Sheffield, Ohio.
Typical home $291,452 (+1.2% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Sheffield
Sheffield’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Sheffield is in Lorain County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$854 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,342 +1%
- $288,111$291,452 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,502 +28%
- $226,951$291,452 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.
- Sheffield$1,530
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Sheffield, OH rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio
Sheffield is a village of 4,135 people in Lorain County. Half its households earn more than $107,837 a year and half less, against $73,347 across Lorain County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Lorain County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheffield is a village in Lorain County, Ohio. Households here have incomes well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Sheffield are Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City Schools, PPG Industries and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Unemployment across Lorain County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Black River is a short drive away, and so is the Lorain Palace Theatre. For a longer outing, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the best known museums in the region, is a longer drive away, as is the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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- 1,733households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lorain County had 99,738 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 44 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elyria East weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sheffield
- Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City SchoolsSchool district359FTE
- PPG IndustriesCoating metals and metal products for the trade106
- The Cleveland Clinic FoundationHealthcare93
- Green ImpressionsLandscape care and maintenance services72
- Luxury Heating CoHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors60
- Endries International Inc. - OHDCHardware merchant wholesalers59
- Sheffield Metals International (Sheffield Village, OH)Structural assemblies, metal, merchant wholesalers47
- Precision Vehicle Logistics - OHAPDriving services29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 466 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Sheffield’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 Lorain County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Sheffield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheffield$291,452
- 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.
- Sheffield13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sheffield5
Zip codes with a Sheffield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheffield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.