Perry, Ohio.
Typical home $298,369 (+2.3% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Perry
Perry’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Perry is in Lake County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Perry Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$823 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,708 +2%
- $291,661$298,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,268 +23%
- $243,102$298,369 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.
- Perry$1,566
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Perry, OH rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perry, Lake County, Ohio
Perry is a village of 1,602 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $93,917 a year and half less, against $80,925 across Lake County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% 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 people in Lake County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perry is a small village in Lake County, Ohio, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the chilliest month, and summers are warm without being extreme, with moisture through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Lake Hospital System, Mentor Exempted Village Schools and Lubrizol Wickliffe. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small part of the workforce works from home.
Things to do. Headlands Beach State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Grand River, and the Finnish Heritage Museum is close by too. For a longer outing, the Cleveland Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and Holden Arboretum is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 612households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Lake County 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- SterisIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services2,520
- Lake Hospital SystemGeneral hospital1,585FTE
- Mentor Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district1,440FTE
- Lubrizol WickliffeOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing1,029
- Willoughby-Eastlake City SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- Lakeland Community CollegeTwo-year college662
- Riverside Local SchoolsSchool district652FTE
- The Lincoln Electric Company - MentorWelding wire or rods manufacturing515
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 236 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,486 people in all across the county; Perry has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perry’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.
Perry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perry$298,369
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Perry listings — 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.
- Perry26.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perry22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perry8
Zip codes with a Perry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.