Eastlake, Ohio.
Typical home $209,007 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,206 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Eastlake
Eastlake’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Eastlake is in Lake County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Kirtland Local and Willoughby-Eastlake City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$608 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,803 +2%
- $204,204$209,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,780 +30%
- $160,227$209,007 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.
- Eastlake$1,097
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Eastlake, OH rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eastlake, Lake County, Ohio
Eastlake is a city of 17,670 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $62,072 a year and half less, against $80,925 across Lake County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 1.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eastlake is a city in Lake County, Ohio, with a population that skews older. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a Cleveland-area suburb, and poverty is not widespread.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools, Walmart and Best Supply are among the largest workplaces in Eastlake. Unemployment across Lake County is well below where it stood a year earlier, and the county has added jobs. A fair share of people work from home, and most of the rest have a commute of a moderate length.
Things to do. The Chagrin River runs in or beside town, and the James A. Garfield National Historic Site and Euclid Beach Park, a former amusement park site, are a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Cleveland's museums, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and to Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 8,316households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 99,690 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kirtland-holden weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eastlake
- Willoughby-Eastlake City SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Best SupplyArchitectural metalwork merchant wholesalers235
- Consolidated Precision ProductsSteel investment foundries214
- Stakes MFGPrint shops, digital197
- Conn SelmerMusical instruments manufacturing166
- Buckeye ReliefGeneral combination crop farming149
- JBT MarelBottling machinery manufacturing132
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,861 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eastlake’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 Lake County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Eastlake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eastlake$209,007
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Eastlake listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Eastlake24.97%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eastlake65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eastlake26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Eastlake$200,639
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Eastlake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eastlake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.