ZIP code 43439: Erie Township and Lacarne

Drinking-water compliance

A health-based violation is a contaminant above its limit or a treatment rule not followed; monitoring, reporting and public-notice violations are paperwork. Lead is the 90th-percentile result across sampled homes, not a reading at any one tap.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

Byproducts and contaminants

TTHM

58.4 µg/L yearly mean in 2019, the last year in the file (limit 80); worst yearly mean 58.6, highest single sample 103; 133 samples from 2012 to 2019

HAA5

17.2 µg/L yearly mean in the last year sampled (limit 60); worst yearly mean 28.6, highest sample 54.7; 133 samples

Nitrate

highest of 97 samples was 5.09 mg/L as nitrogen (2013; limit 10); 3.63 in 2019, the last year sampled. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants

Arsenic

not detected in 9 samples (limit 10)

Solvents and fuels

benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride not detected in 8 samples

Bacteria

3 of 2,081 routine tap samples (0.14%) tested positive for total coliform in 2012 to 2019, 0 of 266 in 2019; E. coli found in 1 of 12 tap samples tested for it. Coliform itself is a warning sign; E. coli means sewage or manure reached the water

Farm chemicals

atrazine, alachlor not detected in 12 samples

Metals

barium in 9 of 9 samples, highest 27 µg/L (limit 2,000); chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, thallium not detected in 9 samples

EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results. Byproducts are judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site, so one high sample is not a violation. Nitrate and arsenic are measured where water enters the pipes.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of Ottawa County Regional Water District; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero

PFAS

UCMR 5

5 samples in 2023 at the entry point to the distribution system: PFBA 7.3, PFHxA 6.6, PFPeA 4.5 ng/L

Ohio EPA 2020

1 plant tested (latest 2020-09): nothing detected for the six PFAS tested

Ohio EPA latest

1 plant sampled by Ohio EPA, most recently 2025-11 (Ohio EPA statewide sampling status map)

Firefighting foam: 6 fire departments or other holders in Ottawa County registered 785 gallons of PFAS-based AFFF foam with Ohio EPA, 75 gallons in opened containers; the state is collecting it for disposal so it is never sprayed again.

Lithium: not detected in 4 UCMR 5 samples at Ottawa County Regional Water District (the method reports from 9 µg/L). Lithium is unregulated; EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.

PFAS are the forever chemicals from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. One sample above 4 ng/L is not a violation; compliance is judged on running annual averages, and systems are adding carbon filters ahead of the 2029 deadline. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; EPA SDWIS record OH6205011; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead at the tap

Latest period

0 ppb in the sampling period ending 2025-12

Record

4 sampling periods since 2016, none above 10 ppb

Service lines

8,415 inventoried: 0 lead, 0 galvanized needing replacement, 0 unknown, 8,415 not lead (reported all required service line types)

Children: the Ohio Department of Health lists this ZIP as high-risk for childhood lead exposure, mostly from old paint and soil, so every child living here should get a blood lead test at ages 1 and 2 (Medicaid covers it, and doctors are required to order it).

Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder; the 90th-percentile figure means nine in ten sampled homes were at or below it. Lead comes from the service line and the house plumbing, not the source water, so a low system result does not clear an old house. The action level drops from 15 to 10 ppb in 2027, and every lead line must be replaced within ten years of that.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for Ottawa County Regional Water District (OH6205011), the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

Fluoride and treatment

Treatment on file: corrosion control, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, powdered activated carbon, sand or media filtration.

Measured fluoride: 1.11 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.95 to 1.11 mg/L across 8 samples in 2012 to 2019 (EPA compliance monitoring). Natural fluoride in Ohio well water runs from a trace to over 2 mg/L in parts of the northwest.

The health department counts 92.2% of Ottawa County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.

