Grand Rapids, Ohio.
Typical home $257,901 (+4.6% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Grand Rapids is in Wood County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Otsego Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$730 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,289 +5%
- $246,612$257,901 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,198 +27%
- $202,703$257,901 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.
- Grand Rapids$1,354
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Grand Rapids, OH rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grand Rapids, Wood County, Ohio
Grand Rapids is a village of 925 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $76,250 a year and half less, against $74,216 across Wood County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grand Rapids is a small village in Wood County, Ohio, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing local people. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, First Solar's Perrysburg plants and Bowling Green State University. The commute is fairly long, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Mary Jane Thurston State Park and Providence Metropark are both in or beside town, offering protected land and park space close to home. Maumee State Forest is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Toledo Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and the Maumee River is also a longer drive from town.
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- 334households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 74,868 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Napoleon weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wood County
- Amazon4,000
- Bowling Green State University2,511
- First Solar2,500
- FedEx Ground2,000
- Magna International2,000
- Owens Community College1,104
- Wood Co Hospital960
- Wood County884
From Wood County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Wood County Economic Development Commission Ohio Labor Market Informer”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grand Rapids’ 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 Wood County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Grand Rapids home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grand Rapids$257,901
- 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.
- Grand Rapids6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Grand Rapids address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grand Rapids — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.