Barberton, Ohio.
Typical home $155,520 (+3.2% in a year), asking rent $1,214 . Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Barberton
Barberton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Barberton is in Summit County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 4 school districts: Barberton City, Coventry Local, Northwest Local and Norton City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$471 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,824 +3%
- $150,695$155,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,192 +34%
- $116,328$155,520 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.
- Barberton$816
- 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 Barberton, OH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barberton, Summit County, Ohio
Barberton is a city of 25,191 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $52,267 a year and half less, against $71,622 across Summit County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Barberton was 4.1% in August 2026, and Summit County had 0.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barberton is a city in Summit County, Ohio, with a mix of homeowners and renters, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than many places. Winters are cold, with a long stretch of freezing weather around January, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Barberton are BWX Technologies, Barberton City Schools and the Barberton Campus hospital. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, though jobs across Summit County have dipped slightly, and a typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Akron Zoo and the Akron Art Museum offer easy outings, and Portage Lakes State Park is a protected area close by for time outdoors. A longer drive takes you to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, one of the best known green spaces in the region.
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- 10,974households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summit County had 259,891 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Fulton International Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Barberton
- Babcock and Wilcox Companies2,940
- Summa Health Systems1,030
- Barberton Board of Education560
- City of Barberton310
- Christian Healthcare Ministries, Inc.230
- Wright Tool Company180
- PPG Industries, Inc.170
- Compass Systems Sales LLC160
From the City of Barberton’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “CCA Division of Taxation and RITA (Regional Income Tax Agency)”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Hailrelatively high in parts of BarbertonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of BarbertonRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barberton’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 Summit County and the Akron, OH metro.
Barberton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barberton$155,520
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barberton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Barberton25.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Barberton7
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barberton78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barberton36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Barberton$167,614
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Barberton99.79%
Zip codes with a Barberton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barberton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.