3 nursing jobs in Lucasville, OH

Lucasville is a small Scioto County community, not a city of named urban districts; Nextdoor’s 2025 rankings put Madison Township first as a peaceful rural area with a family-like feel (friendliness scored 100, affordability 73). Bottoms is a quiet, close-knit residential pocket where neighbors say everyone knows each other; Riddlebarger is described as clean, hilly, dog- and family-friendly; Jacob Cem/Fallen Timber and Slate Run are quieter rural stretches with natural scenery and easier access to local amenities.

Lucasville proper is the close-knit village core known for its annual fair and highly regarded local schools. Nurses on an $80k–$150k salary would typically buy or rent here or in nearby McDermott, Minford, Piketon, New Boston, or Portsmouth and drive rather than live in a walkable hospital district.

Median house value is listed around $148,000 with two-bedroom rent about $790; housing’s cost-of-living sub-index is 63.8 versus an overall Lucasville index of 81.4. Typical owner costs are about $1,115/month with a mortgage and $410 without; electricity about $112/month; owner-occupancy 71.5%, rental vacancy 7.8%, one-year appreciation 3.7%, foreclosure 0.8%. Listings in the pack sit on rural roads—1091 Edwards Rd., 3508 Left Fork Rd., and multiple State Route 104 addresses—not downtown condos.

On an $80k–$150k nursing wage versus local household income around $52,900, buying is unusually attainable; inventory is small-town/rural houses, not new apartment product (new-construction rate 0.6%).

Average commute is listed at 25.7 minutes, and only 0.5% of residents use public transit, so a car is effectively required. The main hospital in the evidence pack is Southern Ohio Medical Center (general/surgical with emergency services) at 1805 27th St., Portsmouth, about 13 miles from Lucasville—the same distance given for Shawnee State University.

State Route 104 is a primary local spine (Valley Elementary sits at 16350 State Route 104; several listed homes are on St. Rt. 104).

Nearby job/errand towns include Portsmouth, New Boston, Sciotoville, Minford, Piketon, and McDermott. Ohio BMV service for the area is in Portsmouth at 1505 11th St., not in Lucasville itself.

Lucasville itself is not described as having a restaurant district or late-night hospital-strip scene; a Facebook Ohio road-trip thread on what to do near Lucasville points people to Bells Farm on Water Street as “the best place to eat” and to The Ribber, both in the broader Chillicothe/southern-Ohio outing pattern rather than in-village. Everyday eating-out culture in Ohio is generally cheaper than coastal cities, but in a ~2,000–2,700-person village you should plan on driving to Portsmouth (SOMC/Shawnee State) or Chillicothe for a real night out.

No named coffee shops, late-night diners, or hospital-adjacent spots in Lucasville appear in these sources.

Day-trip outdoors named near Lucasville include Adena Mansion and Hopewell National Park (Hopewell Culture) plus eating stops on the same Chillicothe-area loop. Yelp’s Lucasville “things to do” list surfaces Glen Helen Nature Preserve and Hocking Hills State Park—regional southern/central Ohio hiking destinations rather than in-town parks.

Statewide guides treat Hocking Hills as Ohio’s standout hiking, camping, and foliage landscape, with four-season state-park recreation (hiking, fishing, camping). Eventbrite also flags the Paint Creek Trail toward Chillicothe.

There is no sourced in-village trail system, riverwalk, or named Lucasville park in this pack; outdoor life is rural scenery plus drives to Scioto/Ross County and Hocking Hills.

The one named local tradition is Lucasville’s annual fair, which Nextdoor neighbors treat as a marker of community spirit. Higher-ed and a slightly larger cultural orbit sit 13 miles away at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth (about 3,400 students).

Event listings geotagged to Lucasville are sparse and often regional (e.g., a Paint Creek Trail tour to Chillicothe; a PMP bootcamp in Huntington, WV). Ohio-wide culture that would actually be a drive from here is sports fandom, craft beer, and small-town festivals—not a resident symphony, brewery row, or nightlife district in the village.

Expect church, school, and fair-centered social life, with Portsmouth/Chillicothe for anything resembling a night out.

Lucasville-specific ranges: winter about 23–39°F, spring 44–68°F, summer 65–86°F, fall 46–69°F, with 41.2 inches of rain and 56% sunny days. Southern Ohio summers can push past 90°F with high humidity (heat exhaustion risk if you are used to dry climates); winters bring freezing nights, snow and ice, and hazardous driving even if this is not Cleveland-style lake-effect snow.

Fall is the scenic season statewide; spring is mild but wet. A newcomer should budget for a real winter coat, ice-capable tires, and humid-summer AC—not a mild coastal year.

Public schools named are Valley Elementary (16350 State Route 104, 410 students, 16.3 student-teacher ratio) and Valley High School (1821 State Route 728, 320 students, 15.7 ratio); 86.4% of adults have a high school diploma or more, 13.2% a bachelor’s or more. Nextdoor neighbors specifically call local schools highly regarded and the village a good place to raise a family; Riddlebarger and Madison Township get family-friendly tags.

Violent crime is listed at 145 per 100k (about 1 in 690) and property crime 1,130 per 100k (1 in 88); AreaVibes says overall crime is 63% below the Ohio average. Poverty is 15.8% and median age about 40–41, so it is a working rural community more than a young-professional bubble; Shawnee State in Portsmouth is the nearby college option.

Nextdoor neighbors repeatedly call Lucasville peaceful, rural, and close-knit: Madison Township feels like family, Bottoms is a place where everyone knows each other, and the village core is praised for its annual fair, community spirit, and schools that are “highly regarded” for raising kids. AreaVibes scores livability 76/100 (“exceptional”) and says crime is 63% lower than the Ohio average.

Statewide Ohio commentary is more mixed—affordable housing and four-season outdoors versus humid summers, snowy winters, limited rural transit, a rust-belt job-market reputation, and some residents saying people “get stuck” in Ohio—which matters more if you expected urban nightlife than if you wanted a quiet Scioto County village.