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Ottawa Hills
Ottawa Hills is in Lucas County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $3,112 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Ottawa Hills Local school district.
What a home in Ottawa Hills pays
$3,112 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $6,223 a year; at $300,000, about $9,335. 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 Lucas County, the same home pays $2,024 on average, so a home in Ottawa Hills pays 54% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 64.34 | 72% |
| The county | 15.36 | 17% |
| Ottawa Hills | 6.10 | 7% |
| The library | 2.94 | 3% |
| Others | 0.16 | 0% |
| All | 88.90 | 100% |
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Shares of the 88.90 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Ottawa Hills’ 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 Ottawa Hills
36% of the homes their owners live in, in Ottawa Hills, belong to someone 65 or older — about 560 homes, give or take 8 points.
Lucas County: 34% · 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 Ottawa Hills are worth
$398,178 Zillow’s typical home value, +1.3% 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: Lucas County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Ottawa Hills →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Ottawa Hills’ own levies
On the same bill, what Ottawa Hills charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Road And Bridge | 2.517 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 2.275 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.787 |
| Never | Fireman'S Fund Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.175 |
| Never | Police Pension Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.175 |
| Never | Fireman'S Fund Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.087 |
| Never | Police Pension 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: Ottawa Hills Local’s levies, every levy in Lucas County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Ottawa Hills on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Ottawa Hills: 3 on this ballot.
Its school districts
- Sylvania Schools: Renewal and decrease combination, 3.2 mills and 1% · Schools · part of Ottawa Hills only
- Toledo City: New property tax, 6.9 mills · Schools · part of Ottawa Hills only
Lucas County and its boards
Matched from who levies on Ottawa Hills’ 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 Lucas County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Ottawa Hills’ school district
Ottawa Hills Local
Its school levies cost a home about $2,252 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 11th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,909 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: Lucas County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Lucas 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.