Massillon, Ohio: Under-County-Median Prices and Above-Average Sale Speed

Massillon homes sold at a median price of $177,450 in July 2026, about $60,000 under the county’s $237,000, and they went under contract in 28 days on average against a county figure of 29, per Stark County MLS data. That median is up 4.4 percent from July 2025. The 46 closed sales behind these numbers make this one of the more statistically solid data sets in the county. Canton city, Alliance, and Fairless all post lower medians, so Massillon is not the cheapest entry point in Stark County, but it is well under the county middle while still selling at better-than-average speed.

Massillon is not a Canton suburb. It’s the second-largest city in the Canton-Massillon metro, with about 32,338 residents per U.S. Census ACS 2024 estimates, its own downtown on the original Lincoln Highway, its own 2 percent income tax, and a football identity that the rest of Ohio knows by one word: Tigers. Buyers who treat it as an afterthought to Canton miss what the market data actually shows, which is a price well under the county median paired with sale speed a shade better than average.

Market data: Stark County MLS. Headline figures are July 2026; the detail tables below are March 2026 and labeled as such. Tax rates: Stark County Auditor CAMA, 2025 tax year. Last updated: 2026-08-22.

Quick Facts: Massillon, Ohio

Metric	Massillon (Massillon CSD)
Median Sale Price (Jul 2026)	$177,450
Avg Days on Market (Jul 2026)	28 days
Year-over-Year Price Change (Jul 2026)	+4.4%
Closed Sales (Jul 2026)	46
Median Sale Price (Mar 2026)	$177,450
Median Price Per Sq Ft (Mar 2026)	$142
Avg Days on Market (Mar 2026)	42.0 days
Year-over-Year Price Change (Mar 2026)	+16.4%
List-to-Sale Price Ratio (Mar 2026)	100.0%
Closed Sales (Mar 2026)	26
School District	Massillon City Schools
Property Tax Rate	56.47 effective mills (on taxable value)
Annual Tax on $200K Home	~$3,953 before credits
City Income Tax	2% (100% credit for tax paid elsewhere)
ZIP Codes	44646, 44647, 44648
Population	32,338 (ACS 2024)
Distance to Downtown Canton	~8 miles (15 minutes)

Massillon’s median happened to land at the same $177,450 in both months. July is the most recent closed month; March detail is retained for the year-over-year and per-square-foot comparisons used below.

Why Buyers Choose Massillon

Price is the first reason. Massillon’s $177,450 median runs about 15.5 percent below the March 2026 county-wide median of $210,000, and at $142 per square foot it undercuts the county’s $150 average. In practical terms, the budget that buys a dated two-bedroom in Jackson Local territory buys a full three-bedroom here, often with a garage and a real yard. The price gap reflects an older housing stock (the city’s median home was built in 1956, and roughly a third of the stock predates 1939, per ACS data compiled by NeighborhoodScout), not absent demand.

The demand part shows up in the speed. Massillon homes averaged 42 days from listing to contract in March 2026, faster than Plain Township, North Canton, and Jackson Township. Here’s the wrinkle worth knowing: county-wide, the $150,000-to-$199,999 price tier was the slowest tier in the county at 63 days on average. Massillon’s market sits squarely in that tier and still moved in 42. Sellers got 100 percent of list price at the median. A 16.4 percent year-over-year jump in a single month’s comparison deserves some caution, one month is one month, but the direction is consistent with what I see on the ground: entry-level buyers have discovered this market.

The third reason is that Massillon is an actual city, not a bedroom community. There’s a downtown with a 1915 theater, a free museum that’s been accredited since 1972, a 69,000-square-foot recreation center, and a Friday-night institution that seats 16,884. Employers like Shearer’s Foods (headquartered here), Republic Steel, and Fresh Mark mean plenty of residents both live and work in town.

Real Estate Market Snapshot

Massillon was Stark County’s third-busiest district market in March 2026 with 26 closed sales, behind Canton City Schools (37) and Plain Local (32), and ahead of Jackson Local (22). Median price $177,450, median $142 per square foot, 42 days on market, and a 100.0 percent list-to-sale ratio. Forty-nine new listings hit the market during the month, so inventory is turning over rather than piling up.

For buyers, the practical read is this: come pre-approved and expect company at showings, because correctly priced homes here don’t wait around. For sellers, the 100 percent list-to-sale ratio cuts both ways. Price it right and the market pays it. Overprice it and you become the listing that sits while the neighbor’s house sells in five weeks. As a nine-time Canton Repository Community’s Choice winner working Stark County, I run the Massillon comps weekly, and the spread between right-priced and over-priced outcomes here is as wide as anywhere in the county.

Area	Median Price (Mar 2026)	Avg DOM	$/Sq Ft	List-to-Sale	YoY Change	Tax Rate
Massillon CSD	$177,450	42.0 days	$142	100.0%	+16.4%	56.47 mills
Perry Township	$252,000	54.1 days	$141	99.0%	+22.6%	51.29 mills
Canton City Schools	$98,000	46.1 days	$78	100.0%	-7.2%	51.56 mills
Stark County (overall)	$210,000	49.2 days	$150	100.0%	+5.0%	varies

Source: Stark County MLS data, March 2026; Stark County Auditor CAMA, 2025 tax year. MLS data is reported by school district; Massillon CSD is the closest available proxy for the city of Massillon. District-level active inventory is not available from the MLS stats tool.

