Cuyahoga County

27 signing locations

Zone 10 · North Central

Regional Captain: Jeffrey Robinson

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Businesses & venues

A ALL AMERICAN INSURANCE AGENCY

Parma, OH 44129

7756 West Ridgewood Drive

Monday – Friday | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

African American Museum

Cleveland, OH 44106

1765 Crawford Rd

Monday, Wednesday, Friday | 4 PM – 6 PM | Saturday and Sunday | 1 PM – 2 PM

Ark Jewelers

South Euclid, OH 44121

2002 Warrensville Center Rd.

Monday – Friday | 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Arova

South Euclid, OH 44118

13911 Cedar Road

M-F Noon-9PM

Ball Chemical & Equipment Co.

Cleveland, OH 44134

5380 Brookpark Rd

Monday – Friday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Burgers 2 Beer

Highland Heights, OH 44143

6323 Wilson Mills Road

Daily | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

See Manager to Sign

ClevelandMoto

Cleveland, OH 44111

16211 Lorain Avenue

Tuesday – Saturday | 11 AM – 5 PM

Dr. James J. Edwards

Cleveland, OH 44129

5500 Ridge Road, Suite 208

Mondays & Wednesdays | 9 am to 3 pm

Earl’s Xclusive Cuts

Cleveland, OH 44120

12603 Buckeye Rd

Seven Days a Week! | 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM

Good Earth Farm Store

Cleveland, OH 44102

9600 Madison Ave.

Every Mon & Thur. | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

KEEN Zine Gallery

Parma, OH 44129

5411 Pearl Road

Thursday – Friday | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Saturdays | 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Le Petit Triangle Cafe

Cleveland, OH 44113

1881 Fulton Rd

Wednesday – Friday | 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM

Lincoln West High School

Cleveland, OH 44109

3202 W 30th St

Text or Call for Appointment | meet by W 30th Street Entrance

By appointment

Marathon Gas Station

Cleveland, OH 44105

9015 Harvard Avenue

Mon – Wed – Fri | 8 am – 4 pm

RA Strauss Electric Supply

Cleveland, OH 44103

4300 Superior Avenue

Mon – Friday 8 am – 4 pm

Rapid Cleaners

Brunswick, OH 44212

69 Pearl Road

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday | 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM | Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Saturday | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Posted in Medina and Cuyahoga Co

RBG Virtual Solutions

Garfield Heights, OH 44125

5749 Turney Road

By appointment

RWS Financial Services

Parma, OH 44134

2533 West Pleasant Valley Rd.

By Appointment Only

By appointment

Sherry’s Dry Cleaners

Rocky River, OH 44116

21804 Center Ridge Road

Monday – Friday | 8 AM – 3 PM

Front Desk

Standing On Business

East Cleveland, OH 44112

1838 Farmington Rd

**By Appointment – Call or Text for an appointment to sign the Petition**

By appointment

Store Front

Lakewood, OH 44107

15635 Madison Avenue

By Appointment Also available in Solon 44139 area

By appointment

Local volunteers

Private Residence

Parma, OH 44134

Private residence

By Appointment Only

Private Residence

Cleveland, OH 44119

Private residence

Text for an appointment. Eastside of Cleveland near Euclid.

Private Residence

Olmsted Falls, OH 44138

Private residence

By appointment via text or phone for Cuyahoga and Western Lorain

Private Residence

North Royalton, OH 44133

Private residence

King Pin Computers - By Appointment Only

Private Residence

Cleveland, OH 44127

Private residence

Daily

Call for an appointment

Private Residence

Seven Hills, OH 44131

Private residence

By Appointment

Call or text for appointment.

