Cleveland, Ohio housing market: home prices and forecast
Cleveland, Ohio home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index put a typical home in Cleveland, Ohio at $115,810 in September 2026, −2.8% under the March 2025 peak of $119,105 and −0.8% on a year earlier.
- Value of a typical home
- $115,810September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- −0.8%. Compared with September 2025.
Cleveland, Ohio home prices since 2000
Cleveland, Ohio appears as the steel line, and the United States as the grey one. Since January 2000 the typical home in Cleveland, Ohio has moved from $80,680 to $115,810, ×1.44, while the US rose ×2.99 in those months. The boom peak was set in August 2006, when the typical home reached $103,348; the low came in April 2013 at $45,700, −55.8%.
Cleveland, Ohio home price by year, median
A year is shown as the average of its twelve monthly values, and 2026 stands for the latest month.
| Year | Cleveland, Ohio | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $82,511 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $86,543 | +4.9% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $88,971 | +2.8% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $91,574 | +2.9% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $95,469 | +4.3% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $99,703 | +4.4% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $102,929 | +3.2% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $98,519 | −4.3% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $86,116 | −12.6% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $69,075 | −19.8% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $63,975 | −7.4% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $53,403 | −16.5% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $46,726 | −12.5% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $46,989 | +0.6% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $48,125 | +2.4% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $52,053 | +8.2% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $57,492 | +10.5% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $60,391 | +5.0% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $67,367 | +11.6% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $75,045 | +11.4% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $80,167 | +6.8% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $97,931 | +22.2% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $105,892 | +8.1% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $105,710 | −0.2% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $114,922 | +8.7% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $117,710 | +2.4% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $115,810 | −0.8% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in any year in Cleveland, Ohio is worth now
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure comes from averaging its twelve monthly index values; the current value is September 2026. Other tools: home appreciation calculator.
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Forecast for the Cleveland, Ohio housing market
Zillow's forecast puts the Cleveland, OH metro up +3.7% across the 12 months beginning September 2026, and up +1.2% across the next three months. Starting from Cleveland, Ohio's $115,810 typical value, the forecast points to a price near $120,100 in a year.
What appears here comes from Zillow's central estimate for the metro; the site itself offers no forecast of its own. Forecasts of this kind over 12 months have typically been off by several percentage points from the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts sit in one table: housing market forecast.
Crash risk score for the Cleveland, Ohio housing market
19 out of 100, rated low
The score ranks Cleveland, Ohio against 292 cities, using five conditions that ran high before earlier price falls. Every input is placed from 0 to 100 relative to the other cities, then the five scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows today's conditions; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −35.2% | 10 | 20% |
| Days a home is on the market vs 2019 | −25.4% | 5 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 7.1 | 1 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 2.7 | 3 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −0.8% | 76 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. How each input gets its score: the methodology. The crash risk by city list ranks all 292 cities.
Cleveland, Ohio: inventory and days on market
For September 2026 the Cleveland, OH metro had a total of 4,417 homes for sale, +16.8% above a year earlier and −35.2% below September 2019. A listing sold in a median of 44 days (−25.4% against 2019); price cuts applied to 21.1% of listings.
| Cleveland, OH metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 4,417 | +16.8% |
| New listings | 2,632 | |
| Median days on market | 44 | +2.3% |
| Median list price | $259,900 | 0% |
| Share with a price cut | 21.1% |
Metro inventory: Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. All metros: days on market by city.
What it costs to live in Cleveland, Ohio
By the Zillow Observed Rent Index, a typical asking rent in Cleveland, Ohio runs $1,359 a month, +4.3% on the year. The cost of a typical home is 7.1 years of that rent. Median household income in the area is $43,383 (Census ACS 2024), which puts the typical home at 2.7 times a year's income. For the metro, BEA sets prices at 93.9, where the US average is 100, and housing costs at 79.4.
What rent and prices run, and the salary needed to move there: living costs in Cleveland, Ohio.
More housing markets across Ohio
- Columbus, Ohio $243,122
- $245,743 in Cincinnati.
- $131,766 in Toledo.
- $138,865 in Akron.
- $137,939 in Dayton.
For the whole state: Ohio housing market.
How to read this chart
Every point plots the Zillow Home Value Index for Cleveland, Ohio: a typical home in the market's middle third, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, valued in that month's dollars. One hollow dot shows the month picked on the slider, and one terracotta dot shows the most recent month. Inflation is not taken out of these numbers, and an index follows the typical home instead of one specific house: find the value of a single home from its own sale price using the card just above or the home appreciation calculator.