Amherst, Lorain County

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Mailing lists for Amherst

Owners in Amherst to mail, counted from the county's records today. The price is the whole list; you see the exact count and price again before you pay, and the file downloads when you pay.

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Home sales by month

169 home sales in Amherst from October 2025 to September 2026, at a median price of $287,000.

Source: Lorain County Auditor, sales it marks as real sales (not family transfers or estates), counted once per deed, by the month of the sale. Data as of October 22, 2026.

Property tax rates

Most homes in Amherst (4,772 of 4,943) are in taxing district 70, Amherst City/Amherst EVSD. Its effective rate on homes is 47.20 mills, and the state estimates the yearly tax on a $100,000 owner-occupied home there at $1,472.

A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed value, and Ohio assesses a home at 35% of its appraised value. The effective rate is the voted rate after the state's reduction factors. The $100,000 figure is the state's own estimate for an owner-occupied home, after the owner-occupied credits.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, 2025 aggregate property tax rates by taxing district (tax year 2025, paid in 2026), published March 25, 2026. District for each parcel: Lorain County Auditor, October 22, 2026.

Schools

Public schools inside the city line

• Amherst Junior High Schoolgrades 6 to 8, 859 students, Amherst Exempted Village districtOhio report card: 4.5 stars
• Marion L Steele High Schoolgrades 9 to 12, 1,014 students, Amherst Exempted Village districtOhio report card: 4.5 stars
• Powers Elementary Schoolgrades PK to 3, 1,104 students, Amherst Exempted Village districtOhio report card: 3.5 stars
• Walter G. Nord Middle Schoolgrades 4 to 5, 556 students, Amherst Exempted Village districtOhio report card: 4.5 stars

Private schools

• St. Joseph Elementary Schoolgrades PK to 8, 181 students, Roman Catholic

Schools and students: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, fall 2024 count, and Private School Universe Survey, 2023-24. Ratings: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2025-26 School Report Cards, the state's own overall star rating for each school. A school is listed here when its address sits inside the boundary.

Library

• Amherst Public Library221 Spring St.Open about 60 hours a week

The Amherst Public Library had 64,532 visits and lent 193,029 books, movies and e-books in 2024, with 11,189 card holders.

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024 (released June 2026). Figures are for the whole library system.

Crime reported to the FBI

Reported to the FBI by the Amherst Police Department, 2025: 8 violent crimes and 121 property crimes, for about 13,129 people. That is 0.61 violent and 9.22 property crimes per 1,000 people.

Most common offenses in the Amherst Police Department's 2025 incident reports: thefts 110, assault offenses 41, fraud offenses 30.

Reporting varies from agency to agency and year to year, and these numbers are as reported to the FBI. A low count can mean an agency reported only part of the year; a year with no reports is left blank, never counted as zero. Violent crime means murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime means burglary, theft and vehicle theft. Paper Trail Ohio adds no score and does not compare places.

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Return A and NIBRS files for data years 2020 to 2025 (files dated August 14, 2026), Crime Data Explorer.

Official offices

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