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- Your billWhat is charged, where it goes, and why it went up.
- Home valuesWhat homes are worth, what they are taxed on, and who pays.
- Levies & the ballotEvery issue, what it would cost, and how earlier votes went.
- SchoolsRatings, spending, budgets, and what the leaders are paid.
- Unpaid & foreclosuresWhat goes unpaid, and the court cases, county by county.
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1Your bill
What is charged here, and who gets it
Ohio’s homes and farms are charged 172% more property tax than in 2000. Prices are up 87%. They were charged $17.3 billion for 2025, up from $6.4 billion — 144% more per home, as Ohio has 12% more homes. If it had risen only with inflation, it would be $11.9 billion. Of every $100, $60 goes to schools.
Property tax on homes and farms, and the 2000 tax plus inflation
Billions of dollars a year, each tax year, before the state’s credits: the state’s own figures to 2023, this site’s arithmetic after. Year by year, and how it is worked out, further down.
- Property tax charged$17.3B
- 2000 tax + inflation$11.9B
Where every $100 goes
Your property tax is not one tax. It is a stack of separate levies — each one voted on, or set by law — collected together on a single bill. Here is where every $100 of a typical Ohio homeowner's 2025 bill went.
- Schools $59.85
- County services $16.33
- Fire, police, roads & local services $15.47
- Career-technical schools $2.76
- Libraries $2.58
- Parks $1.46
- Community college $1.03
- Other services $0.52
Schools are the biggest piece almost everywhere, and it isn't close. Add the career-technical school and the community college — both of which say “school” on your bill — and education comes to $63.64 of every $100. You will hear 65% quoted in the argument going on right now: on a homeowner's bill schools are 59.9% on their own, and 63.6% counting all of education.
It is not the same where you live
Schools take 47.8% of a bill in Ashtabula County and 69.4% in Mercer. Only about 25% of Ohio homeowners, measured by what their property is worth, live somewhere schools take 65% or more.
- under 55% 14 counties
- 55 to 60% 30 counties
- 60 to 65% 24 counties
- 65% and over 20 counties
Hover or tap a county for its own figure and a link to its page — or choose it from the list.
How this is worked out
Every levy on every bill in the 4,288 taxing districts we hold both rates and values for, from the state's certified tax tables, weighted by each district's own taxable value rather than averaged — so a small district doesn't count the same as Cuyahoga. Across the middle of Ohio's districts schools take between 49% and 68%. These are Class I rates, meaning residential and agricultural: this is a homeowner's bill, not every property-tax dollar in Ohio. Business property is rated separately and we do not hold those rates. The figures are after the 10% and 2.5% credits, so this is what an owner actually pays.
- Billed
- $15.6B
- Counties
- 88
- Districts
- 611
homes and farms, a year
each with its own page
school districts
Why this is smaller than the number you may have seen
Ohio’s property tax is usually quoted whole, at around $24 billion a year. The figure on this page is $15.6 billion, and both are right: they count different things. Two steps separate them, and both come from the state’s own numbers.
| What is being counted | A year |
|---|---|
| Homes and farms, after the state’s credits | $15.6B |
| … and business, industrial and utility property | $22.1B |
| … and the credits the state pays for you | $24.1B |
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Where those two steps come from
Business property. This site holds certified rates for homes and farms and none for anything else, so nothing on it ever claims to be everyone’s bill. But the state’s District Profile Report publishes both rates for every school district, and applying each to its own share of the district’s value turns $8.90 billion of school tax on homes and farms into $12.64 billion on everything — a multiplier of 1.42. The report’s own all-property column, arrived at another way, says $13.19 billion.
The credits. The 10% and 2.5% rollbacks and the homestead exemption are paid by the state to the school, township or county, on your behalf. They are collected without ever appearing on your payment. Schools receive $1.21 billion of them and are 60% of the bill, so everyone else’s together is about $2.0 billion.
Fiscal 2025. The first line is the measured one — certified taxable value times certified rate, district by district, which reconciles to the state’s own county totals within about one percent. The two below it are built from the state’s school figures and scaled, so treat them as this site’s arithmetic rather than as a published total. And charged is not collected: what goes unpaid is billions a year on its own.
Homes and farms since 2000, year by year
The value it is charged on went from $127 billion to $331 billion, rising fastest in the years counties reset their values.
