From Titus Street’s township to a 1971 city
Streetsboro is named for Titus Street of Connecticut, who bought the township land in 1798. For most of its history it was farmland. Voters incorporated the whole remaining township, 24.33 square miles, as a village in 1968, and it became a city in 1971 once the 1970 Census made it official.
The growth came after that, driven by manufacturing, distribution and new subdivisions. The 2020 Census counted 17,260 people. The Census ACS now puts Streetsboro’s median build year at 1991, and only about 3% of its homes date from 1939 or earlier. That makes it one of the newest housing stocks in Portage County, next to Aurora.
Turnpike Exit 187 and the roads that built the city
Streetsboro grew around its highway access. Ohio Turnpike Exit 187, the old Exit 13, connects to I-480 west and State Route 14, and it was at first the only Turnpike interchange in Portage County. State Routes 303, 43 and 14 run through the city as well.
For sellers, that location cuts two ways:
- A move-in-ready house close to the interchanges has a wide pool of retail buyers, which is when listing with an agent usually nets more.
- Houses on busy stretches, or older homes from before the growth years, have a smaller pool of buyers.
Condos, apartments and manufactured homes
Only about 55% of Streetsboro homes are single-family detached, so a large share are condos, attached units, apartments or mobile homes. The ACS puts mobile homes at about 8% of the city’s housing.
Several large manufactured home communities are in the city. Camelot Village on Frost Road lists 580 sites and was built in 1973. Lakeside Terrace on Sandpiper Drive lists 219 sites and dates from 2002.
Selling a home in a park is different from selling a house on its own lot:
- Title: A manufactured home usually has a title like a vehicle. If yours is missing, see replacing a lost mobile home title.
- Lot rent: Back lot rent can follow the home, so bring the lease and your balance.
- Park rules: Ask the park office what it requires before a home changes hands.
Our mobile home page covers the steps in more detail.
When a cash offer makes sense here, and when it doesn’t
A cash sale tends to fit a Streetsboro house in a handful of cases:
- It’s a condo or house that needs a roof, furnace or flooring you don’t want to pay for.
- It’s an estate, and the heirs live out of state.
- You’ve been transferred or bought elsewhere, and two payments can’t run for months. Our relocation page covers that timing.
- It’s a rental with tenants who aren’t leaving soon.
If your house was built in the 1990s or later and has been kept up, an agent will often get you more, even after commission. We’ll tell you that at the walkthrough instead of pushing an offer.
Students here mainly attend the Streetsboro City School District, which buyers ask about.
Selling from Streetsboro to an Akron buyer
Our office is on East Turkeyfoot Lake Road in Akron, and Bob Donahue drives up for the walkthrough, which runs 15 to 20 minutes. You get a written offer that shows the repair costs we counted. Closing happens at a local title company, in as little as 7 days or on the date you pick. The county-level details, such as the conveyance fee and the probate court in Ravenna, are on our Portage County page. To get a number, tell us about the Streetsboro property.