Bay View, Ohio.
Typical home $179,014 (-3.6% in a year). Sandusky, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bay View
Bay View’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bay View is in Erie County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Margaretta Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,719 -4%
- $185,733$179,014 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,366 +22%
- $146,648$179,014 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Bay View$940
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bay View, OH fell 3.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bay View, Erie County, Ohio
Bay View is a village of 608 people in Erie County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Erie County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bay View is a very small village in Erie County, Ohio, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents of Bay View work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Erie County, the largest workplaces include Cedar Point, Firelands Regional Medical Center and Ventra Sandusky. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Cedar Point, an amusement park, is a short drive away, and so are its best-known rides, including Millennium Force and Maverick. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Erie County had 36,374 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Erie County
- Cedar Fair L.P./Magnum6,500
- Firelands Regional Medical Center2,069
- Ventra (was ACH)1,120
- Kalahari Resort996
- Erie County935
- Ohio Veterans Home699
- Sandusky City School District577
- Meijer Department Store475
From Erie County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Erie County Economic Development Corporation Bureau of Labor Statistics”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bay View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Erie County and the Sandusky, OH metro.
Bay View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bay View$179,014
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Bay View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bay View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.