Salem Township, Ottawa County

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Mailing lists for Salem Township

Owners in Salem Township to mail, counted from the county's records today. The price is the whole list; you see the exact count and price again before you pay, and the file downloads when you pay.

No phone numbers or email addresses. Not for screening anyone for housing, a job, credit or insurance.

Home sales by month

57 home sales in Salem Township from October 2025 to September 2026, at a median price of $200,000.

Source: Ottawa County Auditor, sales it marks as real sales (not family transfers or estates), counted once per deed, by the month of the sale. Data as of October 22, 2026.

Property tax rates

Most homes in Salem Township (1,053 of 1,879) are in taxing district 270, Salem Twp-Oak H Corp/B-C-S LSD. Its effective rate on homes is 48.17 mills, and the state estimates the yearly tax on a $100,000 owner-occupied home there at $1,533.

A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed value, and Ohio assesses a home at 35% of its appraised value. The effective rate is the voted rate after the state's reduction factors. The $100,000 figure is the state's own estimate for an owner-occupied home, after the owner-occupied credits.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, 2025 aggregate property tax rates by taxing district (tax year 2025, paid in 2026), published March 25, 2026. District for each parcel: Ottawa County Auditor, October 22, 2026.

Schools

Public schools inside the township line

• Oak Harbor High Schoolgrades 7 to 12, 669 students, Benton Carroll Salem Local districtOhio report card: 4.5 stars
• Oak Harbor Intermediate Schoolgrades 4 to 6, 315 students, Benton Carroll Salem Local districtOhio report card: 4.5 stars
• R C Waters Elementary Schoolgrades K to 3, 357 students, Benton Carroll Salem Local districtOhio report card: 5 stars

Private schools

• Ottawa County Christian Academygrades K to 12, 70 students, Baptist
• St. Boniface Elementary Schoolgrades PK to 8, 40 students, Roman Catholic

Schools and students: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, fall 2024 count, and Private School Universe Survey, 2023-24. Ratings: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2025-26 School Report Cards, the state's own overall star rating for each school. A school is listed here when its address sits inside the boundary.

Library

• Oak Harbor Public Library147 W. Main St.Open about 50 hours a week

The Oak Harbor Public Library had 34,528 visits and lent 40,374 books, movies and e-books in 2024, with 3,085 card holders.

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024 (released June 2026). Figures are for the whole library system.

Crime reported to the FBI

The Salem Township Police Department is listed with the FBI but sent no reports for 2020 to 2025. The Ottawa County Sheriff's FBI figures are county-wide and are on the county page.

Reporting varies from agency to agency and year to year, and these numbers are as reported to the FBI. A low count can mean an agency reported only part of the year; a year with no reports is left blank, never counted as zero. Violent crime means murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime means burglary, theft and vehicle theft. Paper Trail Ohio adds no score and does not compare places.

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Return A and NIBRS files for data years 2020 to 2025 (files dated August 14, 2026), Crime Data Explorer.

Official offices

The official records for Salem Township are kept by the county. Paper Trail Ohio is not a government website.

What you can do here

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