Bay Village, Ohio.
Typical home $421,998 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $2,700 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bay Village
Bay Village’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bay Village is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bay Village City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,239 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,140 +4%
- $403,859$421,998 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,761 +35%
- $312,238$421,998 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.
- Bay Village$2,215
- 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 Bay Village, OH rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bay Village, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Bay Village is a city of 16,163 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $132,254 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Cuyahoga County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bay Village is a city on Cleveland's west side, and it is a place where most homes are lived in by their owners, far more than across the county. Incomes run well above the county's, relatively few residents live below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. The population is somewhat older than in many places, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and a steady amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and manufacturing. In Bay Village itself, the largest workplaces include Bay Village City Schools and Heinen's grocery stores. Unemployment across Cuyahoga County is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Rocky River is a short drive away and the nearest of the places worth knowing. Farther off, a longer drive takes you to the Cleveland Museum of Art and to Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the best known museums in the region, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6,142households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cuyahoga County had 692,694 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer 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 84° and lows near 65°. About 64 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bay Village
- Bay Village City SchoolsSchool district582FTE
- Heinen'sGrocery stores142
- Bay VillageMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 168 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bay Village’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 Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Bay Village home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bay Village$421,998
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bay Village listings, and the typical home goes pending in 5 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.
- Bay Village24.61%
- 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.
- Bay Village53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bay Village22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bay Village$436,917
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Bay Village address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bay Village — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.