Wellington, Ohio.
Typical home $215,543 (+0.1% in a year). Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Wellington
Wellington’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Wellington is in Lorain County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Black River Local and Wellington Exempted Village. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $226 +0%
- $215,317$215,543 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,742 +28%
- $167,801$215,543 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.
- Wellington$1,131
- 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 Wellington, OH rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio
Wellington is a village of 4,799 people in Lorain County. Half its households earn more than $61,578 a year and half less, against $73,347 across Lorain County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Lorain County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellington is a small village in Lorain County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind in the state would expect to find in a county seat. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is younger than many might guess for a rural village. Household incomes run below the county's, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Wellington are Wellington Exempted Village Schools and Forest City Technologies, which makes oil filters for automotive, truck and bus use, along with NN, a maker of precision turned products. Unemployment in Lorain County has fallen over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Commutes are on the long side for a village, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Findley State Park lies in or beside town and is the nearest place to get outdoors. A short drive away are the Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Oberlin Heritage Center, both museums, and Tappan Square, a park, in Oberlin. For a longer outing, the Ohio State Reformatory is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 1,956households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lorain County had 99,738 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oberlin weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wellington
- Wellington Exempted Village SchoolsSchool district164FTE
- Forest City TechnologiesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing155
- NNPrecision turned product manufacturing109
- Forest City TechnologiesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing107
- Shiloh WellingtonMotor vehicle metal parts stamping103
- Forest City TechnologiesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing56
- Precision FittingsSteel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished50
- Brumfield Foods ServicesGrocery stores45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 809 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellington’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 Lorain County and the Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Wellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellington$215,543
- 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.
- Wellington10
Zip codes with a Wellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.