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Cuyahoga County at a glance

Population: 1,200,000
Median home (2024) Median home (2024) The midpoint value of owner-occupied homes — half the county's homes are worth more, half less. Source: the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates (table B25077), which reflect what owners estimate their home is worth, not sale prices. The year shown is the most recent one published.: $195,400
Assessment ratio (2023) Assessment ratio (2023) How close the county auditor's appraised values are to what homes actually sell for. The Ohio Department of Taxation compares the auditor's appraised value to the real sale price on arm's-length sales and publishes a median ratio for each city and township; this figure combines those into one county number, weighted by each area's number of sales. 100% means appraisals matched sale prices. 75% means the typical home was appraised at about three-quarters of what it sold for; above 100% means the typical home was appraised for more than it sold for. It describes the county as a whole — any individual property can be far off it. (Ohio bills tax on 35% of appraised value; that 35% is fixed by statute and is not what this ratio measures.): 71.32%
Median income: $62,823
Parcels Parcels Separately taxed pieces of real property — each parcel has its own number on the auditor's books and its own tax bill. A tax foreclosure case usually covers a single parcel, so this is roughly the pool of properties those filings are drawn from. Figure as published on the committee's original county page.: 520,000
School districts: 32
Last Reappraisal Last Reappraisal Ohio counties reappraise every property every six years, with a lighter 'update' three years in between (ORC §5713.01). The values set in that year drive tax bills until the next one. Dates come from the Ohio Department of Taxation's published sexennial reappraisal and triennial update schedule.: 2024
Next Update Next Update Ohio counties reappraise every property every six years, with a lighter 'update' three years in between (ORC §5713.01). The values set in that year drive tax bills until the next one. Dates come from the Ohio Department of Taxation's published sexennial reappraisal and triennial update schedule.: 2027

Property Tax Lien Foreclosure History

Total filed Lost to sheriff sale Lost to sheriff sale — still gathering this data

662 662

2015: 662 filed

2015: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

15 2015

830 830

2016: 830 filed

2016: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

16 2016

1,082 1,082

2017: 1,082 filed

2017: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

17 2017

2,033 2,033

2018: 2,033 filed

2018: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

18 2018

2,561 2,561

2019: 2,561 filed

2019: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

19 2019

2,797 2,797

2020: 2,797 filed

2020: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

20 2020

2,624 2,624

2021: 2,624 filed

2021: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

21 2021

1,310 1,310

2022: 1,310 filed

2022: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

22 2022

1,846 1,846

2023: 1,846 filed

2023: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

23 2023

2,021 2,021

2024: 2,021 filed

2024: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

24 2024

2,076 2,076

2025: 2,076 filed

2025: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

25 2025

Why are 2019–2021 cases mostly still active? Ohio's COVID-19 emergency orders (beginning March 2020) imposed a foreclosure moratorium that paused most delinquent tax lien proceedings for over a year. Cases filed before and during the freeze accumulated in county courts and many are still working toward a final outcome — either a sheriff sale or a dismissal once the homeowner resolves the debt.

Why do some rows below show a dash (—)? Finding out whether a case was lost to sheriff sale, dismissed, or is still pending requires opening and reading each individual court case one at a time — it isn't reported anywhere as a simple summary number. We are actively working through this county-by-county for all Ohio counties. A dash means we don't have that breakdown yet, not that the outcome was zero.

Why does Assessment Ratio have gaps? The Ohio Department of Taxation only publishes this figure for years when Cuyahoga County underwent its sexennial reappraisal or triennial update — not every year in between. A dash means no study was conducted that year, not that the county was accurately assessed.

