Northfield, Ohio.
Typical home $301,163 (+2.7% in a year). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Northfield
Northfield’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Northfield is in Summit County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Nordonia Hills City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$851 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,962 +3%
- $293,201$301,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,812 +25%
- $241,352$301,163 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.
- Northfield$1,581
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Northfield, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northfield, Summit County, Ohio
Northfield is a village of 3,541 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $70,917 a year and half less, against $71,622 across Summit County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Summit County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are close to the county's, though a little below it, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Summit County, the largest workplaces include Summa Health System, Akron City Schools and Amazon. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park a short drive away, and Brandywine Creek, a stream, is also close by. For a day out, the Akron Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art are both museums a longer drive away, as is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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- 1,557households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17%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 35° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 68°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland Burke Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Summit County
- Amazon.com, Inc.9,226
- Summa Health6,509
- Akron Children's Hospital5,595
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General4,426
- Akron Public Schools3,655
- Summit County3,138
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.2,747
- University of Akron2,696
From Summit County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce and other publicly available information”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Northfield’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.
Northfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northfield$301,163
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Northfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 6 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.
- Northfield23.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Northfield6
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northfield62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northfield31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Northfield$256,902
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Northfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.