Akron, Ohio.
Typical home $138,865 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,176 (+2.8%). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Akron
Akron’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Akron is in Summit County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 6 school districts: Akron City, Copley-Fairlawn City, Coventry Local, Revere Local, Springfield Local and Woodridge Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,697 +2%
- $136,167$138,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,360 +29%
- $107,504$138,865 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.
- Akron$729
- 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 Akron, OH rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Akron, OH rose 2.8% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Akron runs $121/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $272 in Nov 2021.
That is $1,055 a month against $1,176 rent: a $729 mortgage payment, plus $177 property tax and $149 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Akron
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$1,055
- Renting$1,176
- Mortgage only$729
Property tax · $177/mo 1.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Summit County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $149/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 Akron, Summit County, Ohio
Akron is a city of 190,469 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $48,076 a year and half less, against $71,622 across Summit County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Akron was 4.4% in August 2026, and Summit County had 0.4% 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. Akron is a city in Summit County, long known as a manufacturing town and still shaped by that history. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than in many places, while typical home values and rents are modest. About as many homes are rented as are lived in by their owners, and the population is somewhat younger than in many American towns.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Akron are Akron City Schools, FirstEnergy Service Company and the University of Akron Main Campus. Jobs across the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment in the city has eased compared with a year earlier. Commutes are fairly short, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Akron Art Museum and the Akron Zoo are good places for a quiet afternoon, and the Akron Civic Theatre is a place to see a show. A longer drive away is Cuyahoga Valley National Park, a national park for walking and time outdoors. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, so spring and autumn can suit outings.
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- 84,734households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summit County had 259,891 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Fulton International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Akron
- Summa Health System8,111
- Akron Children's Hospital6,346
- Amazon.Com Services LLC6,191
- University of Akron4,856
- Akron Public Schools4,834
- Akron General Medical Center4,427
- Summit County/Government3,421
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber2,883
From the City of Akron’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City of Akron, Ohio Finance Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Hailrelatively high in parts of AkronRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Akron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Summit County and the Akron, OH metro.
Akron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Akron$138,865
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Akron listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 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.
- Akron27.53%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Akron14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Akron951
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Akron332
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Akron$129,219
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Akron98.83%
Zip codes with a Akron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Akron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Akron
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44313 | Akron | 26,631 | $1,332 | $261,003 |
| 44310 | Akron | 25,496 | $1,152 | $116,266 |
| 44319 | Akron | 21,538 | $1,506 | $246,536 |
| 44305 | Akron | 21,103 | $1,204 | $121,031 |
| 44306 | Akron | 20,905 | $1,083 | $85,814 |
| 44314 | Akron | 17,885 | $1,164 | $104,046 |
| 44320 | Akron | 17,690 | $1,157 | $106,445 |
| 44301 | Akron | 13,668 | $1,187 | $123,479 |
| 44311 | Akron | 7,547 | $995 | $75,169 |
| 44303 | Akron | 7,323 | $1,098 | $252,299 |
| 44307 | Akron | 6,653 | $1,250 | $76,529 |
| 44302 | Akron | 5,474 | $1,112 | $133,980 |
| 44304 | Akron | 4,000 | $892 | $92,397 |