Hartville, Ohio: A $293,000 Median, Half-Acre Lots, and a Tax Line Most Buyers Miss

Homes carrying a Hartville address sold at a median price of $293,000 over the twelve months ending July 2026, up 9.4 percent from $267,500 the year before, on 120 closed sales, per Stark County MLS data. The median lot was 0.56 acres against a county median of 0.32, and one sale in eight came with three acres or more. Half the homes went under contract inside 18 days. Only three of the 120 sales closed under $150,000, in a county where nearly a fifth of July’s sales did.

Here is the part no listing site tells you. The Village of Hartville covers 2.70 square miles. ZIP 44632 covers 27.4 square miles. So roughly nine out of ten acres that carry a Hartville mailing address sit outside the village limits, in Lake Township or Marlboro Township, and the corporation line changes your property tax rate, your income tax, your school district, and who answers when you call 911. Same postmark, different bill.

Market data: Stark County MLS, twelve months ending July 2026 (n=120), auction sales included. Tax rates: Stark County Auditor CAMA, 2025 tax year, re-derived from the county’s July 23, 2026 export. Census figures: ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates. Written by Joey Marino, REALTOR®. Last updated: 2026-08-30.

Quick Facts: Hartville, Ohio

Metric	Hartville (44632 addresses)
Median Sale Price (12 mo. ending Jul 2026)	$293,000
Closed Sales	120
Year-over-Year Price Change	+9.4% (from $267,500)
Median Price Per Sq Ft	$185
Median Days on Market	18 days (average 33.5)
Median List-to-Sale Ratio	100.0%
Median Lot Size	0.56 acres
Median Year Built (sold homes)	1974
School Districts	Lake Local (87% of sales), Marlington Local (13%)
Property Tax Rate, Village Limits	48.06 effective mills (~$4,929/yr on a $293,000 home, before credits)
Municipal Income Tax	1.5% inside village limits; none in unincorporated Lake Township
ZIP Code	44632
Village Population	3,329 (2020 Census)
Distance to Downtown Canton	12 miles, about 21 minutes via SR 43

Why Buyers Choose Hartville

Land, mostly. The median Hartville sale sat on 0.56 acres, seventy-five percent more ground than the county median of 0.32, and fifteen of the 120 sales over the past year came with three acres or more, topping out at 17.69. That is the single hardest thing to buy anywhere else in Stark County at this price. You can find a quarter-acre lot in a Jackson Township subdivision for the same $293,000 that buys you an acre and a pole barn here.

The trade is commute time and inventory. Hartville had roughly 15 active listings in late August, against 156 sales a year in nearby Uniontown and 477 in North Canton. Homes turn over slowly because owners stay. When something does come up, it does not linger: median time to contract was 18 days and the median home sold for exactly its asking price. Buyers who plan to negotiate their way into this market usually lose to someone who wrote a clean offer.

Underneath all of it sits an economic engine that is strange for a village of 3,300. Three destination businesses on Edison Street NW draw more than three million visitors a year between them, per the Hartville Local Community Development organization. That is roughly 900 visitors annually for every resident, which is why a village this size carries the retail base it does, and why traffic on SR 619 on a Saturday morning is nothing like what the population sign suggests.

The data explains the land and the slow inventory, but not why people actually commit, and after enough sales here I can tell you what does. Hartville is a small village sitting in open country, and you get the Marketplace, Quail Hollow, and real local tourism without driving for any of it, while Canton, Akron, and Green stay a reasonable commute. I’ve watched buyers come in set on Jackson or North Canton and change their minds after one Saturday in town. When they do, it’s rarely about a particular house. It’s the half-acre lots and the open ground around them, the kind of room you can’t get in a Jackson subdivision at this price.

Real Estate Market Snapshot

Hartville carries the highest median price per square foot of the three northern-Stark markets buyers usually compare, at $185, and it was the only one of the three where the median sale price rose meaningfully over the past year. Uniontown’s median fell 4.2 percent over the same window. North Canton was essentially flat at plus 0.7 percent.

Metric	Hartville	Uniontown	North Canton	Stark County
Closed Sales (12 mo.)	120	156	477	4,281
Median Sale Price	$293,000	$300,000	$280,000	$231,000
Median Price Per Sq Ft	$185	$179	$173	$155
Median Days on Market	18	12	16	22
Year-over-Year Median Change	+9.4%	-4.2%	+0.7%	+4.5%
Median Lot Size	0.56 acres	0.47 acres	0.38 acres	0.32 acres
Months of Inventory	~1.5	~2.4	~1.4	~1.7

Source: Stark County MLS, twelve months ending July 31, 2026. Auction sales included. Inventory figures are late-August counts and should be read as approximate.

