Lakeside, Ohio.
. Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Lakeside
Lakeside is in Ottawa County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
Living in Lakeside, Ottawa County, Ohio
Lakeside, in Ottawa County, had 668 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $92,500 a year and half less, against $76,101 across Ottawa County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakeside is a small community in Ottawa County, Ohio, and its residents are much older than in most American towns. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest. Over a year the town gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Ottawa County, the largest workplaces include the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, H B Magruder Memorial Hospital and Genoa Area Local Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Cedar Point, a large amusement park, is a short drive away, and so is Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area that honors a famous episode of the War of 1812. Millennium Force, one of the park's best known roller coasters, is also a short drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
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 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, 7 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 across the county; Lakeside has two of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Lakeside’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 Ottawa County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Lakeside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lakeside listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Lakeside24.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lakeside55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lakeside12
Zip codes with a Lakeside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.