Bellevue, Ohio.
Typical home $187,588 (+2.7% in a year). Norwalk, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bellevue
Bellevue’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bellevue is in Huron County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bellevue City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$557 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,937 +3%
- $182,651$187,588 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,931 +32%
- $141,657$187,588 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.
- Bellevue$985
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bellevue, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio
Bellevue is a city of 8,249 people in Huron County. Half its households earn more than $53,875 a year and half less, against $67,878 across Huron County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bellevue is a small Ohio city in Huron County, with a population on the younger side for a place where many residents are long settled. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs less than many Ohio buyers might expect. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would assume, so budgets here tend to be watched closely. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Bellevue are Tower Automotive, Bellevue City Schools and THE Bellevue Hospital. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs across the county has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Seneca Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. For a longer day out, Cedar Point, the amusement park on the lake, is a longer drive away, as is Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area on Lake Erie's shore. The Huron River is also a longer drive away for time spent by the water.
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- 3,333households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 21,321 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norwalk Wwtp weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bellevue
- Tower AutomotiveChassis, automobile, manufacturing380
- Bellevue City SchoolsSchool district339FTE
- THE Bellevue HospitalGeneral hospital298FTE
- ABC TechnologiesMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing275
- ABC TechnologiesMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing176
- Bunge North AmericaSoybean and other oilseed processing176
- Bellevue Manufacturing PlantManufacturing142
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities118
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,546 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellevue’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 Huron County and the Norwalk, OH metro.
Bellevue home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellevue$187,588
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bellevue listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bellevue25.03%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bellevue31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bellevue13
Zip codes with a Bellevue address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellevue — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.