One number needs handling with care, because reading it wrong would cost a seller money. Median price is up 9.4 percent, but median price per square foot went the other way, down half a percent. Together those say Hartville homes did not appreciate 9.4 percent last year. Larger and pricier houses made up a bigger share of what sold. If you own an eleven-hundred-square-foot ranch off Prospect Avenue, that 9.4 percent is not a statement about your house. Per square foot is the honest appreciation signal, and it says the market held flat while the mix moved upmarket.

Averages carry the same trap. The average sale price was $378,823 against a $293,000 median, a gap created almost entirely by one 9,400-square-foot property on 11.53 acres that closed at $2.9 million in January. Use the median.

Schools and the 44632 District Line

Most Hartville addresses are Lake Local School District, but not all of them, and the exception costs real money. Of the 120 Hartville-addressed homes sold in the past year, 104 sat in Lake Local and 16 sat in Marlington Local. The Marlington properties are in Marlboro and Lexington Townships, outside the village, and they carried a higher median sale price of $344,250, mostly because they come with more land. Treat that 16-sale figure as directional rather than precise.

Lake Local serves the village, most of Lake Township, and small portions of Marlboro Township, running Lake Primary in Uniontown for preschool through first grade, Lake Elementary in Hartville for grades two through six, and Lake Middle and High School in Hartville for seven through twelve. On the 2024-2025 Ohio School Report Cards the district earned 4.5 stars overall with a 92.8 percent performance index, five stars in both Achievement and Graduation, four in Gap Closing and Progress, and three in Early Literacy and in College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness. It was rated five stars overall the year before. Superintendent Brett Yeagley reported per-pupil spending of $10,810 at a September 2025 board meeting. Those two three-star components are the ones I would ask a building principal about on a tour.

Marlington Local runs Washington, Marlboro, and Lexington Elementary schools plus Marlington Middle and Marlington High, with district offices in Alliance. Marlboro Elementary is at 8131 Edison Street in Louisville, not in Hartville, so a Marlington-district Hartville family drives a different direction for school than a Lake Local family does.

Two houses on the same road in Marlboro Township, both with Hartville mailing addresses, can sit in different districts. On a $293,000 home the difference is 53.45 effective mills in the Lake Local portion against 40.50 in the Marlington portion, which works out to about $1,328 a year, plus a different high school. Nothing on the listing, the sign, or the mailbox tells you which one you are buying. Pull the parcel on the Stark County Auditor’s real estate search at realestate.starkcountyohio.gov and read the taxing district before you write the offer. That takes about two minutes. As a REALTOR® with Whipple Auction & Realty and a member of the Stark Trumbull Association of REALTORS®, I would call it the single highest-value two minutes a buyer can spend in this ZIP code.

What It’s Like to Live Here

Hartville is built around a commercial core that predates the housing around it. The MarketPlace and Flea Market at 1289 Edison Street NW began in 1939 as a livestock and egg auction run by Sol Miller, moved to its current site in 2002, and is still family-run four generations on: 50-plus shops across three acres indoors, twelve acres and 230 covered spaces outdoors on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. The operator calls it America’s largest indoor and outdoor flea market, which is its own marketing claim rather than a verified ranking, but the scale is real. Hartville Kitchen (1966) and Hartville Hardware sit within about a mile. All three close Sundays, which catches out-of-town visitors constantly.

Quail Hollow Park at 13480 Congress Lake Avenue NE is in Hartville, not somewhere you drive to. More than 700 acres surround a 40-room Greek Revival manor house, with 7.7 miles of hiking trail including a paved accessible route, a 3.3-mile mountain bike trail, 4.4 miles of bridle trail, and a two-acre fishing pond. Stark Parks has managed it since January 2016, though half the internet still calls it Quail Hollow State Park and links to a dead ODNR page.

Congress Lake is a different story, and buyers get it wrong often enough to state plainly: the 200-acre lake is privately owned by the homeowners on it and by Congress Lake Club, founded in 1896, membership by invitation. A house on Congress Lake Avenue is not a house with lake access. Those rights attach to specific ownership, not to proximity, and the difference shows up in the price.

Commutes run about 12 miles and 21 minutes to downtown Canton on SR 43, 17 miles and 24 minutes to downtown Akron via I-77, and 9 miles to Akron-Canton Airport. One correction to what you will read elsewhere: Hartville has no interstate interchange. SR 619 runs east and west through town and reaches I-77 by way of SR 241 in Green, so anyone promising direct freeway access is glossing over six to eight miles of connector road. SARTA runs fixed-route service through Hartville and Uniontown.

The local history deserves accuracy, because most pages get it wrong. Amish families settled Stark County in 1905, arriving from Geauga County, and Mennonite families followed in the 1940s. The Amish settlement at Hartville ended in 2007 after just over a century, and local reporting in March 2026 described one remaining Amish church member believed to be living in Lake Township. The Mennonite institutional presence is current: Maple Grove Mennonite Church at 2121 Smith Kramer Street NE, and the Stark County Mennonite and Amish Historical Society at 1136 S. Prospect Avenue. Pages selling Hartville as a living Amish community are describing something that stopped being true close to twenty years ago.

