Property Tax in Tuscarawas County, Ohio

What the Tuscarawas County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Tuscarawas County homeowners pay more than $1,910 a year and half pay less. The exact bill for any one home depends on its assessed value, exemptions, and which school, municipal and special districts cover it.

Set against the median home value of $176,800, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 1.08%. That rate is an estimate computed from the two medians — no county publishes a rate calculated this way — but it adjusts for home prices, which makes comparisons between counties more meaningful.

Tuscarawas County by the numbers

*Estimate derived from Census medians (tax ÷ value), not an official rate.

Tuscarawas County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Ohio: #42 of 88 counties
• Median home value rank in Ohio: #39 of 88
• Population rank in Ohio: #30 of 88 (92,585 residents)
• Population density rank: #30 of 88 (163 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Ohio: #12 of 88 (567 sq mi, 1.4% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $159; per $1,000 of home value: $1.08

How Tuscarawas County compares

The median tax bill in Tuscarawas County is about 30% lower than the state median ($2,712 for Ohio) and about 36% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #42 out of 88 Ohio counties with published Census data — 41 counties in the state have a higher median bill.

Comparisons cut both ways: a county can have a modest rate but high bills because homes are expensive, or a high rate but modest bills because homes are cheaper. Tuscarawas County's derived rate of 1.08% sits above the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Tuscarawas County: the median bill works out to about $159 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,080 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 92,585 people — the #30 most populous county in Ohio, spread over 567 square miles, a density of about 163 people per square mile. Its median home value, $176,800, ranks #39 among the state's 88 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 1151 record a higher median tax bill than Tuscarawas County — it sits in the top 37% nationally. The county holds roughly 0.8% of Ohio's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $176,800 versus $199,200), and a decade at the derived rate of 1.08% adds up to about 10.80% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, Meigs County, medians $1,117 — $793 less than Tuscarawas County per year.

Counties nearest Tuscarawas County in the Ohio ranking

Tuscarawas County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Tuscarawas County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 92,585 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Tuscarawas County's median bill of $1,910 is #7 of 9.

The closest population match is Ozaukee County, Wisconsin (92,345 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $4,629 on a median home value of $368,900 — $2,719 less than Tuscarawas County pays.

Inside Ohio itself, the counties closest to Tuscarawas County in population are Ashtabula County (97,343 residents, median tax $1,890 on a median value of $149,600); Geauga County (95,479 residents, median tax $4,533 on a median value of $305,100); Muskingum County (86,382 residents, median tax $1,609 on a median value of $170,100); Ross County (76,748 residents, median tax $1,577 on a median value of $158,500). 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

As an illustration of the arithmetic: at Tuscarawas County's derived rate of 1.08%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $4,320 a year. That is only an illustration using the derived rate — a real bill is computed from the property's assessed value, its exemptions, and the combined rates of its specific taxing districts, so it can be higher or lower.

The usual sequence is: the local assessor values the property; exemptions are applied; the taxable value is multiplied by the combined local rates; and the county bills and collects the tax, distributing it to the schools, municipalities and districts that levied it.

Illustrative bills in Tuscarawas County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.08% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas 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

• Geauga County, OH — $4,533
• Ashtabula County, OH — $1,890
• Muskingum County, OH — $1,609
• Columbiana County, OH — $1,488
• Allen County, OH — $1,782
• Ross County, OH — $1,577

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