Ohio law (ORC 6109.20, 1969) makes systems serving 5,000 or more people fluoridate unless the water already carries 0.8 mg/L naturally or the community exempted itself by ordinance or referendum in the months after the law passed; smaller systems choose for themselves. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for Ottawa County Regional Water District (OH6205011); EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search

Algal toxins

Raw water

76 detections at the intake across 11 bloom seasons (2016 to 2026); highest since 2024 2.683 µg/L

Treated water

never detected after treatment

Monitoring

470 samples from 2016 to 2026, latest 2026-08-18

Raw-water readings show what the plant has to remove; any detection at the intake triggers weekly paired raw and treated-water testing until two clean weeks, and carbon, ozone or chlorine destroys the toxin in nearly every case. The ten-day advisory levels for treated water are 0.3 µg/L for children under six and 1.6 µg/L for everyone else. Since November 2022 the bloom season runs June through November (sampling continues into early December), with treated water tested every two weeks the rest of the year; the 2016 to 2022 rule monitored year-round and stepped testing up to three days a week when raw water passed 5 µg/L.

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

Groundwater

Under the surface

fine-grained lake and outwash deposits, part of the Lake Maumee Lacustrine Aquifer (lacustrine setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits 25 - 100 ft thick

Bedrock

Tymochtee and Greenfield Dolomites, yielding > 100 gpm to a well

Setting

Limestone; water table 5-15 ft down, 2-4 in/yr recharge, clay shrink-swell soil (hydrogeologic setting 7F); pesticide index 159

Geology

its population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under more than 20 ft of drift; nearest verified sinkhole 9.4 mi away (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)

Water table

O-2 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 11.8 mi away: water 11.4 ft below ground on 2026-07-12; averaged 11.2 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 12.6 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 1.4 ft lower; range 1.3 to 19.2 ft over 3,381 readings since 2015

Nitrate risk

EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Portage River subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 19% if it draws on groundwater and 41% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)

Quality monitoring

Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Vickery Environmental (Sandusky County), 10.9 mi away: 59 ft deep in limestone or dolomite (Undiff Salina Dolom aquifer); bedrock 43 ft down; wells there yield 5 to 25 gallons a minute; sampled on the standard cycle

Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

Aquifer exposure

Karst

the population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under more than 20 ft of drift; no mapped sinkhole inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 9.4 mi from the center

Wellhead protection

less than half a percent of this ZIP lies inside any public water system's five-year wellhead protection area

Vulnerability index

DRASTIC 124 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)

Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

Sewage treatment

Size

0.93 million gallons a day design flow; the system has combined sewer overflows

Compliance

12 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in significant noncompliance (Effluent - Monthly Average Limit); 1 formal enforcement action in 5 years; 106 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years

Sludge source: nearest Oak Harbor WWTP, 4.9 mi away; 3 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: no Ohio EPA revolving-fund project inside this ZIP; the nearest is SR 163 Waterline Replacement (Oak Harbor, 2024, $318,290), 2.1 mi away.

Stormwater: this ZIP lies outside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, so its storm drains and ditches carry runoff without a municipal stormwater permit.

Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.

Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

Stream health

Uses failing

aquatic life 100% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 100%, fish consumption 100%

Causes listed

nutrients (100%), bacteria (pathogens) (100%), sediment and silt (100%)

Cleanup plans

100% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Portage River (not supporting).

Fish advisories (Ohio EPA): Steelhead trout from Lake Erie or any of its tributaries: one meal a month (PCBs). Statewide, every other fish is one meal a week because of mercury.

Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): Portage R. 0.4 Miles Upst. L. Portage R. on the Portage River, 0.8 mi away, draining 540 square miles: non attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 26 of 60 (2008); bug ICI 18 of 60 (2008); habitat QHEI 26 of 100. 2 within 3 miles, 23 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): no designated stream segment crosses this ZIP. Nearest specially protected stream: the Sandusky river (U.S. route 30 (RM 82.1) to Roger Young Memorial park in Fremont (RM 16.6)), 13.3 mi away, an Outstanding State Water. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

Proposed for 2026: the nearest reach Ohio EPA proposes to add to the antidegradation tiers is the Sandusky River (Grass run (RM 96.61) to Roger Young Memorial park in Fremont (RM 16.6)), 13.4 mi away, as Outstanding State Water.

PFAS in the river (Ohio EPA large river survey): at Sandusky R. At Fremont @ Tiffin Rd., 13.9 mi away, the water carried 64.6 ng/L of total PFAS (PFOA 3.2, PFOS 1.6 ng/L); fish fillets held 18.31 ng/g in catfish. Drinking water limits are 4 ng/L for PFOA and PFOS; river water is not drinking water, but treatment plants that draw from it start from these numbers.

Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Ottawa County used about 79 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 300 kg per square mile, 40th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 39 t, metolachlor 11 t, atrazine 6 t, 2,4-D 4 t, glufosinate 3 t. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 6 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 590 farms work 119,544 acres of Ottawa County, with 64.3% of its land in cropland, 203 acres to a farm. 4,066 cattle, 10 hogs, 1,119 laying hens, 101 turkeys; 19,369 acres of corn and 69,221 of soybeans. Sales $87 million, 8% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.

A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.

Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

Watershed

• Cedar-Portage100% of residentsDrains to Lake Erie

H2Ohio: nearest project Ottawa Wetland Restoration (Libben Farms), inland floodplain wetland, in progress, 0.7 mi away: This project restored 13 acres of wetland on a 134-acre private farm, capturing and filtering nutrients. The wetland improves water quality in the surrounding w...; 12 within 5 miles, 41 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Watershed grants: nearest "Replacement of HSTS in Sandusky River (WSOS)" by WSOS Community Action (hsts, Section 319), 4.7 mi away; 7 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA project lists: Section 319 and GLRI through fiscal 2023, SWIF through 2017).

Road salt: nearest went to MARGARETTA TOWNSHIP (equipment, 2024-2025), 14.7 mi away. H2Ohio pays for brine makers, calibrated spreaders and covered salt barns so less chloride reaches streams and wells.

Watershed plan: the Portage River subwatershed around this ZIP's center has an Ohio EPA-approved nine-element nonpoint source plan (2022), the blueprint that makes its farms, streambanks and communities eligible for federal Section 319 runoff grants.

Lake Erie coast: 100% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio's Coastal Management Area, the strip along Lake Erie where shore structures, erosion and public access are regulated by ODNR's Office of Coastal Management.

Lake level: Lake Erie at Marblehead, 16.2 mi from this ZIP's center, stood at 572.4 ft above sea level (IGLD 1985) in July 2026, 0.1 ft below the 1991 to 2020 average for that month; the last 12 months averaged 571.4 ft. The record monthly high was 574.7 ft in June 2019, when high water ate at bluffs and flooded marinas; the low since 1990 was 569.8 ft in January 2001 (NOAA).

The population center sits in the Portage River subwatershed; its water runs on through Lake Erie.

In 2015 Ottawa County drew about 52 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 4.6 million for public supply (3% from wells, 31,100 people served at 118 gallons a person a day at home), 42 million for power plant cooling, 1.4 million for industry, 3.3 million for mining; 9,800 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Portage River: 200 to 500 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program; 17,851 acres of grain crops; 128 miles of streams (2.6 per square mile); water use of 709 thousand gallons a day for homes and 21 thousand for farms; 34.4 inches of rain and snow a year; 10.6 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0.1 kg per hectare a year as manure and 48.8 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 48% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 52% of the subwatershed; 6.1% of the land is paved or roofed; 18% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: none of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, so stream crossings and fills here can use the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits under Ohio EPA's standing 401 certification (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

Homes and income

The Census publishes no housing estimates for this ZIP.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

Houses and neighborhoods

Homes

30 one-family houses, 1 three-family house, 6 manufactured homes; also 6 other residential parcels

Lot

median 0.28 acres (condominiums left out)

The atlas has only the parcel list here so far: 37 homes with address, land-use class, lot size and, where the county's upload carries one, a link to each parcel's page at the county auditor, from OGRIP's Ohio Statewide Parcels (Ottawa County; upload of May 24, 2023). OGRIP's copy leaves 9% of the county's parcels without a land-use class, so the list misses some houses. Year built, size, values and sales come from each county auditor's own appraisal records, which are being added county by county outward from Franklin County. The Ottawa County Auditor keeps each parcel's full record.

Show neighborhoods and houses

The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.