Village or Township: What Changes at the Corporation Line

Buying inside Hartville village limits costs you less in property tax and more overall, and the crossover is not close. Village property owners pay 48.06 effective mills against 50.94 in the surrounding unincorporated Lake Township portion of the same school district, which saves about $295 a year on a $293,000 home. Then the village levies a 1.5 percent municipal income tax, effective January 1, 2024, which unincorporated Lake Township does not have at all. On $80,000 of earned income that is $1,200. The village credits 100 percent of municipal income tax paid to another city, up to 1 percent, so someone who already pays a percent or more where they work owes Hartville 0.5 percent instead, or $400.

Run it out. A household earning $80,000 that works from home or works somewhere with no municipal income tax pays roughly $905 a year more to live inside the village than a mile outside it. The same household commuting to a city that already takes 1 percent pays about $105 more. Nobody publishes this, and it is the actual answer to “should I buy in town or out.”

What you get for it is service coverage. Inside the village, Hartville Police at 650 S. Prospect Avenue runs 24-hour dispatch, and Hartville Fire and EMS operates from 411 E. Maple Street with career firefighter-paramedics, an ISO 4/6 classification, and EMS service dating to 1965. Outside the village, Lake Township contracts fire and EMS to three separate non-profit companies, the Greentown, Uniontown and Hartville volunteer departments, funded by township fire levies producing over a million dollars a year split evenly three ways, covering the entire unincorporated township with free emergency transport included. Township voters renewed that arrangement in November 2025, passing a 1.25-mill replacement levy 4,095 to 1,276. Policing outside the village comes from the Stark County Sheriff, except within the separately taxed Uniontown Police District.

Trash follows the same pattern. The village contracts Kimble Services with Monday pickup as a village service. Township residents hire their own hauler from among Vaughn’s, Kimble and Republic. Sewer inside the village is village-owned, treated at a plant rated for 0.60 million gallons a day serving roughly 2,300 residents. Water is the one thing I could not settle from public sources: the village runs no water department and names no supplier, and the Lake Township Chamber’s utility directory points to the City of Canton Water Department. Call Village Hall at 330.877.9222 and confirm it for the specific address before you close.

Property Taxes and Cost of Living

The Lake Local district average of 52.47 effective mills, which is the figure you will see quoted on most Stark County pages including some of mine, overstates the bill on a Hartville home. That average blends four taxing districts that run from 48.06 to 57.42 mills, and it gets pulled upward by the Uniontown police district at the top of that range. Hartville Village sits at the bottom.

Taxing District	Effective Mills	% of Market Value	Annual Tax on $293,000
Hartville Village, Lake Local	48.06	1.68%	~$4,929
Lake Township unincorporated, Lake Local	50.94	1.78%	~$5,224
Marlboro Township, Lake Local	53.45	1.87%	~$5,481
Marlboro Township, Marlington Local	40.50	1.42%	~$4,153
Lexington Township, Marlington Local	37.34	1.31%	~$3,829
Lake Local district average (commonly quoted)	52.47	1.84%	~$5,380

Source: Stark County Auditor CAMA, 2025 tax year, re-derived from the county’s July 23, 2026 export. Figures are before Ohio’s non-business and owner-occupancy credits.

Ohio applies millage to taxable value, which is 35 percent of market value, not to market value itself. A $293,000 home carries $102,550 of taxable value, so at the village rate that is 102.55 times 48.063, or about $4,929 a year before credits. Getting that 35 percent basis wrong inflates the estimate by nearly three times, and it is the most common way these numbers go wrong. Verify a specific address on the county estimator at taxestimator.starkcountyohio.gov before budgeting against it. My Stark County property tax guide walks through the credits in full.

On the housing itself, the village stock is old and there is almost nothing new. Median year built for homes that sold was 1974. Within village limits, ACS 2020-2024 estimates put 55.4 percent of housing units at pre-1980 construction and zero units built in 2020 or later. Roughly one unit in eight predates 1940. That has practical consequences at inspection. Budget for the systems report before you fall for the lot.

What’s Being Built

Supply is about to move, though not inside the village. Addison Lake, 198 single-family lots on roughly 96 acres of former farmland at 1594 Lake Center Street NW in Uniontown, began excavation in July 2026 with home construction possible before year end. The financing shows how hard the numbers were: $5.5 million in TIF revenue bonds, a county loan of up to $3.5 million, roughly $7.1 million in water main and lift station costs, and a 75 percent tax abatement on increased value for ten years. It also brings public water and sewer to an area currently on septic.

