Kipton, Ohio.
Typical home $136,831 (+0.6% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Kipton
Kipton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Kipton is in Lorain County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Firelands Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$324 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $830 +1%
- $136,001$136,831 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,025 +5%
- $129,806$136,831 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.
- Kipton$718
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in Kipton, OH rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kipton, Lorain County, Ohio
Kipton is a village of 209 people in Lorain County. Half its households earn more than $69,107 a year and half less, against $73,347 across Lorain County. Unemployment in Lorain County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lorain County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kipton is a very small village in Lorain County, and everyone here is likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical home is valued at less than many homes across the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. A four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than is typical, and the commute is of moderate length, with only a few people working from home. Across Lorain County, the largest workplaces include Ford Motor Company, Lorain County Community College and Oberlin College, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Closest to home, Tappan Square is a park a short drive away, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum is a museum, also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Cedar Point is an amusement park, and Findley State Park is a protected area where the Black River and other waterways run nearby, each a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lorain County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lorain County had 99,738 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oberlin weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lorain County
- The Cleveland Clinic Foundation2,875
- Lorain County1,904
- University Hospitals1,850
- Ford Motor Company - Avon Lake1,773
- Mercy Health Lorain1,751
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.1,300
- Lorain County Community College1,267
- Oberlin College1,068
From Lorain County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Number of employees obtained from the W2's from our Tax Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kipton’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 Lorain County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Kipton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kipton$136,831
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kipton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kipton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.