Source: OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (Ottawa County, upload of May 24, 2023); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

Building permits

Mix

1,255 single-family houses, 175 units in buildings of five or more, 65 in duplexes and small buildings

Value

$528.1 million of construction at the value declared on the permits

By year

2016: 134, 2017: 111, 2018: 166, 2019: 133, 2020: 137, 2021: 170, 2022: 219, 2023: 148, 2024: 122, 2025: 155, 2026 through July: 104

Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits

Home prices

FHFA publishes no price index for this ZIP: too few repeat sales or refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages to measure.

Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

Local taxes

Port Clinton City

23.8 effective mills (58.4 gross); $1,663 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 17.2, bonds 1.3, improvements 1.0, emergency 1.5, inside millage 2.8.

Municipal income tax

None: this is unincorporated township territory (Erie Township).

School district income tax

Port Clinton City none. About a third of Ohio districts levy one.

Sales tax

7% combined rate in Ottawa County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.

A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

Who delivers the electricity

• Toledo Edison investor-owned100% of residentsFirstEnergy Corp.

Toledo Edison outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 121 minutes (95 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.0 interruption a year.

Toledo Edison standard service offer price, 2024: 16.64 cents per kWh, about $123 a month for the average home, for the 79,007 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 199,807 pay Toledo Edison 7.81 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).

Toledo Edison solar and meters, 2024: 738 customers run net-metered solar (45.6 MW, 636 of them homes); 40% of its 321,229 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 0% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 4.0% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $2,202 a year against $54,936 of income); the 53% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 6.4%, and 21% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).

Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

Natural gas here

• Columbia Gas of Ohio regulated utility100% of residents, main companyNiSource Inc.

Pipes under the street: Columbia Gas of Ohio reported 20,620 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 64% plastic and 6.6% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 3,271 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 1 company operating in Ottawa County: Columbia Gas of Ohio.

Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

Power plants

1 plant within 10 miles totalling 894 MW: 1 nuclear (894 MW).

Solar: Clyde Solar Array, 3 MW AC (2016), 17 acres, 14.1 mi away; 1 utility-scale solar farm within 15 miles.

Nuclear: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (894 MW) is 5.9 miles away, so this ZIP is inside its roughly 10-mile emergency planning zone, with sirens, evacuation routes and potassium iodide tablets from the county emergency management agency.

Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

Gas transmission pipelines

No transmission line crosses this ZIP.

Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

Incumbent telephone company

• Frontier North100% of residentsFrontier

Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

Internet

No broadband data for this ZIP.

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

Cell signal

No FCC mobile coverage data for this ZIP.

Registered towers: 0 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 3 within 3 miles of its center; the nearest is a 229-foot lattice tower 1.5 mi away. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

EV charging

No public station inside this ZIP; the nearest of any kind is Tri Motor Sales, 5.6 mi. 0 stations within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 0 with DC fast charging.

Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

Public transit

0 stops inside this ZIP; the nearest stop is 10.7 mi from the population center.

Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. The nearest stop may be across the state line, and the out-of-state set may be incomplete. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.

Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

Walkability

Street grid

4 intersections per square mile, long blocks and country roads

Transit

no stop within three-quarters of a mile in the EPA's 2020 transit file

Mix of uses

employment mix 0.24 and mix of homes and job types 0.40 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied

Car-free households

0.0% of households have no vehicle (the EPA's own figure, ACS 2014 to 2018)

The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

Rail crossings

Ottawa County has logged 4 rail accidents since 2010, 1 of them derailments (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.

Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.

Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

Bridges

No inventoried bridge sits inside this ZIP.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

Traffic

No counted road segment has its midpoint inside this ZIP.

Road deaths: no fatal crash was recorded inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (NHTSA FARS).

Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

Airports and trains

Nearest airfield

Erie-Ottawa International (PCW), Port Clinton, 9 mi, public use

Amtrak

Sandusky station, 17.6 mi

Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas

Radon in this ZIP

No radon tests have been reported to the state for this ZIP code. EPA's advice is the same everywhere: test your home.

Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program

Flood zones

0% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain.

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.4 inches in 24 hours (2.7 in a single hour, 4.2 in six); a 2-year storm 2.3, 10-year 3.4, 25-year 4.1, 500-year 7.2 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.

Nearest river gauge: Portage River near Elmore OH, 9.6 mi away, draining 494 square miles. Record flow 14,100 cubic feet a second at a stage of 13.25 ft on 2011-05-27; the highest since 2016 was 9,600 on 2017-07-15 (USGS, 23 annual peaks, 1999 to 2025).

