Norwalk, Ohio.
Typical home $214,844 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $1,448 . Norwalk, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Norwalk
Norwalk’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Norwalk is in Huron County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 4 school districts: Edison Local (formerly Berlin-Milan), Monroeville Local, Norwalk City and Western Reserve Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$607 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,985 +6%
- $202,858$214,844 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,881 +30%
- $164,962$214,844 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.
- Norwalk$1,128
- 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 Norwalk, OH rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio
Norwalk is a city of 17,068 people in Huron County. Half its households earn more than $60,844 a year and half less, against $67,878 across Huron County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 3.5% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norwalk is a small city in Huron County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. People in Norwalk work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. The largest workplaces in town include Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk City Schools and Borgers Ohio. Most people get to work in a short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Norwalk Theatre is a local place to catch a show. A longer drive away are Cedar Point, an amusement park and one of the best known in the country, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The Huron River, also a longer drive away, is there for time by the water.
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- 7,434households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 21,321 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norwalk Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norwalk
- Fisher-titus Medical CenterGeneral hospital936FTE
- Norwalk City SchoolsSchool district422FTE
- Borgers OhioAutomobile trimmings, textile, manufacturing252
- New Horizons Bakery NorwalkCommercial bakeries230
- Norwalk Custom Order FurnitureUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing205
- Oglesby Construction - OhioPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction144
- Norwalk Concrete IndustriesArchitectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing118
- Twilight HealthcareNursing homes93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,620 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norwalk’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 Huron County and the Norwalk, OH metro.
Norwalk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norwalk$214,844
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Norwalk listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 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.
- Norwalk17.58%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Norwalk7
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Norwalk51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Norwalk23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Norwalk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norwalk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.