Medina County · Village
Spencer Village is a village in Medina County, Ohio. The data below comes from public county auditor records. Local editorial notes are added over time.
Editor's note · Medina Homes Guide · 2026-10-01Ranked by recorded sales here, not by who paid us.
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Every dot on this map is a residential lot from the county auditor's record. When a home here is listed on Medina Homes Guide, its price appears on the map as a tag.
Each red circle is one home in the Medina County Auditor’s record: 0 in Spencer Village. Point at a circle for the address, and click it to open that home’s public record. A price tag marks a home listed on Medina Homes Guide.
Dots: Medina County Auditor parcel record. A dot shows where a residential lot is. It does not mean the home is for sale.
Every number here comes straight from the Medina County Auditor, the same records your agent pulls to price a home and a lender checks before they write a loan. We update them every month so you're always looking at current data. These are real sale prices from real Medina County transactions, and you can verify every one of them at the auditor's website. Whether you're buying and trying to figure out if a price actually makes sense, or thinking about selling and want to know what homes like yours have been getting, The Big Five are where that conversation starts.
The median sale price in the stats above combines every property type sold here. For a more accurate number, use the row that matches what you're shopping for. Property types with fewer than 3 sales in the period roll into the combined total and won't appear as a separate row.
By property type · last 12 months
Median price SoldPrice history · residential home sales
Median price SoldNo home sales recorded in Spencer Village in the past year. When something comes available here, it's a genuine opening.
Source: Medina County Auditor transfer records · 2026-10-01.
Numbers come from Medina County public deed records, filed with the county auditor and open to the public. Residential homes only. Includes for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure sales not tracked through an agent, so figures may run slightly different from what an agent's report shows.
Prices reflect conditions at the time of sale. Economic events like interest rate cycles, pandemic-era demand shifts, and changes in local housing supply can cause year-over-year swings that overstate or understate what the underlying market is actually doing. The trend is useful context, not a final word.
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Twelve things most buyers never think to ask until after the offer is signed. Each card is sourced and specific to this neighborhood.
No residential home sales above $10,000 were recorded in Spencer Village in the past 12 months. This is common in very small villages or agricultural areas with few home transactions.
This area sees very few transactions. When a home does come available, buyers tend to pay close attention.
Source: Medina County Auditor — Transfer Records · verified 2026-10-01
Most addresses in Spencer are served by the Black River Local School District.
We don't publish school ratings or commentary — visit the district directly for enrollment, programs, and current performance data.
Source: Black River Local School District · verified 2026-10-01
Water and sewer availability in Spencer varies by location. Some areas connect to municipal water and sewer; others rely on private well water and septic systems. Availability depends on proximity to the service district boundary.
Verify utility connection status for any specific property before you close. A home on well and septic carries different ongoing maintenance obligations than one on public utilities.
Source: Medina County Sanitary Engineering / Medina County Health Department · verified 2026-10-01
Primary road access in Spencer is via SR 162. There is no public transit service in this area.
Confirm your typical commute route and drive time before you commit. Rural roads in Medina County can add significant time in winter weather conditions.
Source: Ohio Department of Transportation TIMS · verified 2026-10-01
Spencer is an Ohio village governed by an elected mayor and village council. Villages provide basic services but typically operate on smaller budgets than cities. Spencer does not levy a municipal income tax beyond Ohio state income tax.
Village government means a more localized structure than a city. Check what services are provided directly versus contracted — trash pickup, snow removal, and code enforcement can vary significantly by village.
Source: Spencer Village Government / Ohio Department of Taxation · verified 2026-10-01
Natural gas lines do not extend throughout Spencer. Most homes are heated with propane, stored in an above-ground tank on the property. Propane prices fluctuate seasonally and must be budgeted separately from your mortgage and taxes.
Ask the seller which fuel the home uses and request the last 12 months of propane bills. Estimates vary widely — ask the seller for actual prior-year bills rather than budgeting from an estimate.
Source: Medina County Auditor — Property Records · verified 2026-10-01
Most of Spencer sits in FEMA Zone X, which carries minimal flood risk. As with any property purchase, pull the FEMA Flood Map for the specific address to confirm the designation before you close.
