Stow, Ohio.
Typical home $289,337 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,536 (+9.6%). Akron, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Stow
Stow’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Stow is in Summit County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Stow-Munroe Falls City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,505 +3%
- $281,832$289,337 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,954 +27%
- $228,383$289,337 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.
- Stow$1,519
- 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 Stow, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Stow, OH rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Stow runs $661/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $764 in Jun 2025.
That is $2,198 a month against $1,536 rent: a $1,519 mortgage payment, plus $369 property tax and $310 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Stow
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$2,198
- Renting$1,536
- Mortgage only$1,519
Property tax · $369/mo 1.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Summit County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $310/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 Stow, Summit County, Ohio
Stow is a city of 34,483 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $93,727 a year and half less, against $71,622 across Summit County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Stow was 3.3% in August 2026, and Summit County had 0.4% 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 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. Stow is a city in Summit County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above 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 summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall 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 good number. The largest workplaces in Stow include the Stow-Munroe Falls City School District, Iron Mountain and Walmart. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though across Summit County there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a short drive away and gives room for walking and time outdoors. The Akron Art Museum, also a short drive off, is a place to spend an afternoon indoors. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a museum in Cleveland.
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- 14,393households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summit County had 259,891 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stow Southeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Stow
- Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools690
- NMG Aerospace306
- RMG240
- City of Stow225
- DHL186
- Matco Tools Corporation183
- Cleveland Clinic (Akron General) Wellness175
- Haydon Corporation142
From the City of Stow’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “City of Stow, Department of Planning & Development”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stow’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 Summit County and the Akron, OH metro.
Stow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stow$289,337
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Stow listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 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.
- Stow18.20%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Stow7
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stow77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stow42
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Stow$264,980
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Stow102.18%
Zip codes with a Stow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.