Orwell, Ohio.
Typical home $235,901 (+6.9% in a year). Ashtabula, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Orwell
Orwell’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Orwell is in Ashtabula County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Grand Valley Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$748 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,290 +7%
- $220,611$235,901 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,211 +41%
- $167,691$235,901 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.
- Orwell$1,238
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Orwell, OH rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio
Orwell is a village of 1,533 people in Ashtabula County. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Ashtabula County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orwell is a small village in Ashtabula County, in the northeast corner of Ohio. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect in a place this size, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January highs near freezing, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Orwell itself has several factory employers, among them the Cabinetworks Group Orwell Plant, which makes kitchen cabinets, and Kennametal, which makes cutting tools. Grand Valley Local Schools is also among the largest workplaces in the village. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Swine Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, Pymatuning State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Holden Arboretum is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away. The Ashtabula River, likewise a longer drive from the village, is another place to spend time near the water.
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- 751households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashtabula County had 29,106 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 90 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dorset weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orwell
- Cabinetworks Group Orwell PlantKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing520
- KennametalCutting tool and machine tool accessory manufacturing244
- Grand Valley Local SchoolsSchool district185FTE
- QuanexRails, rough wood, manufacturing116
- Everlast Roofing Inc. - OrwellSheet metal work manufacturing52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 932 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Orwell’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 Ashtabula County and the Ashtabula, OH metro.
Orwell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orwell$235,901
- 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.
- Orwell4
Zip codes with a Orwell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orwell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.