Waite Hill, Ohio.
Typical home $808,711 (+6.1% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Waite Hill
Waite Hill’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Waite Hill is in Lake County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Kirtland Local and Willoughby-Eastlake City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,319 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $46,341 +6%
- $762,371$808,711 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $187,188 +30%
- $621,523$808,711 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.
- Waite Hill$4,245
- 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 Waite Hill, OH rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waite Hill, Lake County, Ohio
Waite Hill is a village of 543 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $163,750 a year and half less, against $80,925 across Lake County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 1.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waite Hill is a very small village, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very little poverty. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation, rain and melted snow together, is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Lake Hospital System, Steris and Lubrizol Wickliffe.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are Holden Arboretum, a large botanical garden, and the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, which preserves the home of the twentieth president. The Chagrin River is also a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
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- 250households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 99,690 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kirtland-holden weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- SterisIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services2,520
- Lake Hospital SystemGeneral hospital1,585FTE
- Mentor Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district1,440FTE
- Lubrizol WickliffeOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing1,029
- Willoughby-Eastlake City SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- Lakeland Community CollegeTwo-year college662
- Riverside Local SchoolsSchool district652FTE
- The Lincoln Electric Company - MentorWelding wire or rods manufacturing515
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 236 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,486 people in all across the county; Waite Hill has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waite Hill’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 Lake County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Waite Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waite Hill$808,711
- 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 Waite Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waite Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.