Sandusky, Ohio.
Typical home $152,567 (+1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,039 . Sandusky, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Sandusky
Sandusky’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Sandusky is in Erie County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Perkins Local and Sandusky City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$480 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,769 +1%
- $150,798$152,567 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,056 +34%
- $113,511$152,567 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.
- Sandusky$801
- 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 Sandusky, OH rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio
Sandusky is a city of 25,095 people in Erie County. Half its households earn more than $50,139 a year and half less, against $71,993 across Erie County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Sandusky was 3.9% in August 2026, and Erie County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sandusky is a small city on the shore of Lake Erie, and its people tend to be younger than in many American towns. Incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Renting is common, with fewer homes lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common here than across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, while July is warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Sandusky are Cedar Point, Firelands Regional Medical Center and Sandusky City Schools. Unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs. Most people have a short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Cedar Point, the amusement park, sits in or beside town and is the best known place nearby. Its roller coasters, among them Millennium Force, Raptor and Maverick, are tourist attractions in their own right and are also in or beside town.
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- 10,973households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Erie County had 36,374 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Sandusky
- Magnum Management Corp.6,590
- Firelands Regional Health System2,032
- Ventra Sandusky LLC796
- Erie County739
- Sandusky Board of Education735
- Providence Care Center382
- City of Sandusky341
- US Tsubaki Power Transmission199
From the City of Sandusky’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Employees based on number of W2's received”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of SanduskyRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sandusky’s census tracts, 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 Erie County and the Sandusky, OH metro.
Sandusky home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sandusky$152,567
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sandusky listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 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.
- Sandusky26.09%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sandusky14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sandusky129
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sandusky43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sandusky$155,041
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sandusky97.64%
Zip codes with a Sandusky address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sandusky — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.