Thompson, Ohio.
Typical home $318,509 (+6.0% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Thompson
Thompson is in Geauga County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$967 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,985 +6%
- $300,525$318,509 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,692 +34%
- $237,818$318,509 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.
- Thompson$1,672
- 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 Thompson, OH rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thompson, Geauga County, Ohio
Thompson is a township of 2,144 people in Geauga County. Half its households earn more than $91,275 a year and half less, against $107,860 across Geauga County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Geauga County was 1.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thompson is a small rural township in Geauga County, home to a small community, and the population skews older than in most places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run below the county's, though poverty is low. Winters are cold and very snowy, with summers that turn pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, professional and business services, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across Geauga County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Lakes Cheese, CabinetWorks Group Middlefield Plant 2 and UH Regional Hospitals. Unemployment in the county is low and has come down from a year earlier, and commutes are fairly long, with a modest number of people working from home.
Things to do. Big Creek is a short drive away. Farther afield, Holden Arboretum is a botanical garden, Headlands Beach State Park is a protected area on the lakeshore, and Geneva State Park is another protected area, each a longer drive away.
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- 942households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Geauga County had 36,738 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more 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 81° and lows near 59°. About 114 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chardon weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Geauga County
- Great Lakes CheeseCheese merchant wholesalers1,060
- CabinetWorks Group Middlefield Plant 2Cabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing880
- UH Regional HospitalsGeneral hospital838FTE
- Kenston Local SchoolsSchool district594FTE
- Chardon Local SchoolsSchool district522FTE
- West Geauga Local SchoolsSchool district513FTE
- Cabinetworks Group Middlefield PlantKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing340
- Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Corporate OfficeCheese merchant wholesalers333
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,069 people in all across the county; Thompson has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Geauga County, 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 Geauga County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Thompson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thompson$318,509
- 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.
Zip codes with a Thompson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thompson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.