Flood zone designation affects insurance requirements and can affect mortgage terms. A quick address lookup on the FEMA map costs nothing and takes two minutes.
Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer · verified 2026-10-01
Spencer is served by the Spencer Township Fire Department. The nearest emergency rooms are Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital (approximately 30 minutes northeast) and Wooster Community Hospital (approximately 25 minutes south).
If medical response time is a factor for anyone in your household, factor the drive to the nearest emergency room into your due diligence.
Source: Spencer Township Fire Department / Medina County EMS · verified 2026-10-01
Internet service options vary by address and provider throughout this area. Wired options including cable and fiber are generally available on most residential streets, though coverage and speeds differ by location and provider.
Check the specific property address on the FCC Broadband Map before you close. Provider availability at a neighboring home does not guarantee the same service at the property you are buying.
Source: FCC Broadband Map · verified 2026-10-01
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Local history
Common questions
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The Village of Spencer is run from the municipal building at 109 North Main Street on 330-648-2907, open 7am to 3pm, by a publicly elected six-member council that meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm. The village's audited statements say it provides water and sewer utilities, park operations and police services. The 2025 minutes name Jim Kiousis as mayor, Sheri Ward as fiscal officer, Greg Huber as solicitor and Todd Mosher at the street department, with Steve Ensign as 2025 council president. Council works through Legislative and Planning, Safety, Parks and Buildings, Streets and Sanitation, Finance and Records Retention committees plus a Planning Commission. The village is zoned, the zoning inspector is Rob Lenhart on 330-242-5817, and the zoning ordinance posted on the village's own site is dated December 2010 and was being rewritten through 2025 because, as the solicitor told the planning commission, the current book has no conditional-use language.
Source: The Village of Spencer's own published council minutes for 2024 and 2025, its About, Contact and Zoning pages, and its audited financial statements filed with the Auditor of State of Ohio · checked 2026-10-01
A Spencer Village house is on public water, public sewer and village-contracted trash. The federal Safe Drinking Water Information System lists the Village of Spencer as PWSID OH5201611 with 312 service connections, and its only active source is a consecutive connection buying fully treated surface water from the Rural Lorain County Water Authority, PWSID OH4701803, in LaGrange, Lorain County. Water and sewer are run by an elected Board of Public Affairs with Irene Gehring as president, Brian Massie and Jeff Gauchat as members and Ken Homoki as superintendent, meeting the second Tuesday of each month at 6pm. The village publishes a combined water and sewer rate of $73.04 for the first 2,000 gallons with overage above that, bills issued the 10th and due the 25th, a $25 late fee, and a $200 renter deposit. The sewer plant itself is outside the village: Ohio EPA permit 3PA00018 places the Village of Spencer wastewater treatment works at 11680 Spencer Mill Road out in Spencer Township, discharging to Spencer Creek at an average design flow of 0.09 million gallons a day. Council awarded an exclusive trash franchise by sealed bid to AM Junk Removal and Dumpster Rental, and it ended the recycling bin programme at the park in 2024.
The Village of Spencer's own council minutes record the mayor reporting that, after a meeting with Lorain-Medina Rural Electric about its new headquarters in the village, he was told Columbia Gas had said there was not sufficient gas supply for that building and not enough supply to support even one new home in the village. Columbia Gas of Ohio is the local distribution company, separate from Columbia Gas Transmission, the interstate pipeline company that owns public-utility parcels out on Spencer Township's northern boundary. Natural gas distribution service exists in the village, unlike in much of the township, but the village has been told on the record that the system has no capacity for a new connection. Anyone looking at a vacant lot in Spencer should put that question to Columbia Gas before anything else.
Source: The Village of Spencer's own published council minutes, mayor's report, with Medina County Auditor parcel records for the vacant-lot counts · checked 2026-10-01
The Village of Spencer runs its own police department, which the village's audited financial statements list among its services and fund through a Police Levy Fund supported by property tax revenue. The same audit shows full-time police officers enrolled in the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. The village's own 2025 council minutes show Mike Wright as chief and a small mixed full-time and part-time roster, with George Daher hired part-time in March 2025. Council adopted an ordinance in January 2025 entering a county-wide mutual aid agreement for additional police protection, and the minutes record body cameras obtained from the Medina Police Department, radios from the sheriff's department, radar calibration coordinated with Lodi and Westfield, and a 2017 cruiser in service. Parking is prohibited on Liberty Street between 2am and 5am.
