; fluoride is present at up to 1.41 ppm and free chlorine averaged 1.38 ppm…
Source: stclairsville.comstclairsville.com
Water pressure
Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the city's CCR, rate schedule or department pages.
What it costs
$16.51 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $83 a month for water.
Rising-block schedule effective Sept. 5, 2025. Residential/commercial inside the city: $15.58 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $16.74 for the next 2,000; $17.89 for the next…
Source: stclairsville.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbidity VIOLATION. Range 0.04-12.83 NTU; lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting the limit was 97%. Caused by an… | 12.83 NTU | 0.3 NTU in 95%… | 2025 |
| Total organic carbon (removal ratio) VIOLATION. Range of monthly ratios 0.81-1.42; a value below 1 means the required percentage of TOC was not removed. | 0.81 ratio… | TT | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Range 46.7-59.3 ppb — the running average sits close to the limit and individual results reached 59.3. By-product of… | 52.83 ppb | 60 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 30.70-73.5 ppb; by-product of chlorination. | 55.78 ppb | 80 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.55-1.41 ppm. | 1.41 ppm | 4 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.14-1.64 ppm; runoff from fertilizer and leaching from septic systems. | 1.64 ppm | 10 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Range 1.13-1.74 ppm. | 1.38 ppm | 4 ppm (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Barium Discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits. | 0.05 ppm | 2 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Selenium Discharge from petroleum and metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits; mine discharge. | 3.75 ppb | 50 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Chromium Discharge from steel and pulp mills; erosion of natural deposits. | 1.03 ppb | 100 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
Source: stclairsville.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2025Total coliform · treatment technique violation · known
- 2024Haloacetic acids (HAA5) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.065 MG/L (limit 0.06 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2019Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 4 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.
19 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 16 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans8
Recent and current work
- Belmont County backup water purchase agreement · 2019 · completed
The city began buying up to its full contractual 325,000 gallons a day from the Belmont County Water and Sewer District during the 2019 drought; by 2024 the… - Water Distribution Improvement Project (Phase I) · 2025 · under construction
Referenced in the 2025 CCR: service line materials were verified by visual inspection by James White Construction as the distribution system replacement… - Ohio EPA-mandated sanitary sewer smoke testing · 2026 · under construction
Smoke testing of sanitary sewer lines resumed Sept. 8-11, 2026 on Orchard Drive, all of Spring Park, and East Main Street from Orchard Drive to Commons…
Source: stclairsville.comstclairsville.comtimesleaderonline.com
Planned or needed
- Filter No. 2 underdrain replacement and backwash pressure gauges · 2026 · needed
Corrective action for the 2025 turbidity treatment-technique violation: the filter has been taken out of service, the failed underdrain system will be… - Water Distribution Improvement Project - Phase II · 2026 · planned
Ordinance 2026-30 (Aug. 18, 2026) directs the Director of Public Services to solicit competitive bids; no cost is published. - Efaw Lift Station Project (sanitary sewer) · 2026 · planned
Ordinance 2026-29 authorizes execution of a notice of award and contract with the James White Construction Company; no contract amount is published on the city… - Reservoir intake sediment removal · $1 million · 2019 · needed
The plant's lower intake is plugged under an estimated 10 to 12 feet of sediment and would require a diver; the then-service director called it 'probably a… - Broader water plant and distribution system upgrades · 2019 · needed
Ohio EPA mandated upgrades after finding algal blooms capable of producing toxins; the mayor put plant and distribution upgrades 'in the tens of millions of…
Supply stress
High. The city depends on two small, rain-fed local impoundments with no river or aquifer of its own — the main reservoir holds only about 27 million gallons and is barely 16 feet deep — and it has drawn down hard in the 2016, 2019 and 2024 droughts. Its only fallback is purchased Belmont County groundwater, capped by agreement (325,000…
Source: stclairsville.commariettatimes.comtimesleaderonline.com
Sewers
Sanitary
The city runs its own combined Water and Wastewater Department under Water Superintendent Mike Reed, treating its wastewater locally, with billing through the Municipal Utilities Office. Sewer rates effective Sept. 5, 2025, residential/commercial inside city: $14.07 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $14.91 for the next 2,000; $15.76…
Storm
Not published. The city publishes no stormwater utility fee, CSO inventory or flooding information; the Ohio EPA-mandated smoke testing implies an inflow-and-infiltration problem in the separate sanitary system, but no storm sewer detail is available.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Water systems in this ZIP
- St. Clairsville, City Of30% of residentsSt. Clairsville Main & Provident Reservoirs (local runoff)
70% of residents live outside every mapped system, most likely on private wells.
Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA source water protection
Infrastructure in this ZIP
1.52 mi of gas transmission pipeline (Rover Pipeline (Energy Transfer)) · 1.27 mi of electric transmission line (AEP Ohio) · 1 fire or EMS station · 1 post office · 4 shale gas wells (Lorraine Clr Bl 2H, Earley-Rose Clr Bl 10H, Lorraine Clr Bl 4H) · 3 bridges and culverts in the inventory.
Draw them6 layers on the mapViolations
No dataMostly private wells, no system record
Source: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026): health-based violations since 2015, all violations since 2020, lead and copper 90th-percentile results, for the system serving most of the ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO
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Drinking-water compliance
Most homes here are on private wells, which EPA does not regulate or test; a well owner tests on their own.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO
Disinfection byproducts
No dataNo byproduct samples on file
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019: total trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids (HAA5) sampled in the distribution system, nitrate, arsenic, combined radium, gross alpha and uranium at entry points; yearly means…
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Byproducts and contaminants
Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody samples for compliance; a well owner tests on their own.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of the system that serves most of this ZIP; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero
PFAS
No dataMostly private wells, untested
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026: 29 PFAS and lithium at 347 Ohio systems) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 (1,479 systems), for the system serving most of each ZIP; Ohio EPA water treatment plant… · Ohio EPA PFAS
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PFAS
Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody tests for PFAS unless the owner pays for it.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS
Lead
No dataMostly private wells, no system record
Source: SDWIS lead and copper 90th-percentile tap results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2 submissions), for the system serving most of each ZIP; Ohio Department of Health high-risk ZIP code list for childhood… · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio
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Lead at the tap
Most homes here are on private wells; lead there comes from the house plumbing, and only a lab test of the tap will find it.
Children: this ZIP is not on the Ohio Department of Health's high-risk list for childhood lead testing; children on Medicaid or in pre-1978 housing with peeling paint should still be tested.
Housing age: 56% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 4% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 81% predate 1980 (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio
Fluoride and treatment
No recordMostly private wells
Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched 2026-09-10); SDWIS treatment table (Envirofacts): each system's registered treatment steps, inherited from the supplier for… · EPA SDWIS search
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Fluoride and treatment
Most homes here are on private wells: no fluoride is added, and any treatment is the household softener or filter.
The health department counts 99.4% of Belmont County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.
Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for the system serving most of this ZIP; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search
Algal toxins
No dataMostly private wells
Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (geo.epa.ohio.gov DrinkingWater/HAB): microcystin results in raw and treated water since 2016 for surface-water systems, for the system serving most of each ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems
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Algal toxins
Most homes here are on private wells, which algal blooms do not reach.
Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems
Groundwater
100 to 120DRASTIC 108 · Interbedded Sedimentary Rocks21 well logs · median 36 ft deep
Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey: DRASTIC groundwater vulnerability polygon at each ZIP's population center, mapped karst features, and the state water well log inventory (about 655,000 logs) counted inside each ZIP; ODNR glacial… · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data
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Groundwater
- Under the surface
- no glacial deposits (unglaciated)
- Bedrock
- Pennsylvania undivided (Monongahelia, Conemaugh, Allegheny and Pottsville Groups), yielding 0 - 5 gpm to a well
- Setting
- Interbedded Sedimentary Rocks; water table 15-30 ft down, 4-7 in/yr recharge, silt loam soil (hydrogeologic setting 7Fa); pesticide index 133
- Well logs
- 21 drilled wells on file (44.3 per 1,000 residents), median 36 ft deep, 2 gallons a minute median test yield, water 20 ft down
- Aquifers
- 100% of wells in bedrock, 0% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 2017, 11 since 2000; uses: Monitor 9, Domestic 8
- Water table
- B-3 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 16.9 mi away: water 28.5 ft below ground on 2026-07-21; averaged 32.2 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 29.9 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 2.3 ft higher; range 15.6 to 56.8 ft over 4,115 readings since 2015
- Nitrate risk
- EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Flat Run-Wheeling Creek subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 19% if it draws on groundwater and 22% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)
- Quality monitoring
- Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Martins Ferry Wellfield (Belmont County), 7 mi away: 69 ft deep in sand and gravel (Ohio River aquifer); bedrock 68 ft down; wells there yield over 500 gallons a minute; sampled on the standard cycle. 5 active wells within 15 mi
Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.
Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data
Aquifer
Under 10% sensitive0% sensitive geologic settingunder 0.5% wellhead protection
Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings (geology/Geology layer 0) intersected with ZCTA polygons; ODNR karst geology at the ZIP center (layer 7, point query) and karst and spring points (layer 5); Ohio EPA source water protection areas… · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey
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Aquifer exposure
- Karst
- no karst-prone bedrock under the population center; no mapped sinkhole inside the ZIP
- Wellhead protection
- less than half a percent of this ZIP lies inside any public water system's five-year wellhead protection area
- Vulnerability index
- DRASTIC 108 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)
Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.
Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey
Sewage plants
4 to 7 quartersBelmont Co Sanitary Sewer Dist.-Pennwood Estates · 2.4 mi5 of 12 quarters in violation · 0.11 MGD
Source: EPA ECHO Clean Water Act facilities, Ohio NPDES permits with a publicly owned treatment works component, plants of 0.1 MGD or more or designated major: nearest plant, design flow, significant-noncompliance status, quarters in… · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder
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Sewage treatment
- Size
- 0.11 million gallons a day design flow
- Compliance
- 5 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in violation (not significant); 7 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years
Sludge source: nearest St Clairsville WWTP, 2.9 mi away; 7 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).
State water loans: no Ohio EPA revolving-fund project inside this ZIP; the nearest is Water Distribution System Improvements - Phases 1 and 2 (Saint Clairsville, 2023, $3.8 million), 3 mi away.
Stormwater: 12% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, mostly the Cloerain Township storm sewer system (2 permit holders overlap the ZIP); the towns, townships and counties that own those storm sewers hold a stormwater permit and must control what runs off streets and parking lots (2020 to 2030 designation).
Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.
Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder
Stream health
Three quarters or more100% of the land drains to streams failing aquatic lifeFlat Run-Wheeling Creek · bacteria (pathogens), salts and sulfates
Source: EPA ATTAINS, Ohio 2024 Integrated Report assessment units (1,545 watershed polygons) overlaid on ZCTAs in Albers equal-area with the Lake Erie units clipped out: share of land in units not supporting aquatic life, recreation, fish… · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map
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Stream health
- Uses failing
- aquatic life 100% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 100%, fish consumption 100%, drinking-water source 0% (that use is assessed on only 13% of the ZIP)
- Causes listed
- bacteria (pathogens) (100%), salts and sulfates (100%), ammonia (87%)
- Cleanup plans
- 0% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget
Watersheds here: Flat Run-Wheeling Creek (not supporting); Cox Run-Wheeling Creek (not supporting).
Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): Steep Run At Barton, Near Mouth, Dst. Co. Rd. 10 on the Steep Run, 0.2 mi away, draining 2 square miles: partial attainment of its modified mine affected use; fish IBI 26 of 60 (2010); bugs rated poor; habitat QHEI 30.5 of 100. 2 assessed sites inside the ZIP, 6 within 3 miles, 49 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.
Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): 3.4 miles of designated streams cross this ZIP: 1.8 mi modified warmwater habitat, 1.7 mi warmwater habitat. Nearest specially protected stream: the Bend fork (Joy fork (RM 4.0) to the mouth), 14.1 mi away, a Superior High Quality Water. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.
Proposed for 2026: the nearest reach Ohio EPA proposes to add to the antidegradation tiers is the Glenns Run, 2.2 mi away, as Superior High Quality Water.
Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Belmont County used about 4 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 7 kg per square mile, 86th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: 2,4-D 962 kg, glyphosate 686 kg, dicamba 434 kg, permethrin 254 kg, sulfur 158 kg. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains.
Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 756 farms work 139,632 acres of Belmont County, with 10.4% of its land in cropland, 185 acres to a farm. 22,441 cattle, 219 hogs, 2,435 laying hens, 377 broilers, 9 turkeys. Sales $27 million, 75% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.
A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.
Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map
Watershed
Drains to the Ohio RiverUpper Ohio-Wheeling subbasinFlat Run-Wheeling Creek · drains to the ohio river
Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset: HUC-8 subbasins by resident share (2020 census blocks) and the HUC-12 subwatershed at each ZIP's population-weighted center with its downstream chain; USGS county water use 2015 (Dieter and others 2018) for… · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels
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Watershed
- Upper Ohio-Wheeling100% of residentsDrains to the Ohio River
H2Ohio: nearest project Restoration of Beatty Park Stream Project, funded 2026, in progress, 20.5 mi away; 0 within 5 miles, 0 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.
The population center sits in the Flat Run-Wheeling Creek subwatershed; its water runs on through Glenns Run-Ohio River, then Boggs Run-Ohio River, then Wegee Creek-Ohio River.
In 2015 Belmont County drew about 12 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 7.6 million for public supply (74% from wells, 62,100 people served at 44 gallons a person a day at home), 3.2 million for mining; 7,000 residents drew their own well water.
EnviroAtlas, Flat Run-Wheeling Creek: no land in the Conservation Reserve Program; 62 miles of streams (2.6 per square mile); water use of 319 thousand gallons a day for homes; 40.4 inches of rain and snow a year; 9.9 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 1.5 kg per hectare a year as manure and 2.6 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 4.7% of the land is paved or roofed; 71% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).
Stream permits: none of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, so stream crossings and fills here can use the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits under Ohio EPA's standing 401 certification (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).
Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels
Home
The houses themselves and what they cost: who lives in them, what a typical one looks like down to the parcel record, how much new housing has gone up, and what a household pays in property tax.
Homes and income
No dataHome value not publishedhousehold income $81,295 · 78% own
Source: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year by ZCTA: median home value, median gross rent, median household income, owner share, median year built; Eviction Lab tract estimates 2016 to 2018 (Gromis and others 2022), population-weighted to ZIPs; HUD fiscal… · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data
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Homes and income
- Household income
- $81,295 median
- Income spread
- 22% of households earn under $25,000 a year, 12% $100,000 or more and 3.2% $200,000 or more
- Owner-occupied
- 78% of 221 occupied homes; 42% of owners carry a mortgage
- Typical home built
- 1957
- Value spread
- 53% of owner-occupied homes are worth under $100,000 and 0.0% $500,000 or more; income per person $34,236 a year
- Moved in
- the typical owner moved in in 2004
- Median age
- 56.4 years
- Commute
- 21 minutes each way on average, 6% of commuters travel 45 minutes or more, 14% work from home
- Housing stock
- 88% single-family detached, 11.8% mobile homes
- Vacancy
- 0.0% of 221 housing units are vacant
- Owner costs
- 39% of owners with a mortgage and 0% of owners without one spend 30% or more of income on housing
- Evictions
- 2.13 eviction filings a year per 100 renter households in 2016 to 2018, 2.13 ending in a judgement (fewer than one filing a year; Eviction Lab)
- Fair market rent
- $1,050 a month for a two-bedroom (one-bedroom $860, three-bedroom $1,350): HUD's fiscal 2026 small-area fair market rent, the benchmark for housing vouchers in the Wheeling, WV-OH MSA area
- Subsidized housing
- no public housing, tax-credit or HUD-assisted multifamily property inside this ZIP
- Banks
- no bank branch inside this ZIP; the nearest, Unified Bank, is 2.6 mi from its center (FDIC); no credit union branch (NCUA)
- Strain
- 0% of households have no vehicle; the median owner with a mortgage spends 16.0% of income on housing costs
Five-year survey averages centered on 2022; small ZIPs carry wide margins of error, and owner-estimated values run below sale prices in a rising market.
Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data
House by house
No dataParcel list only233 homes; the county's appraisal records are not in the atlas yet
Source: Residential parcels (Ohio land-use classes 500 to 599, apartments 401 to 403, farmhouses) placed in ZIPs by scripts/join_parcels.py on 2026-09-15, the houses loading on demand; county auditors' appraisal records, house by house (year… · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats
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Houses and neighborhoods
- Homes
- 227 one-family houses, 2 two-family houses, 4 manufactured homes; also 75 other residential parcels
- Lot
- median 0.22 acres (condominiums left out)
The atlas has only the parcel list here so far: 233 homes with address, land-use class, lot size and, where the county's upload carries one, a link to each parcel's page at the county auditor, from OGRIP's Ohio Statewide Parcels (Belmont County; upload of Jun 15, 2023). OGRIP's copy leaves 2% of the county's parcels without a land-use class, so the list misses some houses. Year built, size, values and sales come from each county auditor's own appraisal records, which are being added county by county outward from Franklin County. The Belmont County Auditor's site shows each parcel's full record.
The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.
Source: OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (Belmont County, upload of Jun 15, 2023); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats
Building permits
No dataHouses not surveyed; county reports 4+ unit buildings onlyBelmont County building department
Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025: new privately owned housing units, buildings and construction value authorized by each Ohio permit office, given to each ZIP through the jurisdiction where most of its… · Census building permits
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Building permits
The Belmont County building department reports only buildings of four or more units and commercial work to the survey (0 such units 2016 to 2025); single-family houses in its unincorporated townships are not counted here, so the zero says nothing about how many houses were built.
Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.
Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits
Home prices
No dataNo FHFA index for this ZIP
Source: FHFA House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted): ten-, five- and one-year changes and the level against… · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data
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Home prices
FHFA publishes no price index for this ZIP: too few repeat sales or refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages to measure.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data
School tax
22 to 25 mills23.6 effective school millsBridgeport Exempted Village · about $1,653 a year on a $200,000 home
Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (DTE 515), joined by IRN and weighted by each ZIP's residents in every district; school levies only; Ohio Department of Taxation The Finder rate… · Ohio tax data series · The Finder
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Local taxes
- Bridgeport Exempted Village
- 23.6 effective mills (43.9 gross); $1,653 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 16.1, bonds 2.5, improvements 0.7, inside millage 4.3.
- Municipal income tax
- None: this is unincorporated township territory (Colerain Township).
- School district income tax
- Bridgeport Exempted Village none. About a third of Ohio districts levy one.
- Sales tax
- 7.25% combined rate in Belmont County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.
A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.
Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder
Utilities and getting around
The companies and networks that keep a house running and a resident moving: electric, gas, phone and internet service, and the roads, transit, rail and airports around it.
Electric
AEP OhioAEP OhioInvestor-owned utility · 72% of residents, then South Central Power Company
Source: PUCO certified electric territories via ODOT plus HIFLD municipal systems (EIA-861) with ODOT corporate limits; EIA-861 reliability (outages), sales to ultimate customers (residential prices and bills), net metering and advanced meters by… · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories
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Who delivers the electricity
- AEP Ohio investor-owned72% of residentsAmerican Electric Power (AEP)
- South Central Power Company co-op28% of residentsBuckeye Power, Inc.
AEP Ohio outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 272 minutes (158 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.1 interruptions a year.
AEP Ohio standard service offer price, 2024: 19.33 cents per kWh, about $174 a month for the average home, for the 550,768 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 788,464 pay AEP Ohio 10.75 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).
AEP Ohio solar and meters, 2024: 11,606 customers run net-metered solar (158.9 MW, 11,036 of them homes); 79% of its 1,541,883 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 21% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).
South Central Power Company outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 320 minutes (201 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 2.5 interruptions a year.
South Central Power Company residential price, 2024: 14.87 cents per kWh, about $160 a month for the average home across 117,469 residential customers (EIA-861).
South Central Power Company solar and meters, 2024: no net-metered solar reported under its own name (Buckeye Power, the co-ops' generation cooperative, files one Ohio net-metering row: 3,058 systems, 32.6 MW in 2024); 100% of its 127,851 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters (EIA-861).
Energy burden: households here spend an average 3.8% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $3,540 a year against $93,653 of income); the 27% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 11.1%, and 42% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).
Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories
Gas
Columbia Gas of OhioColumbia Gas of OhioPUCO-regulated utility · 0% of homes heat with utility gas
Source: PUCO 2026 county map of gas distribution companies, HIFLD/EIA-176 territory polygons, ACS 2020-2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD
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Natural gas here
0% of the 221 homes here heat with utility gas, so gas mains reach little of this ZIP.
Utility gas 0%Electricity 46%Propane or LP 12%Oil, wood, other 42%
- Columbia Gas of Ohio regulated utility100% of residents, main companyNiSource Inc.
Pipes under the street: Columbia Gas of Ohio reported 20,620 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 64% plastic and 6.6% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 3,271 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.
PUCO lists 3 companies operating in Belmont County: Columbia Gas of Ohio, Enbridge Gas Ohio, Knox Energy Cooperative Association, Inc..
Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD
Power plants
10 to 20 milesCardinal · 14.2 micoal, 1,790 MW · 0 plants within 10 miles
Source: EIA-860 power plant inventory via HIFLD (202 Ohio plants, February 2025): nearest plant, nearest plant of 100 MW or more, plants and capacity by fuel within 10 miles; USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database (June 2026) and U.S. Large-Scale Solar… · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones
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Power plants
0 plants within 10 miles totalling 0 MW.
Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones
Pipelines
Transmission line under half a mileNearest transmission line 0.1 miRover Pipeline (interstate) · 1.5 mi of pipe in the ZIP
Source: EIA natural gas interstate and intrastate transmission pipelines via Esri's Federal User Community copy on ArcGIS Online (data last updated July 2025; 1,239 segments in and around Ohio): miles inside each ZIP by operator, distance from the… · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item
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Gas transmission pipelines
1.5 miles of transmission pipe cross this ZIP: Rover Pipeline 1.5 mi.
Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item
Phone
AT&T OhioAT&T OhioIncumbent telephone company
Source: PUCO Telecom map service, layer 7 ILEC Company Service Area (incumbent local exchange carriers, fetched 2026-09-08) by resident share of 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone
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Incumbent telephone company
- AT&T Ohio100% of residentsIncumbent local exchange carrier
Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone
Internet
10 to 25%81% can get 100/20 Mbpsfiber 63% · cable 53% · 340 locations · 17% unserved
Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024, fixed availability by H3 hexagon (Esri Living Atlas, Ohio subset); Census ACS 2020-2024 table B28002 internet subscriptions; Ookla Open Data fixed speed tests 2025 Q2 by tile, averaged inside the… · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS
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Internet
Served, 100/20 Mbps or better 81%Underserved, 25/3 to 100/20 2%Unserved, under 25/3 17%
Fiber reaches 63% of locations, cable 53%; a year earlier 85% were served.
Of 221 households, 60% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 20% rely on a cellular plan only, and 20% have no internet at home.
Measured by Ookla speed tests, April to June 2025: typical fixed download 407.1 Mbps, upload 201 Mbps, 13 ms latency, across 18 tests from up to 8 devices in 5 map tiles.
Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS
Cell signal
5G on 50 to 75%5G on 73% of the land4G or better 100% · AT&T 90% · T-Mobile 82% · Verizon 100%
Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection, carrier-reported 4G LTE and 5G coverage by H3 hexagon (Esri Living Atlas layer last updated 24 November 2025, June 30, 2025 filing round), fetched 2026-09-08; FCC Antenna Structure Registration… · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data
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Cell signal
- AT&T4G 90% · 5G 47%
- T-Mobile4G 82% · 5G 65%
- Verizon4G 100% · 5G 43%
Registered towers: 0 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 7 within 3 miles of its center; the nearest is a 408-foot tower in a 3-tower AM array 1.4 mi away. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.
Coverage as the carriers report it to the FCC for outdoor use at a stationary spot, by land area rather than by residents; indoor signal and rural hollows can be worse.
Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data
EV chargers
2 to 5 milesFast charger 2.7 mi: Whiteside Chevrolet GMC0 public stations in the ZIP (0 Level 2, 0 DC fast ports) · 1 within 5 miles of its center
Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list as of May 29, 2026 (USDOT BTS copy: 2,136 Ohio electric stations, of which the 1,850 public and open are used, NREL restricted-access records such as dealer-service and hotel-guest chargers… · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)
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EV charging
No public station inside this ZIP; the nearest of any kind is Whiteside Chevrolet GMC, 2.7 mi. 1 station within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 1 with DC fast charging.
Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.
Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)
Transit
No transit stop within half a mile of anyone0% within half a mile of a stop0 stops in the ZIP
Source: USDOT BTS National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds: share of residents… · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed
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Public transit
0 stops inside this ZIP; the nearest stop is 2.6 mi from the population center.
Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. The nearest stop may be across the state line, and the out-of-state set may be incomplete. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.
Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed
Walkability
Least walkable (1 to 5.75)Walkability 4.5 of 207 intersections per square mile · 0% near transit
Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by block group, population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census block points · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS
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Walkability
- Street grid
- 7 intersections per square mile, long blocks and country roads
- Transit
- no stop within three-quarters of a mile in the EPA's 2020 transit file
- Mix of uses
- employment mix 0.63 and mix of homes and job types 0.28 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied
- Car-free households
- 0% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)
The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.
Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS
Rail crossings
No public rail crossing in the ZIP0 public crossingsnearest crossing 5.8 mi (Norfolk Southern)
Source: FRA Grade Crossing Inventory (current records, Ohio): open at-grade crossings inside each ZIP, gates, trains a day at the busiest, timetable speed, railroads; nearest crossing to the population-weighted center; FRA highway-rail grade… · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data
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Rail crossings
Belmont County has logged 7 rail accidents since 2010, 7 of them derailments (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.
Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.
Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data
Bridges
No bridge rated poor3 bridges, 0 rated poortypical build year 2000 · busiest Ch 10, 6,436 vehicles a day
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 (26,713 Ohio structures): bridges inside each ZIP, poor-condition ratings, ages, traffic · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)
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Bridges
- Age
- typical bridge built 2000, 1 built before 1950; oldest 1931, Ch 10 over Wheeling Creek
- Busiest
- Ch 10 over Steep Run, 6,436 vehicles a day (2015 count)
- Owners
- county 3
Ratings come from the inspection every bridge gets at least every two years; poor means deterioration that needs repair, not imminent danger. FHWA's file is a yearly snapshot with inspections through early 2025, so a bridge replaced, re-rated or closed since then still shows its old rating here; ODOT's TIMS bridge inventory carries the current one. Traffic figures are the average daily counts the bridge owners filed with the inventory; most Ohio counts date from 2015 and some are older. County engineers own most of Ohio's small bridges and ODOT the big ones.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)
Traffic
Under 5,000 vehicles a day4,416 vehicles a day on county road 10220 trucks · 5K vehicle-miles a day inside the ZIP
Source: ODOT traffic count segments (2025 annual average daily traffic by road segment, ODOT Transportation Information Mapping System): segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024… · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS
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Traffic
- Trucks
- 220 a day on county road 10, 5% of its traffic
- Driving
- about 5K vehicle-miles a day on the 19 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 723 vehicles
- Busiest local road
- county road 10, 4,416 vehicles a day
Annual average daily traffic is both directions combined, averaged over the year. County, township and city roads are labelled by their route number, which ODOT uses instead of the street name. Most city streets have no count, so the busiest local road is the busiest counted one. Interchange ramps are left out of the busiest-road pick; a ZIP with nothing but ramps shows one labelled ramp and its ODOT number.
Road deaths: no fatal crash was recorded inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (NHTSA FARS).
Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS
Airports and Amtrak
30 to 50 milesPIT · 41.5 miPittsburgh International · Amtrak at Pittsburgh, PA 50.4 mi
Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS: nearest airport with scheduled airline service (Part 139 class I), nearest public-use airport, nearest Amtrak station, including out-of-state ones near the border · BTS transportation atlas
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Airports and trains
- Nearest airfield
- Alderman (2P7), St Clairsville, 7.4 mi, public use
- Amtrak
- Pittsburgh station, 50.4 mi (Pittsburgh, PA)
Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.
Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas
Land, air and risk
The ground itself and what can go wrong on it: radon, flood risk, air quality, old mines and wells, and the parks, wetlands and open land still left.
Radon
Too few testsToo few radon tests2 tests reported
Source: Ohio Department of Health radon test results by ZIP code since 2010 (pre-mitigation), ZIPs with five or more tests · ODH radon program
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Radon in this ZIP
50% of tests at or above EPA's 4 pCi/L action level · median 5.2 · highest 7.2
A ZIP average says nothing about one house; readings next door can differ tenfold. Test yours, and fix it at 4 pCi/L or more.
Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program
Flood
2 to 5%4.2% of residents in the 1% floodplain8% of the land is floodplain, 1% more in the 0.2% zone · zone AE
Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, flood hazard zones, fetched 2026-09-08; OpenFEMA NFIP redacted claims for Ohio (frozen June 2026), by reported ZIP; USGS NWIS annual peak flows for the nearest active stream gauge; NOAA Atlas 14… · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges
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Flood zones
8.2% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain, and another 0.7% is in the 0.2% (500-year) zone. Zones mapped here: AE.
Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.1 inches in 24 hours (2.6 in a single hour, 4.0 in six); a 2-year storm 2.4, 10-year 3.4, 25-year 4.0, 500-year 6.4 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.
Nearest river gauge: Wheeling Creek below Blaine OH, 3.3 mi away, draining 98 square miles. Record flow 8,500 cubic feet a second at a stage of 12.54 ft on 2004-09-17; the highest since 2016 was 5,030 on 2024-04-03 (USGS, 38 annual peaks, 1983 to 2025).
9 federal flood insurance policies are in force in this ZIP, covering $875,000 of buildings; 100% of them are in a mapped high-risk zone; the typical policy costs $871 a year (about 4% of households).
16 federal flood insurance claims from this ZIP since 1978, 0 since 2010, paying about $184,402 in all; the worst year was 2004 with 12 claims; 19% of claims came from outside the mapped high-risk zone.
Community status: Belmont County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 04/05/06.
Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.
Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges
Hazard risk
40 to 60Risk score 55 · higher than about 55% of US tractsLightning 96 · Landslide 93
Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, population-weighted to ZIPs · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)
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Natural hazard risk
- Lightning96
- Landslide93
FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $196,007 a year in buildings, crops and lives.
