Minerva, Ohio.
Typical home $193,573 (+5.7% in a year). Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Minerva
Minerva’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Minerva is in Stark County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Minerva Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$560 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,493 +6%
- $183,080$193,573 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,961 +30%
- $148,612$193,573 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.
- Minerva$1,016
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Minerva, OH rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minerva, Stark County, Ohio
Minerva is a village of 3,684 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $54,380 a year and half less, against $67,934 across Stark County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Stark County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minerva is a small village in Stark County, Ohio, with a population on the smaller side for the county. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than a comfortable margin would suggest. More homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying just above freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In Minerva itself, the largest workplaces include Minerva Local Schools and Imperial Aluminum, a ferroalloys manufacturer, along with Greif Minerva, which makes cores and fiber products from purchased paperboard. Commutes are fairly short, and almost no one works from home. Across Stark County, unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Still Fork, a river, runs in or beside town. A longer drive away, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is one of the best known museums in the region, and the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum is another. Guilford Lake State Park, also a longer drive away, offers a park setting for time outdoors.
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- 1,564households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 0%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 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millport Northeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Minerva
- Minerva Local SchoolsSchool district278FTE
- Imperial AluminumFerroalloys manufacturing87
- Greif MinervaCores, fiber, made from purchased paperboard49
- MinervaMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 158 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minerva’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 Stark County and the Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Minerva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minerva$193,573
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Minerva17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Minerva7
Zip codes with a Minerva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minerva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.