Highland Heights, Ohio.
Typical home $431,323 (+3.3% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Highland Heights
Highland Heights’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Highland Heights is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,221 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,606 +3%
- $417,717$431,323 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,227 +30%
- $331,096$431,323 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.
- Highland Heights$2,264
- 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 Highland Heights, OH rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Highland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Highland Heights is a city of 8,719 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $122,863 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Highland Heights is a small city in Cuyahoga County where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Residents are older than in most places, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few people living in poverty. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow adding up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, or manufacturing. Within the city itself, UPS, Swagelok Highland/Falon and Norman Noble are among the largest workplaces, and the work they do ranges from package delivery to making industrial valves and surgical clamps. Most adults hold a four-year degree, a good number work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, both easy trips for an afternoon. Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park, is also a short drive away. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive, and suits a full day outdoors.
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- 3,566households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 18%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 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Highland Heights
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services522
- Swagelok Highland/FalonValves, industrial-type, manufacturing478
- Norman NobleClamps, surgical, manufacturing322
- Norman NobleClamps, surgical, manufacturing160
- CotsworksAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing117
- Lake Business ProductsAccounting machines merchant wholesalers82
- Philips Healthcare ClevelandDiagnostic equipment, electromedical, manufacturing80
- Gooch and Housego (Ohio)Wreaths, artificial, manufacturing72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,380 people in all. 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 high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Highland Heights’ 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 Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Highland Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Highland Heights$431,323
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Highland Heights 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.
- Highland Heights32.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Highland Heights32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Highland Heights12
Zip codes with a Highland Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Highland Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.