Garrettsville, Ohio.
Typical home $287,946 (+6.6% in a year). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Garrettsville
Garrettsville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Garrettsville is in Portage County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: James A Garfield Local and Windham Exempted Village. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$870 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,842 +7%
- $270,104$287,946 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,869 +33%
- $216,077$287,946 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.
- Garrettsville$1,511
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Garrettsville, OH rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garrettsville, Portage County, Ohio
Garrettsville is a village of 2,449 people in Portage County. Half its households earn more than $66,404 a year and half less, against $75,766 across Portage County. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garrettsville is a small village in Portage County, Ohio, with a quiet, close-knit feel. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle range for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, July being the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many people. Across Portage County, some of the largest workplaces are Kent State University, UH Hospitals Portage Medical Center and Hattie Larlham. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places, and the typical commute is a fairly ordinary one, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Nelson Kennedy Ledges State Park and West Branch State Park are both a short drive away, offering protected woods and open water close to home. Farther afield, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away and makes a good day out. Art lovers can head to the Akron Art Museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,222households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents 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 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 63 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hiram weather station, 4 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garrettsville’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 Portage County and the Akron, OH metro.
Garrettsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garrettsville$287,946
- 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.
- Garrettsville14
Zip codes with a Garrettsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garrettsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.