Creston, Ohio.
Typical home $260,054 (+3.0% in a year). Wooster, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Creston
Creston’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Creston is in Wayne County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Norwayne Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,542 +3%
- $252,512$260,054 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,684 +44%
- $180,370$260,054 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.
- Creston$1,365
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Creston, OH rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Creston, Wayne County, Ohio
Creston is a village of 2,139 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $68,500 a year and half less, against $73,574 across Wayne County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Creston is a small village in Wayne County, Ohio, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Schaeffler Transmission, Wooster Community Hospital and The College of Wooster. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and a small number work from home, so most people travel to a job outside the house.
Things to do. A short drive away, Killbuck Creek offers river scenery, and Chippewa Lake Park is an amusement park. The Northern Ohio Railway Museum is also close by for anyone with an interest in trains. For a longer outing, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park a longer drive away.
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- 938households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 48,168 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer 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 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chippewa Lake weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wayne County
- J. M. Smucker2,000
- Schaeffler2,000
- Wooster Community Hospital1,250
- College of Wooster850
- Buehlers Food800
- Artiflex675
- Wayne County627
- Wooster Brush575
From Wayne County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Wayne County Economic Development Council; Bureau of Economic Analysis”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Creston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Wayne County and the Wooster, OH metro.
Creston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Creston$260,054
- 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.
- Creston6
Zip codes with a Creston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Creston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.