East Canton, Ohio.
Typical home $209,571 (+6.0% in a year). Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in East Canton
East Canton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
East Canton is in Stark County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Osnaburg Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$641 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,936 +6%
- $197,635$209,571 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,280 +38%
- $152,291$209,571 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.
- East Canton$1,100
- 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 East Canton, OH rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in East Canton, Stark County, Ohio
East Canton is a village of 1,521 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $57,364 a year and half less, against $67,934 across Stark County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Stark County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. East Canton is a small village in Stark County, home to a modest number of people. Incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Stark County, some of the largest workplaces are Aultman Hospital, Metallus and Canton City Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. The typical commute is fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Several museums are a short drive away, including the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum. The Canton Museum of Art is also close, and Nimishillen Creek is a short drive off for time by the water. For a longer outing, the Akron Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 644households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 157,374 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 47 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Canton Regional Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Stark County
- Aultman Health Foundations6,800
- Cleveland Clinic2,421
- County of Stark2,154
- Freshmark, Inc.1,783
- Metallus (FKA TimkenSteel)1,704
- Canton City Board of Education1,702
- Giant Eagle1,166
- The Timken Company862
From Stark County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Human Resources of Listed Companies”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in East Canton’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 Stark County and the Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
East Canton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- East Canton$209,571
- 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.
- East Canton8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a East Canton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls East Canton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.