Portage, Ohio.
Typical home $186,484 (+2.5% in a year). Toledo, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Portage
Portage’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Portage is in Wood County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in the Bowling Green City school district. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,494 +2%
- $181,990$186,484 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,632 +18%
- $157,852$186,484 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.
- Portage$979
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Portage, OH rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Portage, Wood County, Ohio
Portage is a village of 398 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $56,316 a year and half less, against $74,216 across Wood County. Unemployment in Wood County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wood 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Portage is a village, one of the smallest kinds of community in Wood County, where residents know one another and the pace is quiet. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is valued at less than many comfortable family homes elsewhere in the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Bowling Green State University, Amazon and First Solar, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Wood County Museum sits in or beside town, and the Portage River and Baldwin Woods Preserve are a short drive away for time outdoors. Doyt Perry Stadium, a stadium for football, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Wood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 74,868 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 21 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bowling Green Wwtp weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Wood County
- Amazon4,000
- Bowling Green State University2,511
- First Solar2,500
- FedEx Ground2,000
- Magna International2,000
- Owens Community College1,104
- Wood Co Hospital960
- Wood County884
From Wood County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Wood County Economic Development Commission Ohio Labor Market Informer”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Portage’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 Wood County and the Toledo, OH metro.
Portage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Portage$186,484
- 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 Portage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Portage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.