Boardman, Ohio.
Typical home $199,651 (+4.4% in a year), asking rent $1,026 (+2.0%). Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Property tax and schools in Boardman
Boardman is in Mahoning County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$634 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,493 +4%
- $191,158$199,651 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,914 +41%
- $141,737$199,651 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.
- Boardman$1,048
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Boardman, OH rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Boardman, OH rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Boardman runs $452/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $1,478 a month against $1,026 rent: a $1,048 mortgage payment, plus $217 property tax and $214 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Boardman
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,478
- Renting$1,026
- Mortgage only$1,048
Property tax · $217/mo 1.30% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Mahoning County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $214/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Boardman, Mahoning County, Ohio
Boardman is a township of 40,213 people in Mahoning County. Half its households earn more than $66,619 a year and half less, against $56,942 across Mahoning County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Mahoning County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Boardman is a township in Mahoning County, Ohio, and a fairly large one for its kind. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Boardman are St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, Boardman Local Schools and Walmart. Across Mahoning County, unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs slipped slightly over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Mill Creek Park, a large protected area, lies in or beside town and gives residents green space close to home. A short drive away are the Butler Institute of American Art, a museum, and Fellows Riverside Gardens, a botanical garden. Stambaugh Auditorium, a theatre, is also a short drive away.
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- 18,277households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mahoning County had 93,307 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 28 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warren South weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boardman
- THE Surgical Hospital at SouthwoodsGeneral hospital996FTE
- St Elizabeth Boardman Health CTRGeneral hospital884FTE
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron - Mahoning ValleyChildren's hospitals, general849
- Boardman Local SchoolsSchool district636FTE
- Simon Roofing and Sheet Metal - CorportionRoofing contractors422
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Schwebel Baking CompanyCommercial bakery304
- General Extrusions InternationalAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum215
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,796 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mahoning County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Mahoning County and the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Boardman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boardman$199,651
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Boardman listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 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.
- Boardman27.82%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Boardman20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boardman161
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boardman55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Boardman$206,691
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Boardman97.76%
Zip codes with a Boardman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boardman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.