Taxable value of homes and farms
Billions of dollars, each tax year. Taxable value is 35% of what the county appraises.
- Taxable value$331B
| Year | Value | Tax | 2000 tax + inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $127B | $6.4B | $6.4B |
| 2005 | $170B | $9.0B | $7.2B |
| 2010 | $184B | $10.9B | $8.1B |
| 2015 | $184B | $11.8B | $8.8B |
| 2020 | $220B | $13.7B | $9.6B |
| 2025 | $331B | $17.3B* | $11.9B |
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* Not yet published by the state: this site’s arithmetic, explained below.
Per home, that is $1,329 in 2000 and $3,242 for 2025, up 144%. Ohio has 12% more homes than in 2000, counted by the Census Bureau in 2000 and 2024, its newest count.
Of the $17.3 billion charged for 2025, the state paid about $1.7 billion through its rollback credits, leaving about $15.6 billion for owners before the homestead exemption and the new inflation cap credit (House Bill 186), which takes about $0.4 billion more off in its first year. Levies passed since 2013 get no rollback credits, so owners are paying a growing share themselves: the levies that still get them were 88% of the tax in 2019 and 80% in 2025.
The long view, from the state’s own tables
Since 1985 the taxable value of Ohio’s homes is 6.5 times what it was, farms’ 4.2 times, and the tax on both 7.7 times; prices are 3.0 times.
| Year | Homes | Farms | Tax on both |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $306B | $24.9B | $17.3B* |
| 2024 | $295B | $23.1B | $16.7B* |
| 2020 | $204B | $16.3B | $13.7B |
| 2015 | $164B | $19.2B | $11.8B |
| 2010 | $173B | $11.3B | $10.9B |
| 2005 | $161B | $8.8B | $9.0B |
| 2000 | $119B | $8.0B | $6.4B |
| 1995 | $83B | $6.3B | $4.6B |
| 1990 | $62B | $5.1B | $3.2B |
| 1985 | $47B | $5.9B | $2.2B |
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Taxable value is 35% of what the county appraises. Homes and farms are the Department of Taxation’s own figures: its table TS-3 before 1998 and its PD-31 workbooks from then on, which agree to the million in every year both cover but 1999, where TS-3 puts homes at $125.9 billion against PD-31’s $110.9 billion, above even 2000’s $119.3 billion. This page uses PD-31. Tax is table TS-1; * this site’s arithmetic, as above. Prices are CPI-U annual averages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Homes and farmland only (Class I). Business and utility property is taxed separately. Tax charged is after House Bill 920’s reduction and before the state’s rollback credits, the homestead exemption and the inflation cap credit, in every year alike. A year is a tax year: 2025’s bills are paid in 2026. Inflation is U.S. consumer prices (CPI-U, the Bureau of Labor Statistics), averaged over each year; October 2025 was never published, so 2025 averages the other eleven months. Sources: the Department of Taxation’s tables TS-1 and PD-23, which agree to the dollar, for every year to 2023; for 2024–2025, which the state has not yet published, the certified tax rates times each taxing district’s value — the same arithmetic comes within 0.22% of the state’s own figure in every year both exist. Taxable value is its table PD-31. Homes are the Census Bureau’s: the 2000 census and the 2024 American Community Survey.
Homeowners 65 and over across Ohio
33% of the homes their owners live in, across Ohio, belong to someone 65 or older — about 1,100,000 homes.
Owners who are 65 or older, or disabled, can claim Ohio’s homestead exemption, which takes part of a home’s value off the bill; most must have an income under the state’s limit. From the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates (table B25007, owner-occupied homes by the age of the householder). A survey, so every figure has a margin of error.
Why did my bill go up? → How Ohio compares → Check your property taxes →
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
- On the November 3 ballot
- 990
- Asking for new money
- 302
- From school districts
- 131
local tax issues, in 88 counties
a new tax, an increase or a bond
68 of them asking for new money
What's on my ballot? → What would a levy cost me? →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
- Forecast running short
- 190 of 610
- Counting a new levy
- 33
districts by FY2030, on their own budgets
districts, in the budget they filed with the state
How are schools funded? → Where does school money go? → Which districts score highest? → What do superintendents earn? → School budgets →
5Unpaid & foreclosures
What goes unpaid, and cases filed in court
- Owed and unpaid
- $2.8B
- Foreclosure cases, 2025
- 44.8
- Sheriff sales, September 2026
- 1,014
at the end of tax year 2024, every county together
for every 10,000 homes, 23% below 2019
homes set for sale; on 21 Oct 2026, 665 were still to be sold
Foreclosure cases filed each year
Every kind of foreclosure, 2015 to 2025, and 2026 so far: January to August, with its pace for the whole year in outline.