1 federal flood insurance policy is in force in this ZIP, covering $152,000 of buildings; the typical policy costs $525 a year.

Levees: nearest is the Unincorporated Area 61, 0.5 mi away (non-accredited).

Community status: Ottawa County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program and earn a Community Rating System class 9 (5% off policies in the high-risk zone); flood map effective 12/01/22.

Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

Natural hazard risk

• Inland flooding85
• Strong wind81

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $58,775 a year in buildings, crops and lives.

The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 85, tornado 60, winter weather 71.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

Climate

Temperature

50.7°F average; typical January low 19°, July high 85°

Hot and cold days

21 days a year reach 90°F; 126 nights fall below freezing, 6 below 0°F; 38 days never climb above freezing

Rain and snow

37.5 inches of precipitation on 81 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 26 inches of snow on 11 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 34 days

Degree days

6,028 heating, 874 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Ottawa County has spent 76 weeks in moderate drought or worse, 37 of them severe or worse (most recently 11 weeks in 2026), and 127 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was severe drought in 2026/03; 10% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Ottawa County): the average year ran 51.7 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 49.6 °F over 1901 to 1930, 2.1 °F warmer (1.7 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 54.8 °F, and 2025 came in at 51.6 °F. Precipitation averaged 34.5 inches a year lately against 33.4 a century ago, 4% more; the wettest year was 2011 with 53.2 inches, and 2025 brought 29.8. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Fremont (13.3 mi, temperature and snowfall; 21 years of snowfall record); Fremont 2.2 ENE (10.6 mi, precipitation). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them; NOAA marks this snowfall normal provisional because the station record is too short or too patchy for a standard normal, and the temperature and precipitation figures here skip stations with under 10 years.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

Air quality

Worst days

98th-percentile day 34.5 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)

Ozone

71 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Cooley, 16.4 mi away (standard 70)

County AQI

Ottawa County has no monitor of its own, so EPA publishes no daily index for it

Air toxics

20 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Ottawa County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (15) and carbon tetrachloride (3)

Permitted sources

no permitted air source operates inside this ZIP; nearest major source Port Clinton Landfill in Port Clinton, 1.2 mi (EPA ECHO)

Air standards

Ottawa County meets every national air quality standard and carries no maintenance plan (EPA Green Book)

Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.

Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

Toxic and Superfund sites

0 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 0 sites appear in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).

Nearest landfill: Port Clinton Landfill Inc, 0.6 mi from the center, municipal solid waste landfill (open); 2 landfill sites within 3 miles of the population center. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.

State cleanup program: 0 sites inside this ZIP, 2 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is Browning-Ferris Ind, 0.9 mi from the center, site assessment.

Voluntary cleanups: 0 properties inside this ZIP hold an Ohio EPA covenant not to sue after a Voluntary Action Program cleanup; 0 such properties within 3 miles of the population center, nearest Standard Products, 6.4 mi. These are former industrial and commercial sites certified clean enough to reuse.

Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest Port Clinton Landfill Inc (municipal landfill), 0.6 mi from the center; 1 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.

Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): no active hazardous waste handler inside this ZIP; nearest treatment, storage or disposal facility: Materion Brush Inc in Elmore, 9.2 mi. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Buckeye Sanitation, Gibsonburg, 16.6 mi away; the nearest household battery drop-off is Lowe's, Fremont, 10.8 mi away (2 within 15 mi) (Ohio EPA).

The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

Toxic releases

No facility inside this ZIP files a Toxics Release Inventory report. Only plants in listed industries with 10 or more workers that handle a listed chemical above its threshold must file, so small shops and most businesses never appear.

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files

Dams

Nearest high-hazard dam: Howard Farm Dam, 14.4 mi, condition satisfactory (recreation, 18 ft high, 4K acre-feet, built 2018, on Wards Canal, local government owned).

No inventoried dam sits inside this ZIP.

"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams

Disasters on record

Strongest nearby: EF2 on 2023-06-15, 3.44 mi track.

