Nova, Ohio.
Typical home $292,495 (+5.3% in a year). Ashland, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Nova
Nova is in Ashland County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,682 +5%
- $277,813$292,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,714 +36%
- $214,781$292,495 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.
- Nova$1,535
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Nova, OH rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nova, Ashland County, Ohio
The Census does not count Nova on its own, so the figures here are Ashland County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,860 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Ashland County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashland County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nova is a community in Ashland County, in north-central Ohio. Across Ashland County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in middle age. The area's winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and its summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, retail, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Ashland County has eased in recent times, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did before. Fewer adults hold a college degree than the national average, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Findley State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Ohio State Reformatory, a museum, and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track, are both a longer drive away.
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- 20,720households
- 41.2median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Ashland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashland County had 18,625 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland Southwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashland County
- Ashland UniversityUniversity or college979
- Ashland City SchoolsSchool district596FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters423
- Brethren Care Management ServicesContinuing care retirement communities378
- UH Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital378FTE
- Nelson Tree ServiceArborist services345
- Mapleton Local SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- PentairCentrifugal pumps manufacturing259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 59 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,840 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ashland County, 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 Ashland County and the Ashland, OH metro.
Nova home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nova$292,495
- 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.
Zip codes with a Nova address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nova — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.