Parma, Ohio.
Typical home $215,078 (+3.9% in a year), asking rent $1,263 (+8.6%). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Parma
Parma’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Parma is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Parma City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$653 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,092 +4%
- $206,985$215,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,024 +36%
- $158,053$215,078 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.
- Parma$1,129
- 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 Parma, OH rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Parma, OH rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Parma runs $455/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $467 in May 2024.
That is $1,718 a month against $1,263 rent: a $1,129 mortgage payment, plus $359 property tax and $230 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Parma
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,718
- Renting$1,263
- Mortgage only$1,129
Property tax · $359/mo 2.00% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cuyahoga County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $230/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Parma, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Parma is a city of 81,146 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $69,295 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Parma was 1.7% in August 2026, and Cuyahoga County had 1.8% 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. Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, and its household incomes run above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live here are somewhat older than the typical American. Winters are cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more of Parma's residents than any other field, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Parma are Parma City Schools, UH Parma Medical Center and General Motors. Unemployment is low and has fallen over the past year, though across Cuyahoga County there are fewer jobs than there were a year earlier.
Things to do. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a museum, and the Cuyahoga River are both a short drive away, as is Huntington Bank Field, a stadium. A longer drive brings you to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, a good place for a day outdoors.
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- 34,287households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cuyahoga County had 692,694 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 64 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Parma
- Parma City SchoolsSchool district2,019FTE
- UH Parma Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,000FTE
- General MotorsMetal motor vehicle body parts stamping900
- Legacy Health ServicesNursing homes587
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters419
- Ricoh USAOffice equipment297
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs270
- Pleasant Lake VillaNursing homes242
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,367 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ParmaRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parma’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 Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Parma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parma$215,078
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Parma listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Parma28.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Parma8
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parma233
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parma115
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Parma$215,219
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Parma101.59%
Zip codes with a Parma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Parma
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44134 | Cleveland | 37,774 | $1,714 | $209,316 |
| 44129 | Cleveland | 28,800 | $1,115 | $209,888 |