East Cleveland, Ohio.
Typical home $66,679 (-4.2% in a year), asking rent $898 (+4.0%). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in East Cleveland
East Cleveland’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
East Cleveland is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the East Cleveland City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$183 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,929 -4%
- $69,608$66,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,694 +6%
- $62,986$66,679 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 Cleveland$350
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 61 years.
Typical home values in East Cleveland, OH fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in East Cleveland, OH rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in East Cleveland runs $365/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $393 in Jan 2026.
That is $533 a month against $898 rent: a $350 mortgage payment, plus $111 property tax and $71 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — East Cleveland
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$533
- Renting$898
- Mortgage only$350
Property tax · $111/mo 2.00% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cuyahoga County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $71/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
East Cleveland is a city of 13,792 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $22,116 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 41% of its people live below the poverty line. 37% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 63% are rented. Unemployment in Cuyahoga County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 Cleveland is a small city on the east side of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County. Its residents are somewhat older than in many towns, and most households rent rather than own their homes. Incomes are well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes and rents here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in East Cleveland are the East Cleveland City School District, GE Lighting a Savant Company, and Certus Healthcare. Across Cuyahoga County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Most people have a commute of a moderate length, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History are both in or beside town, and the Cleveland Cultural Gardens offer a park setting just as close. A short drive away is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the best known museums in the region. For a longer outing, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away.
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- 6,861households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 41%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cuyahoga County had 692,694 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 68°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland Burke Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in East Cleveland
- East Cleveland City School DistrictSchool district341FTE
- GE Lighting a Savant CompanyLow voltage lighting equipment, residential, electric, manufacturing122
- Certus HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care110
- The Cleveland Clinic FoundationHealthcare105
- Apex AcademySchool district82FTE
- RallysFullservice restaurant61
- Electrolizing Corporation of OhioAnodizing metals and metal products for the trade30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428 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
- 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 Cleveland’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 Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
East Cleveland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- East Cleveland$66,679
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 East Cleveland listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- East Cleveland23.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- East Cleveland54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- East Cleveland15
Zip codes with a East Cleveland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls East Cleveland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.