Ontario, Ohio.
Typical home $239,544 (+3.7% in a year). Mansfield, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ontario
Ontario’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ontario is in Richland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Ontario Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,458 +4%
- $231,087$239,544 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,225 +39%
- $172,319$239,544 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.
- Ontario$1,257
- 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 Ontario, OH rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ontario, Richland County, Ohio
Ontario is a city of 6,656 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $68,539 a year and half less, against $59,509 across Richland County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ontario is a small Ohio city in Richland County, home to a modest number of people. Households here earn more than the typical household across the county, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Ontario are Walmart, Avita Ontario Hospital and Ontario Local Schools. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and very few work from home. Across Richland County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Black Fork Mohican River runs in or beside town. A short drive away, Kingwood Center is a botanical garden, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum, and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a race track. Clear Fork Reservoir, also a short drive away, offers time by the water.
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- 2,732households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 48,532 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield West weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ontario
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
- Avita Ontario HospitalGeneral hospital359FTE
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing314
- Ontario Local SchoolsSchool district301FTE
- MeijerRetail223
- Interstate Optical CompanyLens grinding, ophthalmic183
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters154
- Menards"home centers"151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,412 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ontario’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 Richland County and the Mansfield, OH metro.
Ontario home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ontario$239,544
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ontario listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Ontario28.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ontario30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ontario8
Zip codes with a Ontario address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ontario — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.