The Supreme Court of Ohio’s count of cases filed in the 88 counties’ courts: homes, businesses, farms and land together, and tax foreclosures, where a county treasurer sues over unpaid property tax, among them. A filing is a case opened, not a property lost. Filings halved in 2020 and 2021, when foreclosures on federally backed mortgages were paused.
Property tax owed and unpaid
All 88 counties at the end of each tax year, 2015 to 2024, in 2024 dollars.
A running balance: what is still unpaid at the end of a tax year carries forward until it is paid, so this is not one year’s missed bills. Almost all of the rise since 2019 is in the 18 counties the Rover pipeline crosses: Ohio first assessed the pipeline for tax year 2019, and its owner has paid only on the value it argues for. Those counties’ unpaid balance went from $170 million to $770 million; the other 70 counties’ held at about $2.0 billion. Source: county auditors’ abstracts (form DTE 4259). Every county, and the pipeline dispute →
Homes set for sheriff’s sale, by county
For every 10,000 homes, October 2025 to September 2026. Across Ohio, 10,550 homes: 19.9 for every 10,000.
- under 5 6 counties
- 5 to 10 21 counties
- 10 to 15 31 counties
- 15 or more 30 counties
A county low on the map may sell some foreclosures off its sheriff’s calendar: in person, through a land bank or a private selling officer.
Hover or tap a county for its figure and a link to it.
What goes unpaid? → How many homes go to sheriff's sale? → Foreclosure cases, county by county →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
- New values this year
- 41 of 88
- The cycle
- 3 years
counties setting 2026 values
a full reappraisal, then an update, in turn
The 88 counties
Every county has a page with these same chapters, about that county, and then its school districts.
- Adams
- Allen
- Ashland
- Ashtabula
- Athens
- Auglaize
- Belmont
- Brown
- Butler
- Carroll
- Champaign
- Clark
- Clermont
- Clinton
- Columbiana
- Coshocton
- Crawford
- Cuyahoga
- Darke
- Defiance
- Delaware
- Erie
- Fairfield
- Fayette
- Franklin
- Fulton
- Gallia
- Geauga
- Greene
- Guernsey
- Hamilton
- Hancock
- Hardin
- Harrison
- Henry
- Highland
- Hocking
- Holmes
- Huron
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Knox
- Lake
- Lawrence
- Licking
- Logan
- Lorain
- Lucas
- Madison
- Mahoning
- Marion
- Medina
- Meigs
- Mercer
- Miami
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- Morrow
- Muskingum
- Noble
- Ottawa
- Paulding
- Perry
- Pickaway
- Pike
- Portage
- Preble
- Putnam
- Richland
- Ross
- Sandusky
- Scioto
- Seneca
- Shelby
- Stark
- Summit
- Trumbull
- Tuscarawas
- Union
- Van Wert
- Vinton
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- Williams
- Wood
- Wyandot
Every question the site answers
Your bill
- Check your property taxes Your own district's numbers, in about a minute
- What would a levy cost me? Your school district's levies, and what one on the ballot would add
- What's on my ballot? Every local tax issue, county by county, and what each would cost
- Why did my bill go up? The plain-English guide, and how to challenge a value
- Is it my county's turn? All 88 counties on a map, and the year of your next one
- What goes unpaid? The full series, county by county, back to 1996
- How many homes go to sheriff's sale? Every county sheriff's sales, month by month
- How Ohio compares Ohio's typical bill against the other 49 states
Schools
- How are schools funded? Where the state's money comes from, and what the lottery covers
- Where does school money go? What goes to teaching, and how many people a district pays
- Which districts score highest? State test scores and Progress: all 607 districts and 88 counties
- What do superintendents earn? Superintendent and treasurer pay in every district, against districts of its size
- School budgets Each district's own forecast: its cash, new levies, and when it runs short
From the blog
- Your value rose 39%. Your bill will not. 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.
- Three years of house prices, state by state 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.
- Spotlight on Ohio: what 88 counties did 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.
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