Ravenna, Ohio.
Typical home $221,897 (+5.7% in a year), asking rent $1,106 . Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Ravenna
Ravenna’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ravenna is in Portage County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Ravenna City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$653 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,047 +6%
- $209,850$221,897 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,855 +31%
- $169,042$221,897 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.
- Ravenna$1,165
- 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 Ravenna, OH rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio
Ravenna is a city of 11,323 people in Portage County. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% are rented. Unemployment in Portage County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ravenna is a small city and the seat of Portage County, in northeastern Ohio. Its residents are younger than in many American towns, and more of them rent their homes than across much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Ravenna are UH Portage Medical Center, Ravenna City Schools and Parker Hannifin's Parflex Division. Unemployment across Portage County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county's job count has edged up. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are West Branch State Park, a protected area suited to a day outdoors, and Triangle Lake Bog State Nature Preserve, a protected area that is home to a rare bog habitat. Dix Stadium, also a short drive away, is a stadium in Kent. For a longer outing, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and the Akron Art Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 5,035households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Portage County had 56,790 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more 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 84° and lows near 60°. About 45 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ravenna South weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ravenna
- Family & Community ServicesIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose778
- UH Portage Medical CenterGeneral hospital760FTE
- Ravenna City SchoolsSchool district366FTE
- Parker Hannifin Parflex DivisionRubber and plastics hoses mfg.293
- Sirna & Sons Produce (RAV)Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers241
- Sirna and Sons Produce241
- NOVO Health Services - RavennaBed linen supply services239
- Saint-Gobain Performance PlasticsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing132
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,140 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of RavennaRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ravenna’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 Portage County and the Akron, OH metro.
Ravenna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ravenna$221,897
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Ravenna listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 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.
- Ravenna18.58%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ravenna72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ravenna31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Ravenna$212,990
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Ravenna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ravenna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.