Brewster, Ohio.
Typical home $170,968 (+2.3% in a year). Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Brewster
Brewster’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Brewster is in Stark County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Fairless Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$454 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,764 +2%
- $167,204$170,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,498 +23%
- $139,470$170,968 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.
- Brewster$897
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Brewster, OH rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brewster, Stark County, Ohio
Brewster is a village of 2,113 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $57,192 a year and half less, against $67,934 across Stark County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Stark County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brewster is a small village in Stark County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with summers that turn warm in July and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Brewster are Fairless Local Schools, Shearer's Foods, a potato chip maker, and Brewster Parke Senior Living Community. Across Stark County, jobs have slipped slightly from the year before, and unemployment has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Fort Laurens, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is one of the best known museums in the area, and the First Ladies National Historic Site offers another museum visit. Each of those is a longer drive.
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- 798households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 157,374 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer 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 81° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wooster Sse weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brewster
- Fairless Local SchoolsSchool district319FTE
- Shearer's Foods - BRWPotato chips manufacturing312
- Brewster Parke Senior Living CommunitySkilled nursing facilities86
- Brewster ParkeAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 449 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brewster’s census tracts, 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 Stark County and the Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Brewster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brewster$170,968
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brewster9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brewster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brewster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.