Graytown, Ohio.
Typical home $263,641 (+1.7% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Graytown
Graytown is in Ottawa County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$728 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,388 +2%
- $259,252$263,641 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,131 +18%
- $222,509$263,641 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.
- Graytown$1,384
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Graytown, OH rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Graytown, Ottawa County, Ohio
The Census does not count Graytown on its own, so the figures here are Ottawa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,101 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Ottawa County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ottawa County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Graytown sits in Ottawa County in northwestern Ohio, near the southern shore of Lake Erie. Winters here are colder than most of the country, with the coldest weather in January, while July brings the warmest days, and the area gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year. Across Ottawa County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older on the whole than most of the country.
Work. Across Ottawa County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, with restaurants, hotels, entertainment and shops also providing a good share of jobs. Jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national share, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. The Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge and the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area are both protected natural areas a short drive away, good places for a quiet walk among the marshes. For a museum visit, the Toledo Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 18,504households
- 50.6median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Ottawa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ottawa County had 14,252 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Metcalf Field weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ottawa County
- Materion - ElmoreStrip, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants702
- Davis-Besse Nuclear Power PlantElectric power generation, nuclear445
- H B Magruder Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital323FTE
- Genoa Area Local SchoolsSchool district305FTE
- USGFiberock, ready mixjoint treatment and joint tape289
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters253
- Woodmore Local SchoolsSchool district234FTE
- Benton Carroll Salem Local SchoolsSchool district205FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,187 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 across Ottawa County, 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 Ottawa County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Graytown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Graytown$263,641
- 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 Graytown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Graytown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.