Property Tax in Medina County, Ohio

What the Medina County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Medina County pay more than $3,448, and half pay less. Your own bill is set by your home's assessed value, the exemptions you qualify for, and the local taxing districts your property sits in — so individual bills vary widely around the median.

Dividing the median tax by the median home value gives a derived effective rate of 1.29% for Medina County. It is an estimate built from two survey medians, not the county's official rate, but it is a fair way to compare the local tax burden with other counties where home values are very different.

The key figures for Medina County

For context, the Ohio medians are $2,712 of tax on $199,200 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Medina County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Ohio: #9 of 88 counties
• Median home value rank in Ohio: #6 of 88
• Population rank in Ohio: #16 of 88 (183,049 residents)
• Population density rank: #15 of 88 (434 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Ohio: #51 of 88 (421 sq mi, 1.0% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $287; per $1,000 of home value: $1.29

How Medina County compares

Of the 88 Ohio counties with published data, 8 have a higher median property tax bill than Medina County's $3,448, putting the county at #9 in the state. Its bill is about 27% higher than the state median of $2,712 and about 16% higher than the national median of $2,969.

Rates and values pull in opposite directions: an expensive housing market can produce big bills at ordinary rates. Here the derived rate is 1.29%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #6 within Ohio.

Some extra context for Medina County: the median bill works out to about $287 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,287 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 183,049 people — the #16 most populous county in Ohio, spread over 421 square miles, a density of about 434 people per square mile. Its median home value, $268,000, ranks #6 among the state's 88 counties with data.

Nationally, Medina County's median bill of $3,448 ranks #325 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 10% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 1.6% of Ohio's population, its median home value is about 35% above the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 12.87% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Medina County to the most expensive county, Delaware County ($6,896), is $3,448 a year.

Counties nearest Medina County in the Ohio ranking

Medina County and its population peers

Population is a useful lens on these figures, so the table below sets Medina County beside the counties closest to it in population anywhere in the country — communities of a similar scale operating under different state and local tax systems. Ranked by median tax paid within this peer group of 9, Medina County's $3,448 bill is #2 of 9.

The closest population match is Ulster County, New York (182,109 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $6,124 on a median home value of $315,100 — $2,676 less than Medina County pays.

Inside Ohio itself, the counties closest to Medina County in population are Clermont County (209,862 residents, median tax $3,141 on a median value of $245,600); Trumbull County (201,367 residents, median tax $1,806 on a median value of $128,100); Licking County (180,311 residents, median tax $3,150 on a median value of $250,700); Greene County (168,531 residents, median tax $4,021 on a median value of $238,000). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

How the tax is worked out

Think of the final bill as three ingredients: the assessed value of the property, the exemptions subtracted from it, and the combined rate of every district the property sits in. Medina County's medians imply a derived rate of 1.29%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $5,148 a year, or around $429 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Medina County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.29% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Medina County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 1.36% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Medina County

Believe your assessment is too high? The practical order of attack is: obtain your record card and audit it line by line; collect comparable recent sales in Medina County; ask the assessor's office to correct anything plainly wrong; and, if the value still seems off, lodge a formal appeal ahead of the deadline printed on your assessment notice. Windows are short — often 30 to 90 days — and late appeals are usually rejected outright, however strong the case.

More Ohio counties

• Licking County, OH — $3,150
• Greene County, OH — $4,021
• Trumbull County, OH — $1,806
• Portage County, OH — $2,728
• Fairfield County, OH — $3,123
• Clermont County, OH — $3,141

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