SawyerwoodOH
The town was settled in 1916 and has 1,241 residents today.
Is Sawyerwood a good place to live?
Sawyerwood’s best subject grade is a B+ for cost of living; its weakest is a C− for health. Sawyerwood’s age of the median resident is 50.4 years, above both the Ohio town median (41.7 years) and the median of U.S. towns (40.5 years). On history, just 106 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse. Sawyerwood has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Sawyerwood stand out
Where Sawyerwood beats most towns.
1,241 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Sawyerwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Sawyerwood is from typical.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and 58 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sawyerwood. Close and well known come first.
Big draw36 mi MuseumRock and Roll Hall of Fame580K visitors a year
Big draw15 mi MuseumPro Football Hall of Fame192K visitors a year
6 mi National ParkCuyahoga Valley National Park3.0M visitors a year
35 mi Stadium & arenaHuntington Bank Field
35 mi Stadium & arenaProgressive Field
35 mi Stadium & arenaRocket ArenaPhoto credits
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pro Football Hall of Fame: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 · Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Unknown, Public domain · Huntington Bank Field: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 · Progressive Field: Jsawczuk, Public domain · Rocket Arena: Cards84664, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Sawyerwood: who provides what
Sawyerwood is unincorporated, so Summit County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Sawyerwood.
Sawyerwood is less healthy than four in five U.S. towns
The share of adults in Sawyerwood who sleep under 7 hours: 39%. CDC measures, 32 in all: Sawyerwood beats Ohio on 1 and trails on 5. Two figures for adults here: 19% smoke cigarettes, 20% report frequent mental distress.
| Sawyerwood | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 26% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Sawyerwood | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.7% | 15.3% |
| More smokers | 18.9% | 15.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very low risk in Sawyerwood, with inland flooding at the top
Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 83% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 64% of Sawyerwood’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 12% to hail.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sawyerwood has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Summer afternoons peak near 83° in July, and January nights bottom out around 20°; snowfall runs to about 47 inches a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most of Sawyerwood’s workers leave town for work
The top destinations are Akron (23%), Springfield Township (4%) and Green (4%). Jobs in Sawyerwood fell by 210 from 2013 to 2023, to 684. The typical journey to work here is 19 minutes. Half the trips to work are shorter than 10 miles.
| Sawyerwood | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $52,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A home in Sawyerwood sells for about $162K at the median
95% of Sawyerwood households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Sawyerwood is conserved land
Count the trails in 1 park or preserve and they come to 0.1 miles. Parks and preserves in Sawyerwood: one, of 15 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Springfield Lake Park | 0.1 mi | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Sawyerwood
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Sawyerwood
About 3 of every 100 Sawyerwood residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
Sawyerwood has shrunk 10% from 2010 to 2020
1,540 counted in 2010 and 1,382 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
About Sawyerwood
CDP in Ohio, United States
Sawyerwood is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in north-central Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, Sawyerwood had a population of 1,382.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
Questions about Sawyerwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sawyerwood, OH expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $134,000, 46% below the Ohio typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.