Avon Lake, Ohio.
Typical home $428,898 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,170 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Avon Lake
Avon Lake’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Avon Lake is in Lorain County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Avon Lake City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,255 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,340 +4%
- $411,558$428,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,670 +31%
- $327,228$428,898 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.
- Avon Lake$2,251
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Avon Lake, OH rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio
Avon Lake is a city of 25,206 people in Lorain County. Half its households earn more than $115,567 a year and half less, against $73,347 across Lorain County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Avon Lake was 1.4% in August 2026, and Lorain County had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avon Lake is a city on the Lake Erie shore in Lorain County, with a population that is older than the typical American community and a household income well above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents work from home. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Jobs in Avon Lake lean toward schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in town are Avon Lake City Schools, Grace Management Services and National Fleet Services of Ohio. Unemployment is low and has fallen over the past year, and across Lorain County the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. The Black River and the Rocky River are a short drive away, both good for time near the water. A longer drive east brings Cleveland and its best-known sights, among them the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a museum, and Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Cleveland Museum of Art is also a longer drive away.
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- 10,896households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 22%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 36° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 44 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elyria East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avon Lake
- Avon Lake City SchoolsSchool district755FTE
- Grace Management ServicesNursing homes225
- National Fleet Services of OhioAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing126
- GEM Industrial Inc. - Ford Avon LakeAddition, alteration and renovation, industrial building111
- CSIG Shared Services GroupResidential property managing107
- Reworld TronNon- hazardous waste disposal87
- GEON Performance SolutionsSiding, plastics, manufacturing82
- Avient Corporation - Engineered Materials Plant (AVL)Polyethylene resins manufacturing79
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,247 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
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 Avon Lake’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Avon Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avon Lake$428,898
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Avon Lake 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.
- Avon Lake23.07%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Avon Lake10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avon Lake74
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Avon Lake35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Avon Lake$370,524
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Avon Lake100.06%
Zip codes with a Avon Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avon Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.