Bellevue Homes for Sale

Bellevue is the smallest market on this list at about 5,600 people, and the most owner-occupied at 70.1%. It is a compact river town nine minutes from Downtown Cincinnati, built around the Historic Fairfield Avenue Business District, which the city has deliberately developed as a walkable strip of independent shops and restaurants rather than letting it turn into a commuter pass-through. It suits buyers who want a small town they can walk across with a downtown commute most suburbs cannot match.

Bellevue Independent Schools is the city's own district, one of several very small independent districts in Campbell County. Kentucky rates districts on a five-color accountability scale rather than Ohio's star ratings, so compare Kentucky districts against each other rather than against the Ohio suburbs on this list.

The Historic Fairfield Avenue Business District is the center of the city, and the Bellevue Entertainment District covers the bars and restaurants along it. The city runs Fall Fest each year, a nighttime craft fair along the avenue. The Ohio River frontage and the short bridge access to Cincinnati are the reason the street has held its independent tenants.

Median home value is $206,500, the second lowest of the six, with median gross rent at $1,265. Owner-occupancy of 70.1% is the highest on this list, so rental inventory is genuinely scarce here. Note that Bellevue's small population means wider Census margins of error on these medians than on Florence or Covington, so treat them as directional rather than precise.

Bellevue runs its own school district for a city of under six thousand people, which is normal in Campbell County and unusual almost everywhere else. Kentucky's occupational license tax stacks a city rate on a county rate rather than charging one flat municipal rate the way Ohio does.