Rootstown, Ohio.
Typical home $278,289 (+6.3% in a year). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Rootstown
Rootstown is in Portage County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$825 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,425 +6%
- $261,864$278,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,501 +33%
- $209,788$278,289 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.
- Rootstown$1,461
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Rootstown, OH rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio
Rootstown is a township of 8,602 people in Portage County. Half its households earn more than $89,185 a year and half less, against $75,766 across Portage County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rootstown is a township in Portage County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Residents are around the age of the typical American, and poverty is less common than many places. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also common. Northeast Ohio Medical University and Rootstown Local Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are a bit longer than a quick trip across town, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Triangle Lake Bog State Nature Preserve is a protected area in or beside town, and West Branch State Park is a short drive away for time outdoors. For a longer outing, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and the Akron Art Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 3,452households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%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 Rootstown
- Northeast Ohio Medical UniversityUniversity or college454
- Rootstown Local SchoolsSchool district231FTE
- General Aluminum LLC, RavennaPermanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing125
- Bio-Med Science Academy STEM SchoolSchool district95FTE
- HEPA Environmental ServicesAsbestos abatement services57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 182 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Portage County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Rootstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rootstown$278,289
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rootstown11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rootstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rootstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.