North Canton, Ohio.
Typical home $290,691 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,503 (+6.2%). Canton-Massillon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in North Canton
North Canton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
North Canton is in Stark County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Jackson Local, North Canton City and Plain Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,536 +3%
- $281,155$290,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,918 +31%
- $221,774$290,691 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.
- North Canton$1,526
- 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 North Canton, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in North Canton, OH rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in North Canton runs $646/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $657 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,149 a month against $1,503 rent: a $1,526 mortgage payment, plus $312 property tax and $311 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — North Canton
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$2,149
- Renting$1,503
- Mortgage only$1,526
Property tax · $312/mo 1.29% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Stark County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $311/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 North Canton, Stark County, Ohio
North Canton is a city of 17,842 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $72,544 a year and half less, against $67,934 across Stark County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% 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 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. North Canton is a small city in Stark County where residents tend to be older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect, while a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being extreme, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a lot of people. The largest workplaces in North Canton include North Canton City Schools, Walsh University and Aultman Health Foundation. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Across Stark County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly.
Things to do. The Pro Football Hall of Fame, a museum, is a short drive away, as is the First Ladies National Historic Site, another museum. For time outdoors, Quail Hollow State Park is also a short drive, and Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away.
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- 8,499households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 19%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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in North Canton
- North Canton City Schools
- Diebold Nixdorf Inv.
- Walsh University
- City Of North Canton
- Childrens Hospital Medical Center
- The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Aultman North Canton Medical
- St Luke Lutheran Home For The
From the City of North Canton’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Income Tax Department and the Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA)”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order, by the city income tax they withheld.
Natural hazards
- Hailrelatively high in parts of North CantonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Canton’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.
North Canton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Canton$290,691
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 North Canton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- North Canton30.36%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- North Canton16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- North Canton118
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Canton51
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- North Canton$276,817
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- North Canton100.00%
Zip codes with a North Canton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Canton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.