Chardon, Ohio.
Typical home $391,564 (+5.8% in a year), asking rent $1,822 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Chardon
Chardon’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Chardon is in Geauga County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Chardon Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,136 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,513 +6%
- $370,050$391,564 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,313 +32%
- $296,250$391,564 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.
- Chardon$2,055
- 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 Chardon, OH rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio
Chardon is a city of 5,242 people in Geauga County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Geauga County was 1.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Geauga County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chardon is a small city and the seat of Geauga County, in northeastern Ohio. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer households live below the poverty line than is common across the country. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest, with pleasantly warm days. Rain and melted snow fall in good amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Chardon are Chardon Local Schools, Walmart and Mapleview Country Villa. Unemployment across Geauga County has come down from a year earlier, and the county has added a few jobs. Commutes are moderate, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, the Geauga Park District has protected parkland in or beside town, and Holden Arboretum, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. The James A. Garfield National Historic Site, which preserves the home of the twentieth president, is also a short drive. For a longer outing, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are both museums a longer drive away.
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- 2,156households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Geauga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Geauga County had 36,738 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 114 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chardon weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chardon
- Chardon Local SchoolsSchool district522FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Mapleview Country VillaNursing homes142
- Pentair Water FiltrationTanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing135
- Heinen'sGrocery stores125
- Richards Manufacturing Co. SalesSheeting, rubber, manufacturing100
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities83
- EGC EnterprisesSeals, grease or oil, manufacturing82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,194 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chardon’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 Geauga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Chardon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chardon$391,564
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Chardon listings — 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.
- Chardon18.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chardon68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chardon29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Chardon$547,408
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Chardon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chardon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.