Huron, Ohio.
Typical home $311,537 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $1,650 . Sandusky, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Huron
Huron’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Huron is in Erie County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Huron City Schools school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$924 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,539 +5%
- $297,999$311,537 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,458 +33%
- $235,079$311,537 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.
- Huron$1,635
- 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 Huron, OH rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huron, Erie County, Ohio
Huron is a city of 6,922 people in Erie County. Half its households earn more than $78,333 a year and half less, against $71,993 across Erie County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Erie County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huron is a small city in Erie County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Huron are Ardagh Metal Packaging, which makes aluminum cans, Huron City Schools, and Foundation Health Solutions, a skilled nursing provider. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. Cedar Point, one of the best known amusement parks in the country, is a short drive away, along with roller coasters such as Millennium Force and Steel Vengeance. The Huron River runs in or beside town, and for a quieter outing the Allen Memorial Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 3,178households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Erie County had 36,374 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huron
- Ardagh Metal Packaging - HuronAluminum can manufacturing328
- Huron City SchoolsSchool district254FTE
- Foundation Health SolutionsSkilled nursing facilities126
- Huron Retail StoreRetail69
- OneWater MarineBoat dealers, new and used58
- Wilkes Plumbing and HeatingPlumbing and heating contractors58
- Parts Authority - OH - 34 - HuronAutomobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except tires52
- HuronMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 714 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of HuronRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of HuronRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HuronRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Huron’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 Erie County and the Sandusky, OH metro.
Huron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huron$311,537
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Huron listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 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.
- Huron24.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Huron18
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huron71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huron24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Huron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.