Richmond Heights, Ohio.
Typical home $242,809 (+2.3% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Richmond Heights
Richmond Heights’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Richmond Heights is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$700 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,361 +2%
- $237,447$242,809 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,764 +26%
- $193,045$242,809 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.
- Richmond Heights$1,274
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Richmond Heights, OH rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richmond Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Richmond Heights is a city of 10,801 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $60,833 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Cuyahoga County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richmond Heights is a small city in Cuyahoga County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home is worth less than many people expect from the Cleveland area. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a lot of people. Within the city, Richmond Heights Local Schools is among the larger workplaces, along with a nursing care facility and the hardware company E&H Hardware Group. Commutes are fairly long, and more people work from home than you might guess. Across the county, jobs fell slightly last year, though unemployment is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive takes you to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, both well known museums. Also a short drive away are the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a string of parks honoring the city's many communities. For a longer outing, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away and offers woods, trails and river scenery.
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- 4,910households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 17%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 35° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 68°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland Burke Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richmond Heights
- Flexjet- Remote Flight Crew and AOGNonscheduled air passenger transportation1,809
- Ohnh EMPNursing care facilities137
- Richmond Heights Local SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- Richmond HeightsAssisted living115
- Richmond HeightsMail and parcel delivery60
- E&H Hardware GroupHardware stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,144 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Richmond HeightsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richmond Heights’ 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.
Richmond Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richmond Heights$242,809
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Richmond Heights 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.
- Richmond Heights29.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Richmond Heights32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Richmond Heights11
Zip codes with a Richmond Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richmond Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.