Schools and Education

Massillon City Schools earned a 2.5-star overall rating on the 2024-25 Ohio School Report Cards, a “needs support to meet state standards” result, with component scores of 2 stars in Achievement, 1 in Progress, 2 in Gap Closing, 2 in Graduation, 3 in Early Literacy, and 3 in College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness. That’s the honest headline number, and buyers comparing districts should see it next to Jackson Local’s 4.5 stars or Perry Local’s 4 before deciding what matters for their situation. Current ratings are at reportcard.education.ohio.gov.

The headline number isn’t the whole story, though. Massillon’s career technical education program earned a 5-star CTE rating for 2023-24, one of only five CTE districts out of 91 statewide to score 5 stars in all four components, per massillonschools.org. The program posted a 99.3 percent positive post-program outcome rate, third-highest in Ohio, and 70 percent of its students earned industry credentials across 14 program areas open to all enrolled students, including automotive technology, construction trades, nursing careers, and manufacturing and engineering. For a student headed toward a trade or technical career, that pipeline is genuinely hard to beat anywhere in northeast Ohio.

The district runs about 4,089 students across Franklin, Gorrell, and Whittier elementaries (K-3), Massillon Middle School (4-8), and Washington High School (9-12), which enrolls about 1,230 and has operated since 1914. District facilities include Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, with a capacity of 16,884 per massillontigers.com, and the adjacent Paul L. David Athletic Center, an indoor practice facility that Wikipedia lists as the largest of its kind in Ohio. Those facilities serve district athletic programs and school events throughout the year.

What It’s Like to Live Here

Living in Massillon means having an actual downtown, a 30-park system, and a civic calendar that runs on Tiger football. The downtown sits along Lincoln Way, which carried the original Lincoln Highway in 1913 and became US-30 in 1928. A streetscape project funded through a state transportation grant rebuilt the downtown blocks with new crosswalks and landscaping, and the core now holds more going on than most Stark County downtowns. The Massillon Museum at 121 Lincoln Way East is free, every day, with a collection of over 100,000 objects including the Paul Brown Museum of Tiger football history. The Lions Lincoln Theatre, built in 1915 and restored, seats 681 for concerts and classic films. Duncan Plaza, a 40,000-square-foot public square, runs a summer concert series and a winter ice rink with free skate rentals on weekends.

The recreation infrastructure is unusual for a city this size. The Massillon Recreation Center on Erie Street North covers 69,000 square feet with a lazy river, two 20-foot water slides, a lap pool, two regulation basketball courts, and a walking track. The city parks system spans more than 30 parks: Wampler Park has a splash pad and six pickleball courts, Furnas Park has an off-leash dog park, and the Sippo Valley Trail starts at Bottoms Park and runs 10 miles west to Dalton, connecting to the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail network. Historic Fourth Street, one of the first neighborhoods in the country listed on the National Register of Historic Places, holds the city’s best stock of 19th-century architecture.

And then there’s football. On fall Friday nights, Paul Brown Tiger Stadium fills with crowds that most small colleges would envy. Washington High has claimed nine Associated Press national championships and won the OHSAA state title in 2023. You don’t have to care about football to live here, but it helps to understand that the town does. It’s the civic calendar, the economy on home-game weekends, and the reason strangers in Massillon gear nod at each other in airports.

Location and Getting Around

Massillon sits about 8 miles west of downtown Canton, a 15-minute drive on Lincoln Way East or US-30. US-30 runs east-west through the city and connects to I-77 on the Canton side for trips north toward Akron or south toward Dover. State Route 21 runs north-south along the city’s western edge toward the Akron area. For healthcare, Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital’s main campus is about 8 miles away in Canton, and Mercy operates an urgent and outpatient care location in town at 2935 Lincoln Way West.

The commuting math matters less here than in the townships because a meaningful share of residents work in the city. Shearer’s Foods is headquartered in Massillon, Republic Steel and Fresh Mark run operations here, and the school district itself is a major employer. The city’s 2 percent income tax comes with a 100 percent credit for taxes paid to another municipality, capped at 2 percent, so a Massillon resident working in Canton doesn’t pay both cities, per massillonohio.gov.

Property Taxes and Cost of Living

Massillon City School District carries the highest effective residential property tax rate in Stark County: 56.47 mills for the 2025 tax year, per the Stark County Auditor’s CAMA records. That figure is the mean across the district’s sub-districts, so individual parcels vary. Ohio applies millage to taxable value, which is 35 percent of a home’s market value. On a $200,000 home, that’s $70,000 of taxable value, and 56.47 mills works out to about $3,953 a year before Ohio’s non-business and owner-occupancy credits trim the bill further. Actual net bills on owner-occupied homes typically come in somewhat lower.

