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Bay Township
Bay Township is in Ottawa County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $996 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Port Clinton City school district.
What a home in Bay Township pays
$996 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $1,991 a year; at $300,000, about $2,987. That is the whole property tax bill on a home its owner lives in, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits, before the homestead exemption.
Across Ottawa County, the same home pays $1,148 on average, so a home in Bay Township pays 13% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 20.78 | 66% |
| The county | 3.74 | 12% |
| Bay Township | 4.48 | 14% |
| The library | 0.59 | 2% |
| The career centre | 1.40 | 4% |
| Others | 0.37 | 1% |
| All | 31.36 | 100% |
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Shares of the 31.36 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Bay Township’s homes; a street on another bill can pay a little more or less. A home’s value is the county’s value for it, not a sale price. Check your own bill.
Homeowners 65 and over in Bay Township
35% of the homes their owners live in, in Bay Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 180 homes, give or take 8 points.
Ottawa County: 39% · Ohio: 33%
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.
The Census counts a township as a whole, so its figure can take in a village inside it, whose homes have a page of their own.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Bay Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Bay Township charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.239 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.695 |
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.646 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.529 |
| Never | Fire Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.497 |
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.492 |
| Never | Fire Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.378 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Port Clinton City’s levies, every levy in Ottawa County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Bay Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Bay Township: 1 on this ballot.
Ottawa County and its boards
- Ottawa County: Renewal property tax, 0.7 mills · Mental health
Matched from who levies on Bay Township’s tax bills, in the state’s levy file, to who asks on the Secretary of State’s list. Which issues reach a particular home depends on its own bill. Every tax issue on the ballot in Ottawa County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Bay Township’s school district
Port Clinton City
Its school levies cost a home about $634 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 287th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $21,993 per student to run its schools.
The state’s own figures: the Department of Taxation’s certified tax rates, the School Report Card and the District Profile Report. Test scores follow family income closely; Progress follows it much less.
5Unpaid & foreclosures
What goes unpaid, and cases filed in court
Unpaid property tax and foreclosure cases are counted by county: Ottawa County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Ottawa County resets values next →
This is an estimate built from public records — not tax, legal or financial advice, and not an appraisal. Only your county’s own statement is authoritative about your bill. If you’re thinking of challenging your value, confirm the details with your county’s Board of Revision or a property-tax professional. The full terms.