Mansfield, Ohio.
Typical home $152,993 (+4.9% in a year), asking rent $852 (+5.7%). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Mansfield
Mansfield’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Mansfield is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 5 school districts: Crestview Local, Lexington Local, Madison Local, Mansfield City and Ontario Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,088 +5%
- $145,905$152,993 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,202 +42%
- $107,791$152,993 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.
- Mansfield$803
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Mansfield, OH rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Mansfield, OH rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mansfield runs $275/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $284 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,126 a month against $852 rent: a $803 mortgage payment, plus $159 property tax and $164 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mansfield
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,126
- Renting$852
- Mortgage only$803
Property tax · $159/mo 1.25% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Richland County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $164/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio
Mansfield is a city of 47,534 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $44,540 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Mansfield was 4.5% in August 2026, and Richland County had 0.9% 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. Mansfield is a city in Richland County, in north-central Ohio. Household incomes here are below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, while the typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Homes are about as often rented as owned, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Mansfield are Medcentral Health System, Mansfield City Schools and The Gorman-Rupp Company, which makes pumps. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and the typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum and Kingwood Center is a botanical garden. A short drive away, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a race track, and Charles Mill Lake is a reservoir for time on the water. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall at a steady, moderate rate through the year.
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- 19,516households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield Lahm Municipal Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Mansfield
- Ohio Health MedCentral Health Systems2,500
- Newman Technology625
- Adena Corporation525
- Gorman Rupp Company525
- Mansfield Correctional Institution520
- Techniplas500
- Jay Industries, Incorporated400
- School Specialty, Inc.400
From the City of Mansfield’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City of Mansfield, Ohio, Department of Economic Development”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mansfield’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Mansfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mansfield$152,993
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mansfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 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.
- Mansfield23.76%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mansfield11
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mansfield219
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mansfield90
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mansfield$156,011
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Mansfield97.47%
Zip codes with a Mansfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mansfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mansfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44903 | Mansfield | 25,642 | $982 | $210,978 |
| 44906 | Mansfield | 17,343 | — | $172,785 |
| 44907 | Mansfield | 16,349 | $819 | $177,273 |
| 44905 | Mansfield | 16,245 | — | $155,218 |
| 44902 | Mansfield | 4,636 | — | $72,465 |