Wadsworth, Ohio.
Typical home $321,033 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $1,650 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Wadsworth
Wadsworth’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Wadsworth is in Medina County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Highland Local and Wadsworth City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$936 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,901 +4%
- $308,132$321,033 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,958 +31%
- $245,075$321,033 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.
- Wadsworth$1,685
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Wadsworth, OH rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio
Wadsworth is a city of 24,007 people in Medina County. Half its households earn more than $79,490 a year and half less, against $94,968 across Medina County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Medina County was 1.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wadsworth is a city in Medina County, Ohio. Residents are of middling age, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with a good share of renters too. Incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with a January that stays below freezing most days, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Wadsworth are Wadsworth City Schools, Walmart and ECS Tuning. Jobs across Medina County have edged up over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Chippewa Lake Park, an amusement park, and Portage Lakes State Park, a protected area for time outdoors, are both a short drive away. The Akron Fossils & Science Center, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer day out, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a longer drive away.
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- 10,489households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Medina County had 63,249 jobs in 2025, 0.6% 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 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wadsworth
- Wadsworth City School District
- City of Wadsworth
- ECS Tuning LLC
- Rohrer Corporation
- Clampco Products, Inc.
- Soprema Inc
- Remington Products Co
- WalMart Assoc Inc
From the City of Wadsworth’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Central Collection Agency (CCA) records for 2015; Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA) records for 2024”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order, by the city income tax they withheld.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wadsworth’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 Medina County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Wadsworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wadsworth$321,033
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wadsworth listings, and the typical home goes pending in 6 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.
- Wadsworth26.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wadsworth6
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wadsworth76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wadsworth35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wadsworth$270,366
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wadsworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wadsworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.