Amherst, Ohio.
Typical home $281,991 (+5.6% in a year), asking rent $1,993 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Amherst
Amherst’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Amherst is in Lorain County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Amherst Exempted Village and Firelands Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$831 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,914 +6%
- $267,077$281,991 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,965 +33%
- $212,026$281,991 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Amherst$1,480
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Amherst, OH rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio
Amherst is a city of 12,681 people in Lorain County. Half its households earn more than $90,725 a year and half less, against $73,347 across Lorain County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Lorain County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Amherst is a city in Lorain County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run higher than across the county. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and fewer live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in Amherst are Advancepierre Foods, a frozen specialty food maker, Amherst Exempted Village Schools, and Target. Unemployment across Lorain County is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Allen Memorial Art Museum is a short drive away, as are the Black River and the Vermilion River for time by the water. For a longer outing, Cedar Point amusement park and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a museum, are each a longer drive away.
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- 4,830households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lorain County had 99,738 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elyria Lorain County Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Amherst
- Nordson Corp
- Amherst Exempted Village Schools
- Tyson Foods
- City of Amherst
- University Hospitals Health System
- Bon Secours Mercy Health
- Amherst Manor
- KTM North America
From the City of Amherst’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Tax Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amherst’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Lorain County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Amherst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amherst$281,991
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Amherst listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Amherst24.11%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Amherst50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Amherst21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Amherst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amherst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.