Medina County, Ohio Eviction Risk: Very Low

Medina County, Ohio scores 2.6/10, placing it in the Low risk tier for landlords and investors. That county-wide average reflects a market where renter share sits at 28.6% and average rent runs $1,108 per month, conditions that tend to keep vacancy pressure manageable and lease-up relatively straightforward. Ranked 44th of 88 Ohio counties, Medina eviction risk sits in the middle third of the state: 43 counties carry higher risk scores, and 44 are more landlord-friendly. For an operator evaluating Ohio submarkets, that positioning signals a workable environment rather than either a standout haven or a warning zone.

The intra-county spread, from a low of 2.4 to a high of 4/10, is the more telling detail. A full 1.6-point gap separates the county's calmest markets from its most pressured ones, which means underwriting on the county average alone will miss the real picture. Choosing a specific city inside Medina County matters considerably more than the headline number suggests.

The cities inside Medina County

Brunswick is the county's largest city at 35,246 residents and also its highest-risk market at 4/10. That combination, high population and elevated score, means more tenant volume and more eviction exposure. Medina city follows at 2.6/10 with a population of 25,950. Both cities sit above the county average, and landlords operating there should budget for a slightly longer resolution timeline and higher turnover friction than the county figure implies. Lodi scores 2.6/10, while Wadsworth, the third-largest city at 24,492 residents, comes in at 3.5/10, still above mid-range but meaningfully below Brunswick and Medina city.

On the lower end, Westfield Center and Valley City both score 2.3/10, and Sharon Center is the county's lowest-risk market at 2.1/10. Seville comes in at 2.4/10, right at the midpoint between the county's extremes. Risk is genuinely hyper-local here: a landlord in Sharon Center operates in a materially different environment than one in Brunswick, even though both are inside the same county.

State-level laws that apply here

Every property in Medina County falls under Ohio's landlord-tenant framework, primarily ORC § 5321 (Landlords and Tenants). For nonpayment of rent or a material lease violation, the notice period is 3 days under ORC § 1923.04, one of the shorter cure windows among major states and a genuine procedural advantage for landlords. Month-to-month holdover tenancies require 30 days notice under ORC § 5321.17; a fixed-term lease that simply expires requires no advance notice to terminate under ORC § 1923.02. Ohio does not require just cause for non-renewal, and the state preempts any local rent control ordinances, so no Medina County municipality can impose rent caps. Reviewing the full Ohio eviction process before your first filing is worth the time: uncontested cases run 21 to 45 days and contested cases can stretch 45 to 120 days.

Court filing fees run $160 to $250, sheriff lockout fees add $50 to $175, and attorney fees range from $500 to $3,000 depending on complexity. Those figures are fixed by Ohio state rules regardless of which Medina County court you file in. Landlords planning for holding costs should also account for Ohio eviction costs in their deal underwriting, particularly on contested matters where the timeline and fee exposure are highest. Ohio requires 24 hours advance notice before landlord entry under ORC § 5321, and retaliation protections for tenants are codified at ORC § 5321.02.

With a poverty rate of 7.3% and a renter share of 28.6%, Medina County's tenant base is relatively stable, but the city-level scores above show that stability is not uniform across all 11 cities in the grid.