Northwood, Ohio.
Typical home $183,349 (+1.7% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Northwood
Northwood’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Northwood is in Wood County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Lake Local, Northwood Local Schools and Rossford Exempted Village. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$394 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,142 +2%
- $180,206$183,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,756 +5%
- $174,592$183,349 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.
- Northwood$962
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 71 years.
Typical home values in Northwood, OH rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northwood, Wood County, Ohio
Northwood is a city of 5,160 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $77,268 a year and half less, against $74,216 across Wood County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northwood is a small city in Wood County, Ohio, close to Toledo and the Maumee River. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Northwood are Magna, which makes automotive bumpers, Adient, which makes motor vehicle seats, and Northwood Local Schools. Most people have a typical commute, and relatively few work from home. Across Wood County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Toledo Museum of Art, a museum, and the Toledo Zoo are among the best known places in the area. The Maumee River, also a short drive away, offers a stretch of water for walking along or fishing near. Maumee Bay State Park, a protected area a short drive off, is a good choice for time outdoors.
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- 2,240households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 74,868 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Metcalf Field weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Northwood
- Norplas Industries1,016
- Adient/Johnson Controls692
- Buckeye Cablevision Inc.457
- North American Science Association327
- Fedex Freight, Inc.294
- Buckeye Telesystem Inc.236
- Fedex Express Corp.183
- Pilkington North America Inc.148
From the City of Northwood’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City Income Tax Department”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northwood’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Wood County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Northwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northwood$183,349
- 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.
- Northwood17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northwood7
Zip codes with a Northwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.