Polk, Ohio.
Typical home $275,266 (+3.6% in a year). Ashland, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Polk
Polk’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Polk is in Ashland County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Mapleton Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$870 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,617 +4%
- $265,649$275,266 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,995 +37%
- $200,272$275,266 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.
- Polk$1,445
- 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 Polk, OH rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Polk, Ashland County, Ohio
Polk is a village of 310 people in Ashland County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Ashland County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashland County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Polk is a very small village in Ashland County, Ohio, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are worth more than the typical home in many places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, peaking in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with professional and business services close behind. Very few people work from home. Across Ashland County, Ashland University, Ashland City Schools and UH Samaritan Medical Center are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Mohican State Park is a protected area along the Clear Fork Mohican River, a longer drive away, and suits anyone who likes woods and water. Malabar Farm State Park, also a longer drive away, is another protected area for a quiet day out. For something indoors, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum, a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Ashland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashland County had 18,625 jobs in 2025, 1.5% 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°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashland County
- Ashland UniversityUniversity or college979
- Ashland City SchoolsSchool district596FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters423
- Brethren Care Management ServicesContinuing care retirement communities378
- UH Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital378FTE
- Nelson Tree ServiceArborist services345
- Mapleton Local SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- PentairCentrifugal pumps manufacturing259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 59 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,840 people in all across the county; Polk has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Polk’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Ashland County and the Ashland, OH metro.
Polk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Polk$275,266
- 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.
Zip codes with a Polk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Polk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.