Sylvania, Ohio.
Typical home $321,633 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,994 . Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Sylvania
Sylvania’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Sylvania is in Lucas County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Sylvania Schools school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,564 +3%
- $311,069$321,633 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,379 +28%
- $252,254$321,633 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.
- Sylvania$1,688
- 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 Sylvania, OH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio
Sylvania is a city of 19,011 people in Lucas County. Half its households earn more than $100,189 a year and half less, against $62,224 across Lucas County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lucas County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sylvania is a city in Lucas County, close to Toledo, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run well above the county's. Adults here are more likely than not to hold a four-year degree, and few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summers and the year is reasonably wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Sylvania are Flower Hospital, Lourdes University and Kingston Care Center of Sylvania. Commutes are of middling length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Wildwood Preserve Metropark, a protected area, and the Ottawa River are both in or beside town, which makes walking and time outdoors easy. A short drive away are the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Zoo. For a longer outing, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is a longer drive away.
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- 7,512households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lucas County had 194,976 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 37 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Express Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sylvania
- Flower HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,231
- Lourdes UniversityUniversity or college298
- Kingston Care Center of SylvaniaNursing homes249
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores217
- Regency Hospital of ToledoLong-term care hospital164FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores147
- Kingston Residence of SylvaniaAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities124
- Fonguh Delivery ServicesCourier services108
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,451 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sylvania’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 Lucas County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Sylvania home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sylvania$321,633
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sylvania listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 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.
- Sylvania26.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sylvania9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sylvania119
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sylvania55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sylvania$293,305
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sylvania101.04%
Zip codes with a Sylvania address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sylvania — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.