Kelleys Island, Ohio.
Typical home $434,257 (+3.2% in a year). Sandusky, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Kelleys Island
Kelleys Island’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Kelleys Island is in Erie County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,306 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,404 +3%
- $420,853$434,257 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,224 +31%
- $332,033$434,257 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.
- Kelleys Island$2,279
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Kelleys Island, OH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kelleys Island, Erie County, Ohio
Kelleys Island is a village of 256 people in Erie County. 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 people in Erie County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kelleys Island is a very small village, home to few enough people that it counts as one of the smallest places in Erie County. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest; precipitation falls as rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Erie County, the largest workplaces include Cedar Point, Firelands Regional Medical Center and Kalahari Resort. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Kelleys Island State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and the easiest place to start. A short drive away on the mainland are Cedar Point, an amusement park that is one of the best known in the country, and Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Erie County 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, 11 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kelleys Island’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Kelleys Island home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kelleys Island$434,257
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kelleys Island7
Zip codes with a Kelleys Island address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kelleys Island — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.