Geneva, Ohio.
Typical home $211,498 (+5.3% in a year). Ashtabula, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Geneva
Geneva’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Geneva is in Ashtabula County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Geneva Area City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$649 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,732 +5%
- $200,765$211,498 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,660 +35%
- $156,838$211,498 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.
- Geneva$1,110
- 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 Geneva, OH rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio
Geneva is a city of 5,924 people in Ashtabula County. Half its households earn more than $53,557 a year and half less, against $57,728 across Ashtabula County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Geneva is a small city in Ashtabula County, in northeastern Ohio. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls through the year, so shoveling and raking both belong to the seasons here.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Geneva are Geneva Area City Schools, UH Geneva Medical Center and the Honeywell plant. Commutes are on the longer side for a small city, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Geneva State Park is a protected area a short drive away. For a longer outing, Headlands Beach State Park is another protected area, and the James A. Garfield National Historic Site is a protected area tied to a president's home. The Ashtabula River is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,656households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents 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 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashtabula County Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Geneva
- Geneva Area City SchoolsSchool district263FTE
- Honeywell - GenevaFittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing235
- UH Geneva Medical CenterCritical access hospital225FTE
- Bruce's Fine FoodsGrocery stores97
- Premix-Hadlock Composites - GenevaBathroom and toilet accessories, plastics, manufacturing84
- Provider ServicesSkilled nursing facilities77
- Arthur Louis Steel CoFabricated structural metal manufacturing62
- Hub PlasticsBottles, plastics, manufacturing61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 989 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Geneva’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 Ashtabula County and the Ashtabula, OH metro.
Geneva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Geneva$211,498
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Geneva listings — 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.
- Geneva22.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Geneva39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Geneva16
Zip codes with a Geneva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Geneva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.