Metric	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Treasurer Filed Foreclosures Treasurer Filed Foreclosures Tax lien foreclosure cases the county Treasurer filed against properties with unpaid property taxes — usually brought by the county Prosecutor on the Treasurer's behalf. Counted from the county's own court records, year by year; the source is linked below this table.	662	830	1,082	2,033	2,561	2,797	2,624	1,310	1,846	2,021	2,076
Tax Ease Ohio Filed Foreclosures Tax Ease Ohio Filed Foreclosures Foreclosure cases filed by Tax Ease Ohio — a private company that bought delinquent tax liens from the county and then went to court to collect on them. Ohio counties may sell tax liens this way under ORC §§5721.30–5721.43, and once sold it is the investor, not the county, that files the case.	0	0	0	165	214	35	7	2	1	0	0
Lost to Sale Lost to Sale Cases that ended with the property sold at sheriff's sale — the owner lost the home. This can only be determined by reading each case on the court docket, so a dash means we don't have that breakdown for the year yet, not that the number was zero.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Dismissed Dismissed Cases closed without a sheriff's sale — typically because the owner paid off the delinquent taxes or worked out a payment plan. Also read case by case from the docket.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Pending Pending Cases filed but not yet resolved by a sheriff's sale, dismissal, or other closure — still working their way through the court system. Where the court publishes a case status we use it directly; otherwise this is that year's filings minus the cases lost to sale and dismissed.	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	223
% Lost % Lost Lost to Sale divided by Treasurer Filed Foreclosures for the same year, rounded to a whole percent. A case filed one year may not sell until a later one, so read this as that year's rate rather than the eventual fate of that year's exact cases.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Median Home Value Median Home Value The midpoint value of owner-occupied homes — half the county's homes are worth more, half less. Source: the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates (table B25077), which reflect what owners estimate their home is worth, not sale prices. The year shown is the most recent one published.	$121,800	$122,200	$123,900	$128,000	$132,800	$137,800	$146,800	$168,700	$183,200	$195,400	—
% Value Change % Value Change Year-over-year change in the Median Home Value row above, rounded to the nearest whole percent. It is only computed when that year and the one before it both have a value, so it is never carried across a gap in the data.	—	0%	1%	3%	4%	4%	7%	15%	9%	7%	—
Assessment Ratio Assessment Ratio How close the county auditor's appraised values are to what homes actually sell for. The Ohio Department of Taxation compares the auditor's appraised value to the real sale price on arm's-length sales and publishes a median ratio for each city and township; this figure combines those into one county number, weighted by each area's number of sales. 100% means appraisals matched sale prices. 75% means the typical home was appraised at about three-quarters of what it sold for; above 100% means the typical home was appraised for more than it sold for. It describes the county as a whole — any individual property can be far off it. (Ohio bills tax on 35% of appraised value; that 35% is fixed by statute and is not what this ratio measures.)	99.73%	90.68%	87.12%	82.34%	85.29%	79.26%	80.71%	73.87%	71.32%	—	—

What This Data Means

Since 2015, 20,266 Cuyahoga County families have had a tax lien foreclosure filed against their home — each one a household at risk of losing everything over a debt to the county.
Tax lien foreclosures in Cuyahoga County have increased by 214% since 2015.

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About this data: Data obtained from the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts' online case search (Tax Foreclosure filing type), reflecting cases filed by the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County, including both Common Pleas and Board of Revision (Ohio Revised Code §§ 323.65–323.78) cases. Third-party investor Tax Ease Ohio also filed 424 foreclosure cases directly, 2018–2025; NAR Ohio LLC was checked and found to have filed none. Median home value for 2025 is not available: the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (the source for this row) had not yet published that vintage as of this data's retrieval date. Assessment ratio data is not available for 2024-2025: neither of the Ohio Department of Taxation's sales-ratio studies (SRD04 or the archived PS1&2) covers those year(s) for this county.

Source: Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts (Foreclosure Search, Filing Type 'Tax Foreclosure case type). These are property tax lien foreclosures only — not mortgage foreclosures.

Assessment ratio: Ohio Department of Taxation, SRD04 — Residential Sales Statistics by Political Subdivision (2020–present) and PS1&2 — Sales Ratios of Real Property, By Class of Property and County (2015–2018, archived).

All data is sourced from publicly available government records including individual county court portals, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Ohio Department of Taxation. AxOHTax makes no warranty as to the accuracy of compiled figures. Users should verify data independently for official purposes.