Here’s the part the rate tables don’t tell you: the highest rate in the county doesn’t mean the highest bill. Taxes are paid on what your home is worth, and Massillon homes cost less. At the March 2026 median of $177,450, the annual tax runs about $3,507. A median-priced Plain Township home, at $249,750 and a much lower rate of 41.65 mills, pays about $3,641 a year. The Massillon buyer pays a steeper rate on a smaller number and ends up with the smaller tax bill, plus roughly $72,000 less mortgage debt. Run the full comparison in the Stark County property tax guide before letting a millage table scare you off.

The rest of the cost picture leans the same direction. Massillon’s overall cost of living index was 89.1 in December 2024 per city-data.com, against a U.S. baseline of 100. The median household income is about $57,000 per ACS 2024 estimates, and 65.2 percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied. One budgeting note that comes with the affordability: with a median build year of 1956, plan for older-home realities like 100-amp panels, original galvanized plumbing, and roofs on their second or third cycle. Inspection findings here are rarely deal-killers, but they belong in your offer math. Buyers using OHFA down payment assistance will find most of the city’s inventory sits comfortably under the program’s price caps; see the Ohio first-time homebuyer programs guide for current terms.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much do homes cost in Massillon, Ohio?

The median sale price in Massillon City School District territory was $177,450 in March 2026, based on 26 closed sales, per Stark County MLS data. That is about 15.5 percent below the March county-wide median of $210,000, though it is not the county’s cheapest entry point: Canton City Schools at $98,000 and Alliance at $159,450 both came in lower that month. Homes sold at a median of $142 per square foot and averaged 42 days from listing to contract.

Why are homes in Massillon cheaper than the rest of Stark County?

Mostly housing stock age and size, not weak demand. Massillon’s median home was built in 1956, and roughly a third of the city’s stock predates 1939, per ACS data compiled by NeighborhoodScout. Older, smaller homes price lower than the 1990s-and-newer construction that dominates Jackson and Lake townships. The demand side is actually strong: Massillon homes sold faster in March 2026 than any other Stark County district with ten or more closed sales, and by July they were still moving in 28 days against the county’s 29, fetching 100 percent of list price at the median.

What are Massillon schools rated?

Massillon City Schools earned a 2.5-star overall rating on the 2024-25 Ohio School Report Cards, which is a “needs support” result. The district’s career technical education program is a different story: a 5-star CTE rating for 2023-24, one of only five CTE districts out of 91 statewide to earn 5 stars in all four components, with a 99.3 percent positive post-program outcome rate, per massillonschools.org. Check reportcard.education.ohio.gov for current ratings.

What is the property tax rate in Massillon, Ohio?

Massillon CSD’s effective residential rate is 56.47 mills for the 2025 tax year, the highest in Stark County, per the Stark County Auditor. Ohio millage applies to taxable value, which is 35 percent of market value, so a $200,000 home pays about $3,953 a year before owner-occupancy credits. At Massillon’s $177,450 median price, the annual bill runs about $3,507, which is less in actual dollars than a median-priced home pays in lower-rate Plain Township, because Plain’s homes cost more.

How fast do homes sell in Massillon?

Massillon homes averaged 42 days from listing to contract in March 2026, the fastest pace that month among Stark County districts with ten or more closed sales. By July that had tightened to 28 days, still a shade ahead of the county’s 29, though Fairless, Perry, North Canton, and Plain all moved faster. Per Stark County MLS data. The county average was 49 days. Notably, the county’s $150,000-to-$199,999 price tier averaged 63 days, the slowest tier county-wide, and Massillon’s market sits in that tier while moving 21 days faster.

Should I buy in Massillon or Perry Township?

Massillon if entry price is the constraint, Perry Township if you want the middle tier. Massillon’s median ran $177,450 in March 2026 against Perry’s $252,000, and Massillon homes moved 12 days faster. Perry Local Schools rates higher (4 stars to Massillon’s 2.5 overall) and its tax rate is lower (51.29 mills to 56.47). The two markets share a border along the Lincoln Way corridor, and plenty of buyers shop both at once. The Perry Township guide has the full picture.

Does Massillon have a city income tax?

Yes, 2 percent, effective tax year 2020 forward, per massillonohio.gov. Residents get a 100 percent credit for municipal income tax paid to another city, up to 2 percent, so working in Canton or North Canton doesn’t mean paying twice. That credit structure matters when comparing nearby towns: Louisville, for example, caps its credit at 1.2 percent, so the same Canton commuter keeps more take-home pay living in Massillon.

What is Massillon, Ohio known for?

Tiger football first: Washington High School has nine AP national championships, the 2023 OHSAA state title, and a stadium named for Paul Brown, the Massillon native who coached here before founding the Cleveland Browns franchise era and the Cincinnati Bengals. Paul Brown Tiger Stadium seats 16,884 per massillontigers.com. Beyond football, Massillon is known for the free Massillon Museum, its Lincoln Highway downtown, and an industrial history that still shows in employers like Republic Steel.

Massillon is one of the Stark County communities covered in depth here. To compare it against Jackson Township, North Canton, Plain Township, Perry Township, and the rest of the county, see the Stark County neighborhood guides or the full Canton Ohio real estate guide.