The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 85, tornado 51, winter weather 31.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)
Climate
20 to 30 inches26" of snow a year · 50.8°F averageJanuary low 20° · July high 82° · 43" of precipitation
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals, annual and monthly, 261 Ohio stations; each ZIP takes the nearest station reporting each element from its population-weighted center; U.S. Drought Monitor weekly county statistics 2000 to 2026… · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor
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Climate
- Temperature
- 50.8°F average; typical January low 20°, July high 82°
- Hot and cold days
- 6 days a year reach 90°F; 121 nights fall below freezing, 4 below 0°F; 40 days never climb above freezing
- Rain and snow
- 42.6 inches of precipitation on 87 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 26 inches of snow on 10 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 33 days
- Degree days
- 5,880 heating, 754 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill
Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Belmont County has spent 40 weeks in moderate drought or worse, 26 of them severe or worse (most recently 2 weeks in 2025), and 80 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was exceptional drought in 2024/11; 4% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.
Long run (NOAA, Belmont County): the average year ran 52.0 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 50.4 °F over 1901 to 1930, 1.6 °F warmer (1.8 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 54.4 °F, and 2025 came in at 51.5 °F. Precipitation averaged 43.3 inches a year lately against 42.1 a century ago, 3% more; the wettest year was 2018 with 63.8 inches, and 2025 brought 34.5. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.
Stations: Cadiz (13.8 mi, temperature and precipitation and snowfall; 13 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them; NOAA marks this snowfall normal provisional because the station record is too short or too patchy for a standard normal, and the temperature and precipitation figures here skip stations with under 10 years.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor
Air
7.5 to 8.5PM2.5 8.4 µg/m³ at Steubenville, 21.4 miozone 64 ppb at Steubenville · Belmont County median AQI 42
Source: EPA Air Quality System 2025 annual summaries: nearest PM2.5 and ozone monitors from each ZIP's population-weighted center, county AQI day counts; EPA ECHO Clean Air Act permitted sources in Ohio (air_rest_services, September 2026); EPA… · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO
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Air quality
- Worst days
- 98th-percentile day 17.1 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)
- Ozone
- 64 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Steubenville, 21.4 mi away (standard 70)
- Belmont County AQI, 2025
- 114 good days, 66 moderate, 1 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse of the 181 days indexed; peak 123, median 42
- Air toxics
- 30 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Belmont County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (18) and benzene (4)
- Permitted sources
- no permitted air source operates inside this ZIP; nearest major source Nickles Bakery of Martins Ferry Inc in Martins Ferry, 5.9 mi (EPA ECHO)
- Air standards
- Belmont County is a maintenance area for fine particulate (1997) (Wheeling, WV-OH, redesignated 2013), meaning it once failed that standard and must keep a plan to stay clean (EPA Green Book)
Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.
Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO
Toxic sites
3 to 8 milesNearest NPL site 4.2 mi: Buckeye Reclamation0 toxic-release reporters · 0 Superfund program sites in the ZIP
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service: Superfund NPL and SEMS sites, Toxics Release Inventory reporters (EPA geoplatform), fetched 2026-09-08; the nearest NPL site also considers sites in PA, WV, KY, IN and MI within about 20 miles of the border… · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO
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Toxic and Superfund sites
0 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 0 sites appear in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).
2 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 1 brownfield site in the cleanup program (Barton Vfd), 1 hazardous-waste handler, 0 with air permits, 0 with water discharge permits.
Nearest landfill: Hagan Landfill, 7.4 mi from the center, municipal solid waste landfill. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.
State cleanup program: 0 sites inside this ZIP, 1 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is Blue Ribbon Paint, 2.1 mi from the center, remedial response.
Voluntary cleanups: 0 properties inside this ZIP hold an Ohio EPA covenant not to sue after a Voluntary Action Program cleanup; 0 such properties within 3 miles of the population center, nearest Yorkville Intermodal Terminal 2, 7.7 mi. These are former industrial and commercial sites certified clean enough to reuse.
Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest Kimble Transfer and Recycling - St. Clairsville (transfer station), 2.7 mi from the center; 3 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.
Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): 1 active RCRA handler inside this ZIP; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.
Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Snyder Tire, Wintersville OH, 19.7 mi away; the nearest household battery drop-off is Staples #0590, Saint Clairsville, 3 mi away (2 within 15 mi) (Ohio EPA).
The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO
Toxic releases
No dataNo TRI-reporting facility
Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory basic data files, Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown, 2020 for the trend); facilities placed in the ZCTA holding their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams left out of pound totals · EPA TRI data files
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Toxic releases
No facility inside this ZIP files a Toxics Release Inventory report. Only plants in listed industries with 10 or more workers that handle a listed chemical above its threshold must file, so small shops and most businesses never appear.
Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files
Dams
3 to 54 high-hazard dams within 10 milesNearest: St. Clairsville Reservoir No. 2 Dam, 4.3 mi, condition satisfactory
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams (1,376 Ohio dams, August 2026; 26 Corps levees and dikes counted with their parent dam): high-hazard dams near each ZIP's population-weighted center, with the state's condition… · National Inventory of Dams
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Dams
Nearest high-hazard dam: St. Clairsville Reservoir No. 2 Dam, 4.3 mi, condition satisfactory (water supply, 31 ft high, 87 acre-feet, built 1920, on Jug Run, local government owned).
No inventoried dam sits inside this ZIP.
"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams
Disasters
3 to 55 tornado tracks within 5 miles since 19500 rated F2/EF2+ · 25 federal declarations for Belmont County · 4 quakes M2+ within 25 mi
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025 (tracks within 5 miles of each ZIP's population-weighted center), OpenFEMA disaster declarations by county since 1956, USGS earthquake catalog M2+ since 1970 within 25 miles; NOAA… · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive
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Disasters on record
Strongest nearby: EF1 on 2023-08-12, 1.59 mi track.
25 federal declarations for Belmont County since Ohio's first in 1956 (20 major disasters): severe storm 10, flood 9, biological 2. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).
4 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M2.5 4 km WNW of Claysville, Pennsylvania in 2024.
Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Belmont County): 27 tornado warnings (2016: 1, 2017: 2, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2021: 4, 2022: 2, 2023: 2, 2024: 5, 2025: 1, 2026: 7), 270 severe thunderstorm warnings, 52 flash flood warnings, 63 flood warnings and 51 flood advisories, 11 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 18 heat warnings or advisories, 3 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 7 snow squall warnings; 975 products in all.
Mitigation grants (FEMA): 6 hazard mitigation projects in Belmont County since 2003, worth $2.2 million ($981,883 federal), covering 37 properties; mostly property buyouts, mitigation planning, generators. Largest: property buyouts for Belmont (County), $1.2 million (fiscal 2004).
Mitigated properties: FEMA money has treated 1 property in this ZIP in 2004: 1 bought out and demolished; $50,800 paid. Buyouts turn repeatedly flooded lots into permanent open space.
Disaster aid to households: 70 households in this ZIP registered with FEMA after 3 declared disasters; 55 were approved for $318,315 of housing and other-needs help. Registrations by event: severe storms and flooding (2004): 63; severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides (2005): 5; severe storms, flooding, mudslides and landslides (2004): 2.
161 severe weather reports for Belmont County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 74 damaging thunderstorm wind, 33 flash floods, 32 hail, 14 river and street flooding. Largest hail 2.5 in (May 2, 2025); about $1.7 million in reported damage, the costliest being tornadoes on Oct 21, 2021 ($525K). Zone-wide advisories add 21 winter weather, 10 winter storms, 6 drought.
Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive
Spills
1 to 4 reports2 spills reported since 2021mostly abandoned drums and containers · 1 reached water
Source: Ohio EPA emergency response spill reports (geo.epa.ohio.gov EmergResponse/Spills2_OpenData): cases with a location inside each ZIP, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response
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Spills and releases
- What spilled
- abandoned drums and containers (1), diesel and fuel oil (1)
- Reached water
- 1 of them reached a creek, river, ditch or storm drain (named or unnamed)
- By year
- 2021: 1, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 0, 2025: 0, 2026: 1
Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.
Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response
Oil and gas wells
1 to 10 wells5 wells in the ZIP3 producing · 3 shale · 0 orphan · nearest 0.6 mi
Source: ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources public well inventory (242,324 well heads, fetched 2026-09-08): wells inside each ZIP by status, horizontal shale wells, injection wells, orphan-program wells · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services
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Oil and gas wells
- Status
- 3 producing, 1 plugged or abandoned, the rest drilled but idle, gas storage, orphan, expired permits or unknown
- Shale
- 3 horizontal Utica or Marcellus wells (fracked)
- Operators
- Ascent Resources Utica Llc (3 producing)
Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.
Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services
Abandoned mines
15% or more of the land61% of the land undermined8 mines, 797 acres
Source: ODNR Mines of Ohio: abandoned underground coal and industrial-mineral mines mapped before 1977 (5,116 polygons), overlaid on ZCTA land in Albers equal-area; ODNR Division of Geological Survey industrial minerals locations, 2015 (active… · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey
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Abandoned mines
- FLORENCE
- coal, mapped, 665 acres inside the ZIP
- STANLEY NO.4
- coal, mapped, 43 acres inside the ZIP
- BOGGS
- coal, mapped, 39 acres inside the ZIP
Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.
Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Wheeling Valley (coal (surface), Oxford Mining Co., LLC), 4.9 mi away in Belmont County; 0 within 3 miles, 4 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).
Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey
Soils
Somewhat limitedBrookside-Urban land complex, 3 to 15 percent slopesseptic somewhat limited · moderately well drained
Source: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access: the soil map unit under each ZIP's population-weighted center with its dominant component, drainage, hydric and farmland class, flooding, and the Ohio septic and basement interpretation ratings… · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation
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Soils and septic
- Soil
- Brookside-Urban land complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes; Brookside makes up 45% of the unit, 9% slope
- Water
- moderately well drained; flooding none, ponding none
- Septic
- Somewhat limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule (very limited under the national rule)
- Basements
- Very limited for dwellings with basements
- Farmland
- Not prime farmland
- Elevation
- 837 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill
One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.
Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation
Parks
Under 0.5% of the land0% public land · 0 acresBarkcamp State Park 9.5 mi
Source: USGS Protected Areas Database 4.1 (Ohio state package, flattened combined layer, open-access fee, designation and easement polygons plus the six ODNR state parks PAD-US codes closed by default: Buckeye Lake, Forked Run, Hueston Woods, Lake… · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services
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Parks and public land
Nearest state park: Barkcamp State Park, 9.5 mi.
Trails: no built named trail crosses this ZIP; 2 miles more are proposed or planned; nearest is the National Road Bikeway, 3.8 mi from the ZIP's center (ODNR statewide trails inventory).
Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.
State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: Boat Ramp at Barkcamp State Park, 10.5 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at Salt Fork State Park, 32.6 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Salt Fork State Park, 35.7 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Campground/Campsite at Barkcamp State Park, 10.5 mi (0 within 5 miles).
Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services
Wetlands
Under 1% of the land0.1% wetland · 1 acrepond 1
Source: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, Ohio geodatabase (imagery mostly 2004 to 2007, Lake Erie basin 2021), freshwater wetlands and ponds clipped to each ZIP (lakes and rivers excluded); Ohio EPA potential high-quality vernal pools… · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services
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Wetlands
1 acres pond. Largest single wetland: 1 acre of freshwater pond.
High-quality wetlands: nearest is Seneca Lake (Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District), 38 acres, 31.4 mi away; 0 within 10 miles.
Mitigation sites: nearest Century Mine, 17.6 mi away (a permittee-responsible site under an environmental covenant); 0 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.
Assessed wetland: nearest R and F Beaver, a mitigation wetland, 7 mi away: no ORAM score, plant community index 55 of 100 (surveyed 2007); 2 within 10 miles. Category 3 wetlands are the state's best and hardest to fill; category 1 are degraded.
Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services
Land cover
15% to 40%15% developed · 57% tree canopyforest 67% · pasture 16% · grass and shrub 2%
Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the MRLC consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, pulled as WCS tiles from mrlc.gov and summarised over each ZCTA boundary; USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2025… · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation
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Land cover
- Developed
- 15%: 1% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 5% low (houses on larger lots), 9.0% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)
- Farmland
- 16%: 0.0% row crops, 16% pasture and hay
- Forest
- 67%, plus 1.8% grass and shrub
- Water and wetland
- 0.1% open water, 0.0% wetland
- Paved and roofed
- 3% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in
- Tree canopy
- 57% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy
- Area
- 2 square miles of land
- Before settlement
- the land surveys of the early 1800s mapped this ZIP as 56% oak-sugar maple forest, 22% oak forest and 21% mixed mesophytic forest (ODNR pre-settlement vegetation mapping)
Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.
Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation
People and health
Who lives here and how well: education, jobs, health and life expectancy, and how far the nearest hospital, police station or grocery store sits.
People
25 to 40%29.7% bachelor's or higher100% white · 0% Black · 0% Hispanic · 0% Asian · 0% foreign-born
Source: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year by ZCTA: educational attainment (B15003), race and Hispanic origin (B03002), nativity (B05002), veterans (B21001); IRS Statistics of Income county migration flows 2022 to 2023 for the county; Census Bureau… · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations
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People
- Education
- 29.7% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 12.3% a graduate degree; 57.7% stopped at high school or earlier
- Ages
- 4.6% under 18, 34.6% 65 or older
- Race and origin
- 100% white, 0% Black, 0% Hispanic or Latino, 0% Asian, 0% other or two or more races
- Born abroad
- 0% of residents
- Veterans
- 18.9% of adults
- Households
- 2.1 people per household on average; 28% of households are one person living alone, 33% married couples
- Who lives here
- 3% of households include children, 60% someone 65 or over and 0.0% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 33% are married, 22% never married, 14% divorced and 31% widowed
- Poverty
- 10.5% of residents live below the poverty line, 0.0% of people 65 and over; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.39 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 15.1% (19.1% of children) with a median household income of $58,332 (SAIPE)
- Ancestry
- most often reported: Polish 30%, Hungarian 15%, German 11%
- Movers
- 2.2% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier
- Moving
- 1,827 people moved into Belmont County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 1,853 moved out (net −26, 49,159 stayed put); most arrivals came from Ohio, WV (284), Jefferson, OH (190), Marshall, WV (178); most leavers went to Ohio, WV (251), Jefferson, OH (215), Marshall, WV (124) (IRS)
- Metro or rural
- USDA rural-urban continuum code 3 of 9 for Belmont County: metro - counties in metro areas of fewer than 250,000 population
- Nonprofits
- 1 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP; 100% are 501(c)(3) charities; largest: Barton Volunteer Fire Department ($641,000) (IRS)
- County growth
- Belmont County went from 66,495 people in April 2020 to 64,434 in July 2025 (-3.1%): 2,561 births, 4,824 deaths and a net +418 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 154 moved in from elsewhere in the U.S. and 2 more left for abroad than arrived (Census estimates)
- Since 1900
- First counted in 1810 with 11,097 people and 34,600 by 1850, Belmont County counted 60,875 people in 1900, 87,740 in 1950, 80,917 in 1970, 70,239 in 2000 and 66,495 in 2020; it peaked at 95,614 in 1940 (1.1 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)
Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as the core of a metropolitan area (rural-urban commuting area code 1 of 10, 2020 edition).
Race shares follow the Census categories, with Hispanic origin counted separately from race. Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.
Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations
Jobs
Under 0.25 jobs per employed resident18 jobs · 211 employed residentsConstruction leads
Source: Census LEHD LODES 8, 2023, all jobs: workplace and residence counts by census block summed into ZCTAs (workplace-only blocks by block-group or tract majority), origin-destination flows for where residents work; Census ZIP Code Business… · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones
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Jobs and commuting
Largest employers by sector: Construction 10, Finance and insurance 6, Public administration 2. 33% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 64% of residents' jobs do.
