Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Typical home $351,837 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,822 (+9.0%). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Shaker Heights is in Cuyahoga County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Shaker Heights City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,060 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,256 +2%
- $343,581$351,837 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,044 +34%
- $262,793$351,837 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.
- Shaker Heights$1,847
- 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 Shaker Heights, OH rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Shaker Heights, OH rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Shaker Heights runs $988/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,019 in Aug 2025.
That is $2,810 a month against $1,822 rent: a $1,847 mortgage payment, plus $587 property tax and $377 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Shaker Heights
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,810
- Renting$1,822
- Mortgage only$1,847
Property tax · $587/mo 2.00% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cuyahoga County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $377/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Shaker Heights is a city of 29,439 people in Cuyahoga County. Half its households earn more than $104,073 a year and half less, against $64,468 across Cuyahoga County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Shaker Heights was 1.8% in August 2026, and Cuyahoga County had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Shaker Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County with a settled, established feel. Households here earn well above the county's typical income, and a smaller share of residents live in poverty than you might expect for the region. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of residents rent, and the great majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and banks, insurance and property. The largest workplaces in the city include Shaker Heights City Schools, Bellefaire JCB, and Heinen's. Unemployment is low and has fallen over the past year, though jobs across Cuyahoga County have slipped slightly. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Museum of Art are both museums a short drive away, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is nearby as well. For time outdoors, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away.
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- 12,806households
- 69%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 23%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Shaker Heights
- University Hospital Health System1,331
- Shaker Heights City School District1,293
- City of Shaker Heights545
- Hathaway Brown School489
- Laurel School259
- The Cleveland Clinic Foundation226
- Heinen's Inc222
- University School (Shaker Heights Campus)187
From the City of Shaker Heights’ annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA)”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shaker Heights’ 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 Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Shaker Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shaker Heights$351,837
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Shaker Heights listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 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.
- Shaker Heights25.27%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Shaker Heights27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shaker Heights150
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shaker Heights36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Shaker Heights$367,971
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Shaker Heights101.75%
Zip codes with a Shaker Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shaker Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Shaker Heights
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44122 | Beachwood | 36,678 | $2,088 | $376,952 |
| 44120 | Cleveland | 33,202 | $1,116 | $131,979 |