Collins, Ohio.
Typical home $237,806 (+5.1% in a year). Norwalk, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Collins
Collins is in Huron County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$693 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,553 +5%
- $226,253$237,806 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,778 +31%
- $181,027$237,806 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.
- Collins$1,248
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Collins, OH rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Collins, Huron County, Ohio
Collins, in Huron County, had 628 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huron County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Collins is a very small community in Huron County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is almost absent here, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. A small share work from home. Across Huron County, some of the largest workplaces are Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Pepperidge Farm and Norwalk City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The Norwalk Theatre is a short drive away. Farther afield, Cedar Point is a well-known amusement park a longer drive away, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum is a museum a longer drive away. The Huron River, also a longer drive away, offers time by the water.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Huron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 21,321 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norwalk Wwtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Huron County
- Fisher-Titus Health1,300
- Stanley Black & Decker900
- Pepperidge Farms750
- LSC Communications500
- New Horizons Baking450
- Wiers Farm400
- Berry Global390
- Autoneum360
From Huron County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Huron County Auditor's Office and Office of Workforce Development”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Collins’ 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 Huron County and the Norwalk, OH metro.
Collins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Collins$237,806
- 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.
Zip codes with a Collins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Collins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.