Sullivan, Ohio.
Typical home $291,933 (+5.3% in a year). Ashland, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Sullivan
Sullivan is in Ashland County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$929 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,767 +5%
- $277,166$291,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,466 +35%
- $216,467$291,933 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.
- Sullivan$1,532
- 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 Sullivan, OH rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sullivan, Ashland County, Ohio
Sullivan, in Ashland County, had 603 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ashland County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashland County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sullivan is a very small rural community in Ashland County, with few residents and plenty of open country around it. Typical home values are well above what the town's size might suggest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a good amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Ashland County, some of the largest workplaces are Ashland University, Ashland City Schools and UH Samaritan Medical Center. The county's jobs have slipped a little over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes are long, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. Findley State Park is a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, the Black Fork Mohican River and Charles Mill Lake, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away and suit people who like time on the water. The Ohio State Reformatory, now a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Ashland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashland County had 18,625 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chippewa Lake weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashland County
- Ashland UniversityUniversity or college979
- Ashland City SchoolsSchool district596FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters423
- Brethren Care Management ServicesContinuing care retirement communities378
- UH Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital378FTE
- Nelson Tree ServiceArborist services345
- Mapleton Local SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- PentairCentrifugal pumps manufacturing259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 59 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,840 people in all across the county; Sullivan has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sullivan’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Ashland County and the Ashland, OH metro.
Sullivan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sullivan$291,933
- 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.
- Sullivan8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sullivan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sullivan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.