Guides & explainers
Plain-English writing on Ohio property tax — what moves a bill, what your county can and cannot do about it, and what you can.
Ohio counties are sending reappraisal notices with rises nobody expected, and the county says taxes will only go up 1.5-2%. Both are true. Here is the law that makes them true, and how to work out where your own bill lands.
Connecticut is up 19.6% since July 2023. The District of Columbia is down 7.5%. The country as a whole managed 4.7%, which describes almost nobody. Here is what the last three years actually did, and the two things everyone gets wrong about them.
Ohio homes gained 13.5% in three years — but Shelby County gained 24.6% and Wayne County lost 4.1%. And the value your county taxes you on runs on a different clock: it sits still for two years, then jumps the year your county revalues. That gap is where appeals are won.
Every figure on this site comes from public records — Ohio’s certified tax rates, ballot issues, school reports and court caseloads, county auditors, Zillow Research and the U.S. Census. Check your own bill in about a minute.