16 federal declarations for Ottawa County since Ohio's first in 1956 (12 major disasters): flood 5, severe storm 5, biological 2. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

9 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M2.8 11 km NW of Put-in-Bay, Ohio in 2007.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Ottawa County): 11 tornado warnings (2015: 2, 2019: 1, 2023: 6, 2024: 1, 2025: 1), 150 severe thunderstorm warnings, 14 flash flood warnings, 10 flood warnings and 35 flood advisories, 7 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 33 heat warnings or advisories, 6 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 1 snow squall warning; 837 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 6 hazard mitigation projects in Ottawa County since 1998, worth $2.4 million ($1.3 million federal), covering 32 properties; mostly home elevations, other non construction (regular project only). Largest: home elevations for Ottawa (County), $993,974 (fiscal 2019).

70 severe weather reports for Ottawa County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 50 damaging thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash floods, 4 river and street flooding. Largest hail 1.25 in (Jun 15, 2023); strongest measured gust 79 mph (Mar 31, 2023); about $5.9 million in reported damage, the costliest being river and street flooding on Jun 1, 2019 ($2.0M). Zone-wide advisories add 11 lakeshore flooding, 5 high wind, 4 winter storms.

Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

Spills and releases

By year

2021: 0, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 0, 2025: 0, 2026: 0

Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.

Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

Oil and gas wells

Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

Abandoned mines

Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.

Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Lafarge Marblehead (limestone, Lafarge Marblehead, 3,521,113 tons sold), 15.6 mi away in Ottawa County; 0 within 3 miles, 0 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

Soils and septic

Soil

Nappanee silty clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes; Nappanee makes up 85% of the unit, 1% slope

Water

somewhat poorly drained; flooding none, ponding none

Septic

Somewhat limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule (very limited under the national rule)

Basements

Very limited for dwellings with basements

Farmland

Prime farmland if drained

Elevation

581 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill

One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

Parks and public land

Nearest state park: Catawba Island State Park, 10.3 mi.

Trails: no built named trail crosses this ZIP; nearest is the SR 53 Bike Lanes, 9.6 mi from the ZIP's center (ODNR statewide trails inventory).

Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.

State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: Boat Ramp at Catawba Island State Park, 10.4 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Catawba Pier at Catawba Island State Park, 10.3 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Delaware State Park, 77.2 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Camp Area D & E at East Harbor State Park, 11.9 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Lake Erie and tributary access: nearest river access site Little Portage State Wildlife Area on Portage R., Little Portage R. (ODNR Wildlife), 1.7 mi away; 4 within 5 miles, 53 within 15. Nearest swimming beach: Camp Perry Beach on Lake Erie, 2.5 mi, 2 beaches within 10 miles. (ODNR coastal access inventory)

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

Wetlands

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Little Portage WA (Ohio DNR), 281 acres, 1.4 mi away; 7 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: nearest Three Eagles, 7.7 mi away (a mitigation bank); 2 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Assessed wetland: nearest NWCA-OH-3030, a wetland, 3.2 mi away: ORAM 29 of 100 (category 1), plant community index 22 of 100 (surveyed 2011); 14 within 10 miles. Category 3 wetlands are the state's best and hardest to fill; category 1 are degraded.

Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

Land cover

Developed

97%: 5% high intensity (downtown blocks, big-box lots), 33% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 56% low (houses on larger lots), 3.3% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)

Farmland

0.0%: 0.0% row crops, 0.0% pasture and hay

Forest

0.0%

Water and wetland

0.0% open water, 3.3% wetland

Paved and roofed

47% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in

Tree canopy

0% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy

Area

under 0.1 square miles of land

Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

People

The Census Bureau's survey counts no adults 25 and over living in this ZIP, so the education, race and origin shares this card is built on are not available.