County labor market: Belmont County's unemployment rate was 4.0% in July 2026 (5.5% a year earlier), with 26,647 people in the labor force and 1,053 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $1,076 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 6.0% on the year) to 19,486 workers at 1,637 establishments, employment down 4.6%; the largest private sectors are retail (3,328 jobs, $634 a week), health care and social assistance (2,985 jobs, $976 a week), restaurants and hotels (2,404 jobs, $390 a week). (BLS)
Working-age residents: 49.7% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, and 11.8% of the civilian labor force was unemployed, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS). Residents' most common occupations: production 25%, management and business 19%, food service 17%; 0% are self-employed and 5% work for a government.
Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $82,000 in contracts performed in Belmont County ($1 a resident) and $146 million in grants ($2,198 a resident), plus $86,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $619 million in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).
County economy: Belmont County produced $2.8 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, down 16.7% since 2019); personal income came to $54,976 a person in 2024, 46th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 30% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).
County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Belmont County is a metro county with a mining-dependent economy, with none of the ERS distress flags.
How they get there: 79% drive alone, 7.2% carpool, 0% transit, 0% walk, 0% bike, 13.8% work from home (ACS).
Where residents work: 2% inside this ZIP; 27% in Saint Clairsville (43950), 9% in Martins Ferry (43935), 8% in Bridgeport (43912) (shares of the 134 residents with an Ohio workplace). 37% of all employed residents work outside Ohio, which the flow data does not track.
Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).
Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones
Upward mobility
45th to 50thPercentile rank 47.9income rank at 35 for children of low-income parents · 0.71% incarcerated in 2010
Source: Opportunity Atlas (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, Census Bureau): tract outcomes for children born 1978 to 1983, population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data
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Upward mobility
- Meaning
- clearly above the Ohio median of 42 for low-income children
- Incarceration
- 0.71% of those children were in jail or prison on census day 2010
- Coverage
- 100% of the ZIP's residents live in tracts with an estimate
The rank describes people born around 1980 who were children here in the 1980s and 1990s; neighbourhoods change, so it is a record of what the place did for one generation, not a forecast. Estimates for small tracts are noisy.
Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data
Social vulnerability
Average tract rank in Ohio's least vulnerable fifth14th percentile of Ohio tractssocioeconomic 12 · household 46 · minority status 5 · housing and transport 22
Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022 by census tract (percentile ranks among Ohio tracts), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI
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Social vulnerability
- Socioeconomic status
- 12th percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance
- Household characteristics
- 46th: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English
- Racial and ethnic minority status
- 5th
- Housing and transportation
- 22nd: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters
The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.
Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI
Health
16 to 20%17.8% in fair or poor healthobesity 38.7% · diabetes 11.9% · smoking 15.9% · depression 26.8%
Source: CDC PLACES 2025 release, ZCTA model-based estimates of adult health (BRFSS 2023, ACS): fair or poor health, obesity, diabetes, smoking, depression, uninsured and more; County Health Rankings 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health… · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data
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Community health
- Weight and activity
- obesity 38.7%, no leisure-time physical activity 27.1%
- Chronic conditions
- diabetes 11.9%, high blood pressure 37.1%, COPD 7.7%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 9.6%
- Habits
- current smoking 15.9%, binge drinking 17.3%, short sleep 37.2%
- Mind
- depression 26.8%, frequent mental distress 17.5%, feeling lonely 33.1%
- Access
- uninsured under 65 6.4%, yearly checkup 80.1%, dental visit 66.1%
- Hardship
- any disability 27.8%, food insecurity 10.1%
- Heart and lungs
- current asthma 11.3%, coronary heart disease 6.6%, stroke 3.3%, arthritis 31.6%
- Keeping up
- 79.8% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 88.2% had a cholesterol check in 5 years
- Social needs
- housing insecurity 9.0%, no reliable transportation 5.9%, utility shut-off threat 6.4%, lacking emotional support 19.8%
- Provider shortage
- 100% live in an area HRSA designates a primary care shortage area for its low-income residents (score 16 of 25); 100% live in an area HRSA designates a dental shortage area for its low-income residents (score 13 of 26); 100% live in an area HRSA designates a mental health shortage area for its low-income residents (score 17 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)
- Coverage (Census)
- 0.0% of residents have no health insurance; 11% are on Medicaid and 46% have coverage through an employer
- Disability (Census)
- 27.5% of residents report a disability, 23% of those 65 and over
County (County Health Rankings 2025): Belmont County sits in health group 5 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 6 for community conditions. Premature death 10,341 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 3,658 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 389 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 2,113 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 4,689 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 90.7 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 17.0 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 6.3 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 21.6 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 21.0 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 7.7 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; no community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 10 deaths in the 12 months ending July 2025 (20 a year earlier, 37 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending June 2023), about 15.4 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide in the 12 months ending December 2025; the county count has been suppressed (1 to 9 deaths) in every later month (CDC provisional counts).
Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Belmont County records 493.7 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 479 cases a year, with the rate stable; cancer deaths 170.4 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 71.7 (63.6), colorectal 45.6 (38.4), female breast 127.3 (133), prostate 104.6 (120.8), bladder 22.2 (21.8), leukemia 16 (13).
Medicare: 16,893 people in Belmont County were on Medicare in 2025 (26% of residents): 15,028 aged 65 or over and 1,865 younger people with disabilities. 58% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 17% also had Medicaid and 80% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 5% since 2020 (CMS).
Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.
Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data
Life expectancy
79 to 8280.9 years life expectancy1 tract, 80.9
Source: CDC/NCHS U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP, deaths 2010-2015, 2010 census tracts) weighted into ZIPs by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP
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Life expectancy
Ohio's statewide figure for the same years was 77.6; the United States 78.7. Differences of a year or two between neighbouring ZIPs are within the estimates' error; differences of five or more are real and track income, smoking and access to care.
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP
Hospitals
6 to 10 milesEast Ohio Hospital, Llc · 6.4 miMartins Ferry · 120 beds · 1 within 10 miles
Source: CMS Timely and Effective Care measure OP_18b (median emergency department time, October 2024 to September 2025); Veterans Health Administration medical facilities (HIFLD copy of the VA station list, S_STATE OH); HRSA health center service… · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files
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Nearest hospital
120 beds · no trauma designation listed · 1 general or critical-access hospital within 10 miles, 4 within 25.
Medicare rating: ★★☆☆☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 124 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)
Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 11.1% (about the national rate), pneumonia 17.1% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025; the patient-safety composite for serious complications (July 2022 to June 2024) is about the national value (Medicare).
Community health center: nearest Southeast, Inc. - Martins Ferry Health Center, Martins Ferry, 6.2 mi away; 0 within 3 miles, 6 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.
Veterans: nearest VA site is Belmont County VA Clinic, St. Clairsville (multi-specialty outpatient clinic), 3 mi away; 1 VA site within 10 miles, 1 within 25.
Providers: 1 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP (NPPES registry, August 2026).
Dialysis: nearest Davita National Road, Bridgeport, 5.3 mi away, 14 stations, Medicare ★☆☆☆☆ (DaVita); 0 within 5 miles, 2 within 15.
Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files
Nursing homes
3 to 6 milesSIENNA HILLS NURSING & REHABILITATION · 3.2 mi3 of 5 stars · 43 beds · 5 within 5 miles
Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider file (922 Ohio homes), addresses geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (67 unmatched placed at their ZIP center); CMS penalties file (fines and payment denials since 2023, matched by name and… · CMS Care Compare data
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Nursing homes
5 certified homes within 5 miles, 9 within 15.
- Medicare rating
- ★★★☆☆ overall; inspections ★★★☆☆; staffing ★☆☆☆☆
- Beds
- 43 certified
- Ownership
- For profit, corporation
- Penalties
- no federal fines or payment denials since 2023 (CMS)
Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.
Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data
Crime
2.5 to 53.5 violent offenses per 1,000Belmont County Sheriff · 3.4 property per 1,000 · 12 months
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer NIBRS incident files for Ohio, 2024 (2023 file for the trend): Group A offenses counted per reporting agency, offenses against persons counted per victim, with each ZIP assigned the police department of its largest… · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service
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Crime
- Violent
- 99 offenses: 0 murders, 8 rapes, 3 robberies, 88 aggravated assaults (3.5 per 1,000 residents; Ohio 3.2)
- Property
- 97 offenses: 11 burglaries, 78 thefts, 7 vehicle thefts (3.4 per 1,000; Ohio 16.9)
- Other
- 94 simple assaults, 28 vandalism reports, 118 drug offenses, 8 weapons violations
- Reporting
- 12 months of 2024 on file; 28,378 residents served
- Trend
- violent offenses up 36% from 73 in 2023; property down 20% from 121
Rates cover the whole agency's territory, not this ZIP alone: a city's downtown and its quiet edges share one number. Murders, rapes and assaults are counted once per victim and other offenses once per incident, as the FBI's Crime Data Explorer does; a large department's figures can still fall somewhat short of the Explorer's, which takes in later submissions, and a sheriff's population is only the unincorporated area it serves.
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service
Police
2 to 4 milesSaint Clairsville Police Department · 3.7 mi0 stations within 3 miles · post office 0.2 mi
Source: USGS National Map structures: police stations (773 Ohio points: the inventory's 731 less 3 closed or duplicate records, with 4 wrong names corrected, plus 45 departments and sheriff's offices it lacks, placed from OpenStreetMap or the… · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder
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Police and post office
0 stations within 3 miles, 7 within 8.
Nearest post office: Barton Post Office, 0.2 mi; 1 inside this ZIP.
Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.
Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder
Fire and EMS
Under 1 mileBarton Volunteer Fire Department Station 13 · 0.2 mi3 stations within 3 miles, 20 within 8
Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022): 1,772 Ohio stations after removing duplicate records and checking Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations against the cities'… · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations
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Fire and EMS
3 stations within 3 miles, 20 within 8.
Inside this ZIP: Barton Volunteer Fire Department Station 13.
Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations
Libraries
2 to 4 milesSt. Clairsville Public Library · 3.7 mi0 within 3 miles, 5 within 8
Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 outlet and system files (720 open Ohio central libraries and branches of 251 systems, plus 62 bookmobiles); straight-line miles from each ZIP's population-weighted center; IMLS Museum Data Files 2018… · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files
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Public library
0 libraries within 3 miles, 5 within 8.
- Open
- about 52 hours a week
- Building
- 9,216 square feet
- St. Clairsville Public Library
- 1 building, serves 16K people, 3.7 visits per resident a year, 120K items lent, 387 programs, $993K annual income
Museums: nearest Cumberland Trail Genealogical Society, historical society, St Clairsville, 3.8 mi away; 1 within 5 miles, 12 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files
Groceries
No residents in a flagged tractNo residents in a low-income, low-access tract88% over 1 mile from a supermarket
Source: USDA Food Access Research Atlas 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 tracts, ERS's name for the file since July 2026) weighted by 2020 block population: distance to the nearest supermarket and low-income low-access flags; Census ACS… · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS
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Grocery access
- Distance
- 95% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 88% more than 1 mile
- Without a car
- 0% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access; 0% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)
- Poverty
- 5.9% of residents below the poverty line
- SNAP stores
- no supermarket or grocery store inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 0 convenience stores; nearest supermarket or grocery store Aldi (supermarket), 2.6 mi from the ZIP's center; 3 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)
- Setting
- 0% of residents in urban tracts, across 1 tract
A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.
Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS
History, schools and government
How the place began, who governs it now, and the schools that serve it, from the district boundary to its state report card.
Local history
No datahistory not researched yet
Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality… · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)
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History
The history of this area has not been researched yet; the work runs county by county outward from Franklin County.
Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality and township, loaded on demand; Native American history per county and statewide from the same sources and the nations' own histories · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)
Historic places
No listed place in the ZIP0 listed historic placesnearest: Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House, 2.6 mi
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file (3,286 points for 3,232 of Ohio's roughly 4,200 listings; listings without a point are not counted, and a listing with several points is counted once); listings inside… · National Register data · USGS GNIS
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Historic places
Nearest listing: Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House, Colerain Township, 2.6 mi (certified 2009).
Place names (USGS): 1 named community (Barton); 2 named streams end here (Steep Run, Town Run). Federal maps carry these names; the communities include hamlets and crossroads that never incorporated.
Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS
Schools
49 exempted village school districtsBridgeport Exempted VillageExempted village school district
Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP 2014 via ODOT) by resident share; NCES EDGE 2024-25 school buildings; NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 public-use file (schools inside the ZIP by coordinates); Census ACS 2020-2024 B14002 school… · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)
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School district
- Bridgeport Exempted Village100% of residentsExempted village school district
0 public schools inside this ZIP. Nearest to the population center: St Clairsville Elementary School, 3.3 mi; 0 within a mile, 0 within 3.
Money, fiscal 2023: Bridgeport Exempted Village took in $12.7 million, 53% from the state, 28% local and 19% federal, and spent $15,736 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 749 students, 61% of it on instruction; capital outlay $0.4 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).
Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 24% of Bridgeport Exempted Village's school-age children below the poverty line (188 of 791 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).
Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)
School ratings
3 stars3 stars overallBridgeport Exempted Village · performance index 72% of the year's maximum · 95.8% graduate in four years
Source: Ohio School Report Cards 2024-2025 (Department of Education and Workforce): district overall and component star ratings, performance index, graduation rates, spending per pupil and teacher measures, for the district holding the largest… · Ohio school report cards
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- Components
- achievement 3 stars, progress 1 star, gap closing 3 stars, early literacy 3 stars, graduation 4 stars, college and career readiness 4 stars
- Achievement
- performance index 72% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 79, 81.1 the year before)
- Graduation
- 95.8% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 75% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness
- Spending
- $12,577 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide
- Teachers
- average salary $53,810, 11 years of experience, 42.1% with a master's degree, 16.6% in their first years of teaching
- Enrollment
- 749 students in 2024-25
Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.
Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards
Colleges
3 to 8 milesElite Academy of Hair Design · 4.7 miBridgeport · 3 campuses within 10 miles
Source: NCES IPEDS: 2024 institutional directory (269 active Ohio institutions with coordinates, less the administrative units and the colleges in data/ipeds/closed.json that have closed since), 12-month enrollment 2023-24, published tuition and… · NCES IPEDS
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Colleges
Elite Academy of Hair Design is a for-profit career school with 107 students over the 2023-24 year.
3 institutions within 10 miles, 5 within 25.
Next nearest: Belmont College (6.9 mi).
Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.
Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS
Local government
1308 townshipsColerain Township, Belmont CountyLocal government for nearly all residents
Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries by resident share of 2020 census blocks; Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements, MapServer layer 8); Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)
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Local government
- Colerain Township, Belmont County100% of residentsTownship
Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)
Representatives
OH-6 · Michael Rulli (R)Senate 30 Brian M. Chavez · House 96 Ron Ferguson
Source: ODOT TIMS Boundaries US_House_District, Ohio_Senate_District and Ohio_House_District (fetched 2026-09-08) by resident share of 2020 census blocks; members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS
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Who represents this ZIP
U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)
- Michael Rulli RU.S. House OH-6Salem · since 2024 · site
- Brian M. Chavez ROhio Senate 30Marietta · since 2023 · site
- Ron Ferguson ROhio House 96Wintersville · since 2020 · site
Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS
Around here
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The county
Belmont County: 23 ZIP codes, 29 cities, villages and townships, 64,982 people. The county in numbers.
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Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "43905 · Colerain Township and Barton, Belmont County", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/zip/43905/, built 2026-09-15, accessed [date].
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