Inside the village, the moves have all been industrial: three outlots rezoned to General Industrial in March 2026, a strategic plan adopted that April, and a council proposal to pause data center reviews. Lake Township trustees separately rezoned about 80 acres east of Aultman Avenue for industrial expansion. The read for a buyer is that Hartville’s new supply is not housing, and the housing is arriving in Uniontown instead. My Lake Township guide covers the wider township, and the county picture sits on the Stark County neighborhoods hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much do homes cost in Hartville, Ohio?

The median sale price for a Hartville address was $293,000 over the twelve months ending July 2026, based on 120 closed sales, per Stark County MLS data. That is up 9.4 percent from $267,500 the prior year and about 27 percent above the Stark County median of $231,000. Homes sold at a median of $185 per square foot, and half went under contract within 18 days.

Is Hartville, Ohio in Lake Township?

Hartville is an incorporated village inside Lake Township, in northern Stark County. It was incorporated in 1951 and covers 2.70 square miles with 3,329 residents as of the 2020 Census. The 44632 ZIP code covers 27.4 square miles, so most land carrying a Hartville mailing address is outside the village, in unincorporated Lake Township or in Marlboro Township. The distinction changes your tax rate, your services, and sometimes your school district.

What school district is Hartville, Ohio in?

Most of Hartville is Lake Local School District, which serves the village, most of Lake Township, and part of Marlboro Township. Of 120 Hartville-addressed sales in the past twelve months, 104 were in Lake Local and 16 were in Marlington Local. Lake Local earned a 4.5-star overall rating with a 92.8 percent performance index on the 2024-2025 Ohio School Report Cards. Confirm the district for a specific parcel on the Stark County Auditor’s real estate search rather than assuming from the address.

What is the property tax rate in Hartville, Ohio?

A home inside Hartville village limits in the Lake Local district is taxed at 48.06 effective mills, or about 1.68 percent of market value, per Stark County Auditor records for the 2025 tax year. On a $293,000 home that is roughly $4,929 a year before Ohio’s non-business and owner-occupancy credits. Just outside the village in unincorporated Lake Township the rate is 50.94 mills, and in the Marlington Local portion it drops to 40.50. Ohio applies millage to 35 percent of market value, not to the full value.

Does Hartville, Ohio have a village income tax?

Yes. The Village of Hartville levies a 1.5 percent municipal income tax, raised to that rate on January 1, 2024. All residents and everyone working inside the village must file. The village credits 100 percent of municipal income tax paid to another city, up to 1 percent, so a resident who already pays 1 percent or more elsewhere owes Hartville 0.5 percent. Unincorporated Lake Township levies no municipal income tax, which is the main reason a township address can cost less overall despite a higher property tax rate.

Is it cheaper to live inside Hartville village limits or outside them?

Outside, for most households. The village saves you about $295 a year in property tax on a $293,000 home, but charges a 1.5 percent income tax the township does not. A household earning $80,000 with no offsetting municipal credit pays roughly $905 a year more inside the village. In exchange you get village police, a career fire and EMS department, village-contracted trash pickup, and village sewer. Outside, fire and EMS come from three non-profit companies under township contract, policing comes from the Stark County Sheriff, and you arrange your own trash service.

How far is Hartville, Ohio from Canton and Akron?

Downtown Canton is about 12 miles and 21 minutes south via SR 43. Downtown Akron is about 17 miles and 24 minutes north via I-77. Akron-Canton Airport is 9 miles away and is the nearest major airport. Hartville has no interstate interchange of its own: SR 619 runs east and west through the village and connects to I-77 through SR 241 in Green, six to eight miles west.

What is Hartville, Ohio known for?

Three businesses on Edison Street NW, mostly: the Hartville MarketPlace and Flea Market, operating since 1939 across three acres indoors and twelve outdoors; Hartville Kitchen, open since 1966; and Hartville Hardware, 305,000 square feet on a 200-acre campus and the largest independent home center in the country as of 2012. Together they draw more than three million visitors a year to a village of about 3,300, per the Hartville Local Community Development organization. Quail Hollow Park, over 700 acres managed by Stark Parks, is also in Hartville, on Congress Lake Avenue NE.

Can you get lake access on Congress Lake in Hartville?

Only by owning shoreline property or holding a Congress Lake Club membership, which is by invitation. The 200-acre spring-fed lake is privately owned by the homeowners on it and by the club, founded in 1896. An address on Congress Lake Avenue does not convey lake rights. Confirm what a specific parcel includes before pricing an offer around water access.

How fast do homes sell in Hartville, Ohio?

Half of Hartville homes went under contract within 18 days over the twelve months ending July 2026, and the median home sold for exactly its asking price, per Stark County MLS data. The 33.5-day average runs higher because three listings sat 166, 167 and 263 days. With roughly 15 active listings and about 1.5 months of inventory, a clean offer at asking beats a low one that needs a counter.