Martin, Ohio.
Typical home $223,339 (+2.7% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Martin
Martin is in Ottawa County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,796 +3%
- $217,543$223,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,125 +21%
- $184,213$223,339 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.
- Martin$1,172
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Martin, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Martin, Ottawa County, Ohio
The Census does not count Martin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Martin is a small town in Ottawa County, in northwest Ohio, close to the Lake Erie shore. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month. Rain and melted snow fall fairly steadily through the year, so most people keep a dependable coat and umbrella handy.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, and others work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment or in shops. Across Ottawa County, fewer people are out of work than a year earlier, and job numbers have edged up over the past year. Most people drive to their jobs, and few work from home, while a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many larger cities.
Things to do. For a short drive, Maumee Bay State Park is a protected area on the bay, and the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area nearby that suits quiet walks. For a longer drive, the Toledo Museum of Art is a museum and one of the best known places in the region.
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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, 10 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.
Martin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Martin$223,339
- 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 Martin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Martin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.