Marblehead, Ohio.
Typical home $453,253 (+0.6% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Marblehead
Marblehead’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Marblehead is in Ottawa County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Danbury Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,315 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,758 +1%
- $450,496$453,253 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,375 +20%
- $376,878$453,253 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.
- Marblehead$2,379
- 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 Marblehead, OH rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marblehead, Ottawa County, Ohio
Marblehead is a village of 865 people in Ottawa County. Half its households earn more than $96,250 a year and half less, against $76,101 across Ottawa County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marblehead is a small village on the Lake Erie shore, a quiet place where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers pleasantly warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Ottawa County, some of the largest workplaces are 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 has edged up. Many residents hold a four-year degree, and a typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Cedar Point, one of the best known amusement parks in the country, is a short drive away, along with its well-known coasters such as Millennium Force and Steel Vengeance. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area honoring the War of 1812 and the peace that followed, is also a short drive away.
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- 410households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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, 6 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; Marblehead has one 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 Marblehead’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.
Marblehead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marblehead$453,253
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marblehead 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.
- Marblehead29.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marblehead28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marblehead5
Zip codes with a Marblehead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marblehead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.