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Martins Ferry
Martins Ferry is in Belmont County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,412 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Martins Ferry City school district.
What a home in Martins Ferry pays
$1,412 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,824 a year; at $300,000, about $4,236. 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 Belmont County, the same home pays $1,195 on average, so a home in Martins Ferry pays 18% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 21.16 | 51% |
| The county | 7.20 | 17% |
| Martins Ferry and Pease Township | 9.96 | 24% |
| The library | 0.62 | 1% |
| The career centre | 1.27 | 3% |
| Others | 1.38 | 3% |
| All | 41.59 | 100% |
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Shares of the 41.59 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Martins Ferry’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 Martins Ferry
36% of the homes their owners live in, in Martins Ferry, belong to someone 65 or older — about 560 homes, give or take 7 points.
Belmont County: 36% · 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.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Martins Ferry are worth
$94,699 Zillow’s typical home value, +3.0% in a year
What a home is taxed on is the county’s value for it, which moves when the county resets values, not every month: Belmont County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Martins Ferry →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Martins Ferry and Pease Township levy
On the same bill, what Martins Ferry and Pease Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Martins Ferry pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Police | 3.288 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 2.450 |
| 2019 | E.M.S | 2.131 |
| 2011 | Fire Truck | 0.520 |
| 1999 | Fire | 0.383 |
| 1992 | Fire | 0.356 |
| 1982 | Fire | 0.320 |
| Never | Police Pension Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.263 |
| 1976 or earlier | Fire | 0.079 |
| 1976 or earlier | Police | 0.079 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.087 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Martins Ferry City’s levies, every levy in Belmont County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Martins Ferry on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Martins Ferry: 3 on this ballot.
Its school districts
Belmont County and its boards
- Belmont County: Renewal and decrease property tax, 0.75 mills · Seniors
- Belmont County: Renewal property tax, 0.75 mills · 911
Matched from who levies on Martins Ferry’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 Belmont County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Martins Ferry’s school district
Martins Ferry City
Its school levies cost a home about $700 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 415th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,694 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: Belmont County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Belmont 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.