Moving

1,880 people moved into Ottawa County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 1,780 moved out (net +100, 33,356 stayed put); most arrivals came from Lucas, OH (319), Wood, OH (239), Sandusky, OH (191); most leavers went to Sandusky, OH (256), Lucas, OH (241), Wood, OH (227) (IRS)

Metro or rural

USDA rural-urban continuum code 3 of 9 for Ottawa County: metro - counties in metro areas of fewer than 250,000 population

County growth

Ottawa County went from 40,367 people in April 2020 to 39,481 in July 2025 (-2.2%): 1,421 births, 2,871 deaths and a net +635 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 21 left for elsewhere in the U.S. and 23 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)

Since 1900

First counted in 1840 with 2,248 people and 3,308 by 1850, Ottawa County counted 22,213 people in 1900, 29,469 in 1950, 37,099 in 1970, 40,974 in 2000 and 40,367 in 2020; it peaked at 41,428 in 2010 (1.8 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as a metropolitan suburb with heavy commuting to the core (rural-urban commuting area code 2 of 10, 2020 edition).

Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

Jobs and commuting

Workplace safety (OSHA): no inspection since 2020 (1 on record since the 1970s). No worker death investigated since 2015.

County labor market: Ottawa County's unemployment rate was 3.5% in July 2026 (5.0% a year earlier), with 21,356 people in the labor force and 751 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $1,156 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 0.4% on the year) to 13,175 workers at 1,211 establishments, employment up 3.1%; the largest private sectors are manufacturing (2,288 jobs, $1,385 a week), restaurants and hotels (1,665 jobs, $431 a week), retail (1,375 jobs, $671 a week). (BLS)

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $44 million in contracts performed in Ottawa County ($1,096 a resident) and $77 million in grants ($1,918 a resident), plus $81,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $341 million in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Ottawa County produced $2.0 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, down 3.1% since 2019); personal income came to $68,759 a person in 2024, 10th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 28% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Ottawa County is a nonmetro county with a recreation economy, with none of the ERS distress flags.

Where residents work: 0% inside this ZIP; 58% in Port Clinton (43452), 8% in Fremont (43420), 4% in Strongsville (44136) (shares of the 26 residents with an Ohio workplace).

Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).

Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

Upward mobility

No Opportunity Atlas estimate covers enough of this ZIP (tracts redrawn since 2010, or too few children).

Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

Social vulnerability

Socioeconomic status

36th percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance

Household characteristics

31st: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English

Racial and ethnic minority status

25th

Housing and transportation

20th: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters

The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

Community health

Weight and activity

obesity 41.3%, no leisure-time physical activity 31.3%

Chronic conditions

diabetes 13.2%, high blood pressure 39.4%, COPD 8.4%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 8.6%

Habits

current smoking 18.4%, binge drinking 16.9%, short sleep 40.3%

Mind

depression 24.5%, frequent mental distress 17.9%, feeling lonely 35.2%

Access

uninsured under 65 9.8%, yearly checkup 77.7%, dental visit 58.6%

Hardship

any disability 29.8%, food insecurity 14.0%

Heart and lungs

current asthma 10.8%, coronary heart disease 7.5%, stroke 3.6%, arthritis 31.0%

Keeping up

78.6% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 86.4% had a cholesterol check in 5 years

Social needs

housing insecurity 11.8%, no reliable transportation 7.5%, utility shut-off threat 8.1%, lacking emotional support 23.1%

Provider shortage

100% live in a designated primary care shortage area (score 10 of 25); none for dental; 100% live in an area HRSA designates a mental health shortage area for its low-income residents (score 16 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Ottawa County sits in health group 4 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 4 for community conditions. Premature death 8,724 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 2,111 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 796 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 2,352 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 2,776 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 88.8 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 22.0 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths n/a per 1,000 births; teen births 12.6 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 12.0 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 8.2 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; at least one community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 10 deaths in the 12 months ending February 2025 (17 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending May 2022), about 25.1 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide in the 12 months ending December 2025; the county count has been suppressed (1 to 9 deaths) in every later month (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Ottawa County records 510 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 348 cases a year, with the rate stable; cancer deaths 179.4 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 59.6 (63.6), colorectal 40.7 (38.4), female breast 147.1 (133), prostate 124.6 (120.8), bladder 21.4 (21.8), leukemia 19 (13).

Medicare: 13,006 people in Ottawa County were on Medicare in 2025 (33% of residents): 11,961 aged 65 or over and 1,045 younger people with disabilities. 52% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 9% also had Medicaid and 87% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 10% since 2020 (CMS).

Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

Life expectancy

No tract estimate covers this ZIP.

