Massillon, Ohio.
Typical home $220,113 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $1,085 (+5.1%). Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Massillon
Massillon’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Massillon is in Stark County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 5 school districts: Fairless Local, Jackson Local, Massillon City, Perry Local and Tuslaw Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$653 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,526 +4%
- $212,588$220,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,139 +33%
- $164,974$220,113 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.
- Massillon$1,155
- 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 Massillon, OH rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Massillon, OH rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Massillon runs $542/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $561 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,627 a month against $1,085 rent: a $1,155 mortgage payment, plus $236 property tax and $236 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Massillon
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$1,627
- Renting$1,085
- Mortgage only$1,155
Property tax · $236/mo 1.29% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Stark County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $236/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 Massillon, Stark County, Ohio
Massillon is a city of 32,146 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $56,446 a year and half less, against $67,934 across Stark County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Massillon was 3.7% in August 2026, and Stark County had 0.7% 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. Massillon is a city in Stark County where the typical resident is somewhat older than the typical American. Household incomes run below the county's, and the cost of a home sits within reach for many households. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places. Winters are cold and snowy, with highs a little above freezing in January, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Massillon are Fresh Mark Massillon, a processed meats manufacturer, Shearer's Foods, which makes potato chips, and Walmart. The typical commute is a moderate one, and unemployment in the city has eased over the past year, though Stark County has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Paul Brown Tiger Stadium is in or beside town, and a short drive away you can visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a museum, along with the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum. The First Ladies National Historic Site, also a museum, is a short drive away too, and Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve offers a protected natural area close by.
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- 14,365households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 157,374 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 47 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Canton Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Massillon
- Fresh Mark MassillonProcessed meats manufacturing907
- Shearer's Foods - MILPotato chips manufacturing478
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters453
- Sterilite Corporation OHOMfg of plastic housewares425
- Heartland RPHPsychiatric hospital342FTE
- Shearer's FoodsPotato chips manufacturing334
- Ziegler Tire and Supply CompanyAutomotive tire dealers313
- Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Massillon PlantMetal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing230
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,647 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Massillon’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 Stark County and the Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Massillon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Massillon$220,113
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Massillon listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 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.
- Massillon23.14%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Massillon10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Massillon183
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Massillon82
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Massillon$209,638
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Massillon101.09%
Zip codes with a Massillon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Massillon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Massillon
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44646 | Massillon | 47,741 | $1,120 | $227,598 |
| 44647 | Massillon | 18,117 | $1,048 | $191,339 |