Bettsville, Ohio.
Typical home $127,974 (+2.7% in a year). Tiffin, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Bettsville
Bettsville’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Bettsville is in Seneca County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Old Fort Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$359 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,404 +3%
- $124,571$127,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,732 +20%
- $106,242$127,974 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.
- Bettsville$672
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Bettsville, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bettsville, Seneca County, Ohio
Bettsville is a village of 595 people in Seneca County. Half its households earn more than $65,417 a year and half less, against $66,025 across Seneca County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bettsville is a small village in Seneca County, Ohio, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, and summers are warm in July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Across Seneca County, the largest workplaces include Tiffin University, Tiffin City Schools and National Machinery, though the county has recently lost some jobs even as unemployment has eased from a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Van Buren Lake is a reservoir and Van Buren State Park a protected area, both a longer drive away. Sherwood Anderson Park is also a longer drive away. Seneca Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive too, and so is the Portage River.
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- 231households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 18,700 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fremont Ag Station weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca County
- Tiffin UniversityUniversity or college457
- Tiffin City SchoolsSchool district427FTE
- National MachineryMachine tools, metal forming, manufacturing380
- Toledo Molding & Die Tiffin PlantOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters341
- Webster Industries - TiffinBuckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing288
- RoppeSheeting, rubber, manufacturing287
- Heidelberg UniversityUniversity or college271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,072 people in all across the county; Bettsville has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bettsville’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 Seneca County and the Tiffin, OH metro.
Bettsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bettsville$127,974
- 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 Bettsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bettsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.