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

Nearest hospital

25 beds · no trauma designation listed · 1 general or critical-access hospital within 10 miles, 6 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★☆☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 150 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 71% would definitely recommend it, 76% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (★★★★☆ patient-experience rating, 125 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 11.4% (about the national rate), pneumonia 16.3% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025 (Medicare).

Community health center: nearest Port Clinton Health Center, Port Clinton, 6.8 mi away; 0 within 3 miles, 1 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Sandusky VA Clinic, Sandusky (primary care outpatient clinic), 18 mi away; 0 VA sites within 10 miles, 1 within 25.

Dialysis: nearest Davita Sandusky Dialysis Center, Sandusky, 16.3 mi away, 8 stations, Medicare ★★★☆☆ (DaVita); 0 within 5 miles, 0 within 15.

Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Nursing homes

1 certified home within 5 miles, 7 within 15.

Medicare rating

★★★★☆ overall; inspections ★★★☆☆; staffing ★★★★☆

Beds

115 certified

Ownership

Government, county

Penalties

fined $17,345 in 1 federal penalty since 2023, the latest on 2025-06-10 (CMS)

Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.

Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data

Crime

Reporting

no 2024 incident data on file with the FBI

The sheriff is the local police in the county's townships and in villages without a force of their own; no other agency's figures cover these residents.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

Police and post office

0 stations within 3 miles, 4 within 8.

Nearest post office: Lacarne Post Office, 0.1 mi; 1 inside this ZIP.

Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

Fire and EMS

2 stations within 3 miles, 5 within 8.

Inside this ZIP: Erie Township Volunteer Fire Department.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

Public library

0 libraries within 3 miles, 2 within 8.

Open

about 56 hours a week

Building

17,075 square feet

Ida Rupp Public Library

3 buildings, serves 19K people, 4.2 visits per resident a year, 189K items lent, 627 programs, $2.3M annual income

Museums: nearest Ottawa County Museum, historical society, Port Clinton, 5.3 mi away; 0 within 5 miles, 13 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

Grocery access

Distance

92% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 84% more than 1 mile

Without a car

0% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access

Poverty

12.9% of residents below the poverty line

SNAP stores

no supermarket or grocery store inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 0 convenience stores; nearest supermarket or grocery store Community Markets (super store), 5.5 mi from the ZIP's center; 0 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)

Setting

100% of residents in urban tracts, across 1 tract, 1 flagged

A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

History

The history of this area has not been researched yet; the work runs county by county outward from Franklin County.

Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality and township, loaded on demand; Native American history per county and statewide from the same sources and the nations' own histories · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

Historic places

Nearest listing: Island House, Port Clinton, 5.3 mi (certified 2008).

Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS

School district

• Port Clinton City100% of residentsCity school district

0 public schools inside this ZIP. Nearest to the population center: Bataan Memorial Primary School (2.5 stars), 4.9 mi; 0 within a mile, 0 within 3.

Money, fiscal 2023: Port Clinton City took in $32 million, 19% from the state, 71% local and 10% federal, and spent $17,095 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 1,489 students, 58% of it on instruction; capital outlay $1.7 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 14% of Port Clinton City's school-age children below the poverty line (216 of 1,544 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

School report card

Components

achievement 4 stars, progress 4 stars, gap closing 5 stars, early literacy 2 stars, graduation 4 stars, college and career readiness 1 star

Achievement

performance index 81% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 88.9, 87 the year before)

Graduation

93.5% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 49.6% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness

Spending

$15,025 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide

Teachers

average salary $72,840, 16 years of experience, 61.3% with a master's degree, 5.1% in their first years of teaching

Enrollment

1,364 students in 2024-25

Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards

Colleges

Vanguard-Sentinel Adult Career and Technology Center is a public career school with 23 students over the 2023-24 year.

0 institutions within 10 miles, 7 within 25.

Next nearest: Terra State Community College (12.8 mi).

Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS

Local government

• Erie Township, Ottawa County100% of residentsTownship

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

Who represents this ZIP

U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)

• Marcy Kaptur DU.S. House OH-9Toledo · since 1983 · site
• Theresa Gavarone ROhio Senate 2Bowling Green · since 2019 · site
• D. J. Swearingen ROhio House 89Huron · since 2019 · site

Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS