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Clay Center
Clay Center is in Ottawa County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,645 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Genoa Area Local school district.
What a home in Clay Center pays
$1,645 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $3,291 a year; at $300,000, about $4,936. 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 Clay Center pays 43% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 29.96 | 61% |
| The county | 3.74 | 8% |
| Allen Township and Allen-clay Joint Fire District and Clay Center | 12.12 | 25% |
| The library | 0.56 | 1% |
| The career centre | 2.27 | 5% |
| Others | 0.37 | 1% |
| All | 49.03 | 100% |
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Shares of the 49.03 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Clay Center’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 Clay Center
Too few homes in Clay Center for the Census survey to measure how many of their owners are 65 or older.
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.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Clay Center and Allen-clay Joint Fire District and Allen Township levy
On the same bill, what Clay Center and Allen-clay Joint Fire District and Allen Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Clay Center pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.750 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fire & E.M.S | 4.997 |
| 2025 | Fire & E.M.S | 2.998 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Current expense | 1.060 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.787 |
| 2021 | Cemetery | 0.531 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Genoa Area Local’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.
Clay Center on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Clay Center: 3 on this ballot.
Its school districts
- Genoa Area Local: Renewal property tax, 4.75 mills · Schools
- Genoa Area Local: Renewal property tax, 0.5 mills · Schools
Ottawa County and its boards
- Ottawa County: Renewal property tax, 0.7 mills · Mental health
Matched from who levies on Clay Center’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
Clay Center’s school district
Genoa Area Local
Its school levies cost a home about $987 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 191st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $12,896 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.