Source: Village of Spencer audited financial statements filed with the Auditor of State of Ohio and the village's own published council minutes for 2024 and 2025 · checked 2026-10-01
J.B. Firestone Park covers about 131.99 acres across three adjoining Village of Spencer parcels on the south and east sides of the village, roughly a fifth of the municipality's 634 acres, all confirmed as Spencer Village under Medina County's 911 boundary file. The village describes walking trails, basketball and tennis courts, a playground, pavilions and ball fields, and its council minutes add a volunteer-built disc golf course started with $3,000 from council and donations raised by Bill Vaughn's frisbee golf association, now listed by UDisc at eighteen holes, plus playground equipment donated by the Spencer Enrichment Committee, batting cages installed by Hot Stove north of the tennis courts, a gazebo, a back pavilion and a community garden approved in 2025 beside the basketball courts. The village has put the park's woods out for sustainable logging bids and hopes to extend the walking trails.
The Village of Spencer's own About page lists, at the four corners of what it calls its one light town, Farmers Savings Bank, Holmes Tire, Spencer Main Street Market and Spencer Restaurant, plus a post office, a funeral home, an antique and thrift shop, three beauty shops, a dairy isle, a saloon and a feed and supply store. The Medina County Auditor confirms Farmers Savings Bank at 111 West Main Street, a postal service parcel at 106 Jackson Street and a run of small commercial parcels along Main Street. Dollar General store 18168 is at 418 East Main Street on a 1.77 acre parcel the auditor values at $1,486,610, and a frozen-custard stand the village minutes call the Spencer Twist changed hands recently. The village says four churches sit one at each entrance to town, Spencer United Methodist, First Baptist, Faith Christian and Solid Rock Baptist, three of which the auditor confirms by name on the ground.
Source: The Village of Spencer's own About page, Medina County Auditor parcel records for the bank, postal, church and commercial parcels, the village's own published council minutes, and Dollar General's own store directory for store 18168 · checked 2026-10-01
Spencer Restaurant is at 107 East Main Street on 330-648-9669, on one of the four corners of the village's single traffic light, and the Village of Spencer names it as one of those four corners on its own About page. Its own site says home style cooking is its specialty, takes carry-out orders by phone, and publishes hours of Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday 7am to 8pm, Friday 7am to 9pm, Sunday 7am to 3pm, closed Monday. The Medina County Auditor records the 0.16 acre commercial parcel at $160,180 of market value, owned by 107 Main Street LLC, last transferred on March 1, 2023 for $150,000.
Source: Spencer Restaurant's own website, the Village of Spencer's own About page, and Medina County Auditor parcel and transfer records for 107 East Main Street · checked 2026-10-01
The Village of Spencer's own council minutes record a calendar run by its Historical Society and Beautification Committee: a Breakfast with the Easter Bunny in March that drew around 120 people in 2024, a dandelion drive starting the first Sunday in April, flower pots around town in May, military memorial banners hung from Memorial Day until Veterans Day, a Fourth of July parade and festival, a September car show, and Breakfast with Santa with the Christmas tree lighting, held December 7 in 2024. In 2025 the Historical Society began a living-histories project recording long-time residents telling their own stories. The village's Events page separately lists Spencer Yard Sales on August 7th and 8th.
Source: The Village of Spencer's own published council minutes for 2024 and 2025 and its own Events page · checked 2026-10-01
Spencer is an incorporated village of 684 people and 317 housing units on 0.99 square miles, sitting inside Spencer Township in the southwest corner of Medina County, and the Census counts the two separately. Its street grid hangs off a single intersection: State Route 162 runs east and west as West and East Main Street, becoming Chatham Road outside the village, and State Route 301 runs north and south as North and South Main Street, becoming Spencer Road outside it. The village's own site calls it a one light town, and the four corners of that light are Farmers Savings Bank, Holmes Tire, Spencer Main Street Market and Spencer Restaurant. A post office called Spencer has been in operation since 1849, and the village was known as Centerville in the nineteenth century, a name that survives on Centerville Street.
Spencer is a four-way railroad junction inside the village line. The Ohio Rail Development Commission describes it as the convergence of four Wheeling and Lake Erie subdivisions, Hartland north, Akron east, Brewster south and Carey west, and on July 20, 2022 it approved a $490,626 grant that satisfied the state match on a federal application. The Federal Railroad Administration's CRISI programme awarded up to $6.9 million toward a project estimated at $9.8 million to reconfigure the connecting tracks. The commission's stated reason is that traffic moving between the lines currently blocks the North Main Street and State Route 301 crossing, and the Medina Gazette reported the grant. The Medina County Auditor records the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company owning 15.93 acres of rail land off East Main Street in the village.
Source: Ohio Rail Development Commission's own announcement of the $490,626 grant to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway for the Spencer interchange, with Medina Gazette coverage and Medina County Auditor parcel records for the rail land · checked 2026-10-01
The Village of Spencer's audited financial statements, filed with the Auditor of State of Ohio, record that under the last will and testament of John B. Firestone dated October 2, 1961 the village was named a beneficiary of a Civic Trust fund, and that subject to approval by an advisory committee and the trustee the village may spend principal and income on any village department, facility or project that will, in the audit's own phrasing, contribute to the mental, moral and physical improvement of the village and its residents. The audit records $300,000 received from the J.B. Firestone Civic Trust in each of 2014 and 2015, booked as Contributions and Donations revenue in the General Fund, with an annual transfer made on the advisory committee's recommendation to subsidise operations. The village's main park carries the same name.
Source: Village of Spencer, Medina County, audit report for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, filed with the Auditor of State of Ohio, notes 6 and 10 · checked 2026-10-01
Fire and ambulance service for both the Village of Spencer and Spencer Township comes from the Spencer Community Fire District, a separate political subdivision with its own board and its own audit filings. The village's own council minutes state that the village does not run the fire department and direct residents with concerns to the fire board. The Medina County Auditor records three adjoining parcels owned by the Board of Township Trustees of the Spencer Community Fire District at Jefferson Street and Lorain Street inside the village, the improved one carrying $208,760 of market value, and all three test as Spencer Village under the county's 911 boundary file. Inside the village there is a public water main and a village storage tank; out in the township, the township's zoning resolution says the fire district maintains dry hydrants on private ponds.
Spencer Main Street Market is at 101 South Main Street on 330-648-2382, on one of the four corners of the village's single traffic light. The Medina County Convention and Visitors Bureau describes it as a small local store with a deli and a full menu. It is the only store selling groceries identified in the Spencer area; no supermarket was identified anywhere in the surrounding township, and the closest full-size grocery is Apples Market in Wellington, Lorain County, about seven miles northwest. The US Census geocoder returns Spencer village for the address and the point tests as Spencer Village under Medina County's 911 jurisdiction boundary file.
Source: Medina County Convention and Visitors Bureau's own listing for Spencer Main Street Market, with the location confirmed through the US Census geocoder and Medina County's 911 jurisdiction boundary file · checked 2026-10-01
Counting every Medina County Auditor parcel inside the Spencer Village polygon of the county's 911 jurisdiction boundary file, the village holds 397 parcels over 590.51 acres, of which 229 carry a residential class code. The median residential lot inside the village is 0.32 acres and the auditor's median market value on those parcels is $107,740, with a range of $33,000 to $254,230, against a median residential lot of 2.92 acres out in Spencer Township. The auditor's transfer history shows 27 distinct residential transactions of $50,000 or more inside the village between January 2023 and July 2025, with a median of $170,000 and a range of $55,800 to $369,000 on a median lot of 0.25 acres. Liberty Street, Billman Avenue, Rainbow Street, Forest Avenue and Stuart Drive carry most of the residential grid alongside North and South Main Street.
Source: Medina County Auditor parcel and transfer records placed by point-in-polygon against the Medina County 911 jurisdiction boundary file, with US Census Bureau 2020 land area · checked 2026-10-01
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