Copley, Ohio.
Typical home $342,610 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $2,145 . Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Copley
Copley is in Summit County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$958 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,160 +4%
- $330,450$342,610 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,151 +25%
- $274,459$342,610 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.
- Copley$1,798
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Copley, OH rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Copley, Summit County, Ohio
Copley is a township of 18,403 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $115,338 a year and half less, against $71,622 across Summit County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Summit County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Copley is a township in Summit County, Ohio, and its residents are somewhat older than a typical American community. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also employing a good number. Within Copley itself, the largest workplaces include Copley-Fairlawn City Schools, Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital - Akron and Montrose Ford. Unemployment across Summit County has eased from a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. A fair number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Right in or beside town is the Akron Fossils & Science Center, a museum. A short drive away are the Akron Art Museum and the Akron Zoo. A longer drive brings you to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, a large park along the Cuyahoga River.
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- 7,598households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summit County had 259,891 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Fulton International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Copley
- Copley-Fairlawn City SchoolsSchool district587FTE
- Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital - AkronAnimal hospitals257
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities131
- Montrose FordNew car dealers128
- DTJ EnterprisesAddition, alteration and renovation, commercial and institutional building88
- Phoenix Fairlawn Operating CoSkilled nursing facilities85
- Downing EnterprisesDisplays manufacturing70
- JCPenneyRetail63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,016 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Summit 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 Summit County and the Akron, OH metro.
Copley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Copley$342,610
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Copley 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.
- Copley23.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Copley60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Copley23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Copley$349,476
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Copley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Copley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.