Cortland, Ohio.
Typical home $235,821 (+5.6% in a year). Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Property tax and schools in Cortland
Cortland’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Cortland is in Trumbull County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Lakeview Local, Maplewood Local and Mathews Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$715 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,574 +6%
- $223,247$235,821 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,441 +37%
- $172,380$235,821 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.
- Cortland$1,238
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Cortland, OH rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cortland, Trumbull County, Ohio
Cortland is a city of 7,105 people in Trumbull County. Half its households earn more than $71,563 a year and half less, against $56,435 across Trumbull County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Trumbull County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cortland is a small city in Trumbull County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and household incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than a typical household might expect to find in a place of this size, and a four-year degree is held by a good number of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Cortland are Lakeview Local Schools, Ohio Living - Lake Vista and Control Transformer. Unemployment across Trumbull County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Mosquito Lake State Park lies in or beside town, and Mosquito Creek Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Butler Institute of American Art is a museum a longer drive away, and Pymatuning State Park is a protected area also a longer drive away.
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- 3,142households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trumbull County had 65,092 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 40 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mosquito Creek Lake weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cortland
- Lakeview Local SchoolsSchool district215FTE
- Ohio Living - Lake VistaAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities104
- Control TransformerLighting transformers, street and airport, manufacturing59
- Sunburst Environmental ServicesGarbage collection services39
- CortlandMail and parcel delivery27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cortland’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 Trumbull County and the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Cortland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cortland$235,821
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cortland listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Cortland25.47%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cortland48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cortland21
Zip codes with a Cortland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cortland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.