Painesville, Ohio.
Typical home $229,603 (+3.2% in a year), asking rent $1,590 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Painesville
Painesville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Painesville is in Lake County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Painesville City Local and Riverside Local. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$664 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,206 +3%
- $222,397$229,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,647 +30%
- $175,956$229,603 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.
- Painesville$1,205
- 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 Painesville, OH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio
Painesville is a city of 20,312 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $51,516 a year and half less, against $80,925 across Lake County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 1.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Painesville is a city and the seat of Lake County, Ohio, with a younger population than many towns its size. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Renters and owners make up close to equal parts of the city, and few adults hold a four-year degree. 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 manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The biggest workplaces in Painesville include Riverside Local Schools, Avery Dennison and Lake Erie College. Across Lake County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago and jobs have grown slightly. The typical commute is a short one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Grand River runs in or beside town, and Big Creek does too. A short drive away are Headlands Beach State Park, a protected shoreline area, and the James A. Garfield National Historic Site. Holden Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away, and the museums of Cleveland, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are a longer drive.
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- 8,348households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 99,690 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Painesville Northwest weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Painesville
- Riverside Local SchoolsSchool district652FTE
- Painesville City Local SchoolsSchool district446FTE
- Avery DennisonAdhesive tape made from purchased materials431
- Lake Erie CollegeUniversity or college257
- Aero Fluid ProductsAerospace manufacturing153
- CintasIndustrial launderers131
- Mar-BalAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing126
- Avery Dennison - Reflective and Digital Ink SolutionsPaper bags, coated, made from purchased paper81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,396 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Painesville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lake County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Painesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Painesville$229,603
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Painesville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 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.
- Painesville24.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Painesville13
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Painesville114
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Painesville51
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Painesville$221,593
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Painesville100.44%
Zip codes with a Painesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Painesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Painesville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44077 | Painesville | 57,325 | $1,584 | $260,332 |
| 44045 | Grand River | 611 | — | $220,613 |