Willowick, Ohio.
Typical home $199,168 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,546 . Cleveland-Elyria, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Willowick
Willowick’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Willowick 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 — +$560 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,340 +3%
- $193,828$199,168 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,167 +28%
- $155,001$199,168 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.
- Willowick$1,045
- 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 Willowick, OH rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willowick, Lake County, Ohio
Willowick is a city of 14,204 people in Lake County. Half its households earn more than $77,228 a year and half less, against $80,925 across Lake County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willowick is a small city in Lake County, Ohio, where most homes are lived in by their owners. The population is somewhat older than the typical American town, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Homes here are priced modestly, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than it is in many places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail also employing many people. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Lake Hospital System, Lubrizol Wickliffe and the Mentor Exempted Village Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with a fair number of people working from home.
Things to do. Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park, and the Chagrin River are both a short drive away. The Cleveland Museum of Art and Cuyahoga Valley National Park are a longer drive away, as is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the best known museums in the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 6,354households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents 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, 9 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; Willowick has two 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 in parts of WillowickRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willowick’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.
Willowick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willowick$199,168
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Willowick 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.
- Willowick31.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willowick53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willowick22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Willowick$213,488
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Willowick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willowick — 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.