Dorset, Ohio.
Typical home $185,936 (+10.4% in a year). Ashtabula, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Dorset
Dorset is in Ashtabula County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,453 +10%
- $168,483$185,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,851 +43%
- $130,085$185,936 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.
- Dorset$976
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Dorset, OH rose 10.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dorset, Ashtabula County, Ohio
Dorset is a township of 807 people in Ashtabula County. Unemployment in Ashtabula County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashtabula 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dorset is a small rural township in the northeast corner of Ohio, in Ashtabula County, with a population small enough that most people likely know their neighbors. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Across Ashtabula County, the largest workplaces include Ashtabula County Medical Center, Cabinetworks Group Orwell Plant and Ashtabula Area City Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Pymatuning State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a good choice for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Conneaut Lake Park, an amusement park, and to Geneva State Park, another protected area. Rivers, creeks and reservoirs in the surrounding countryside offer quiet places to be near the water.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Ashtabula County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashtabula County had 29,106 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 90 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dorset weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Ashtabula County
- Ashtabula County Medical Center/ Glenbeigh Hospital1,299
- Ashtabula County Government812
- University Hospitals Conneaut/Geneva571
- Zehrco-Giancola Composites, Inc.540
- Cabinet Works530
- Ineos (Cristal)449
- Honeywell442
- Molded Fiber Glass417
From Ashtabula County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Growth Partnership for Ashtabula County; Ohio Department of Job & Family Services”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 across Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula County and the Ashtabula, OH metro.
Dorset home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dorset$185,936
- 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 Dorset address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dorset — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.