Port Clinton, Ohio.
Typical home $279,662 (+2.0% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Port Clinton
Port Clinton’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Port Clinton is in Ottawa County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Port Clinton City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,545 +2%
- $274,117$279,662 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,941 +24%
- $225,720$279,662 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.
- Port Clinton$1,468
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Port Clinton, OH rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio
Port Clinton is a city of 6,025 people in Ottawa County. Half its households earn more than $60,909 a year and half less, against $76,101 across Ottawa County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Clinton is a small city where residents tend to be somewhat older than across the country as a whole. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect from the county figures. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, while July is the warmest month and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Port Clinton are H B Magruder Memorial Hospital, Port Clinton Manufacturing and the mail and parcel delivery operation. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, most people travel a short way to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Cedar Point, an amusement park, is a longer drive away, and its roller coasters, including Millennium Force and Maverick, are among the best known in the country. Also a longer drive away is Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a protected area.
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- 2,716households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Port Clinton
- H B Magruder Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital323FTE
- Port ClintonMail and parcel delivery26
- Port Clinton ManufacturingPrecision turned product manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 in Port Clinton’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.
Port Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Clinton$279,662
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Port Clinton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 32 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Port Clinton26.24%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Port Clinton32
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Port Clinton162
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Port Clinton46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Port Clinton$281,779
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Port Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.