Diamond, Ohio.
Typical home $293,289 (+6.5% in a year). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Diamond
Diamond is in Portage County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$910 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,865 +6%
- $275,424$293,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,086 +36%
- $216,203$293,289 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.
- Diamond$1,539
- 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 Diamond, OH rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Diamond, Portage County, Ohio
The Census does not count Diamond on its own, so the figures here are Portage County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,766 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Portage County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Portage County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Diamond is a small town in Portage County, in northeast Ohio. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across the county, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs rose slightly over the last year. A good share of adults hold a degree, and many people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Milton State Park is in or beside town, and West Branch State Park is a short drive away, both protected areas for time outdoors. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, a national park, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a museum, are each a longer drive away.
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- 65,249households
- 39.6median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Portage County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Portage County had 56,790 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 28 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warren South weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Portage County
- Kent State University3,500
- UH Hospitals Portage Medical Center1,400
- Portage County999
- Hattie Larlham501
- East Manufacturing Corporation500
- Step 2 Co LLC500
- Anna Maria of Aurora400
- Kensington Care Center350
From Portage County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Portage Development Board”), 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Portage County, 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 Portage County and the Akron, OH metro.
Diamond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Diamond$293,289
- 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.
- Diamond9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Diamond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Diamond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.