Ottawa, Ohio.
Typical home $291,626 (+7.7% in a year).
Property tax and schools in Ottawa
Ottawa’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Ottawa is in Putnam County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Ottawa-Glandorf Local school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,891 +8%
- $270,735$291,626 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,406 +38%
- $211,220$291,626 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.
- Ottawa$1,531
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Ottawa, OH rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio
Ottawa is a village of 4,456 people in Putnam County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Putnam County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ottawa is a village and the seat of Putnam County, in the flat farmland of northwest Ohio. Most homes in town are lived in by their owners, and household incomes across the county run well above what is typical for the country. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town are Whirlpool Corporation's Ottawa Operations, Ottawa-Glandorf Local Schools and Walmart. The usual trip to work is a moderate drive, and unemployment across the county has eased over the past year even as the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Riley Creek runs in or beside town, a small waterway close to home. A longer drive brings you to Van Buren State Park and the reservoir at Van Buren Lake, a protected area built around the water. Also a longer drive away is Independence Dam State Park, another protected area set along a river.
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- 1,776households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 12,444 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pandora weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ottawa
- Whirlpool Corporation - Ottawa OperationsFreezers, chest and upright household-type, manufacturing482
- Ottawa-Glandorf Local SchoolsSchool district279FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- SilganBottles, plastics, manufacturing160
- Endera MotorsTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis138
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities127
- Croy's MowingLawn mowing services40
- Fresh EncounterSupermarkets34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,232 people in all. School districts come 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 high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ottawa’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 Putnam County.
Ottawa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ottawa$291,626
- 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.
- Ottawa14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ottawa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ottawa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.