Real Property
Taxable Value of Real Property by Class of Property
and County, Calendar Year 2010
All real property (except railroad property) in Ohio is
classified by county auditors into one of five categories,
depending on the property’s highest and best possible use, or
for certain agricultural property its current use. These
categories are residential, agricultural, industrial,
commercial (includes public utility real property), and
mineral.
In calendar year 2010, the total taxable value of all real
property in Ohio was approximately $238.1 million, a drop of
0.02% from calendar year 2009. Of this amount, $173.2 billion
or 72.7% was classified as residential property, $11.3
billion or 4.7% was classified as agricultural property,
$10.3 billion or 4.3% was classified as industrial property,
$43.2 billion or 18.1% was classified as commercial property,
and $0.2 billion or 0.1% was classified as mineral property.
The counties with the highest percentage of each of the five
property categories were: residential, Delaware County
(86.7%); agricultural, Noble County (42.0%); industrial,
Adams County (16.4%); commercial, Cuyahoga County (25.6%);
and mineral, Monroe County (3.4%).
The counties with the lowest percentage of each of the five
property categories were: residential, Monroe County (44.8%);
agricultural, Cuyahoga County (0.0%); industrial, Athens
County (0.8%); commercial, Vinton County (4.6%); and 33
counties reported having no mineral property value.
These figures are taken from real property abstracts filed
by county auditors with the Ohio Department of Taxation.