Jefferson County

5 signing locations

Zone 5 · East

Regional Captain: Carol Coleman

Want to volunteer in Jefferson County? Call or text your Regional Captain — they'll sign you up as a County Captain or circulator.

Businesses & venues

Mrs. T’s Tavern

Yorkville, OH 43971

308 Public Road

Mon-Sun 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM

See barmaid to sign petition

The Hamilton Foundation

East Springfield, OH 43925

8158 State Route 43

Monday – Friday | 9am – 9pm

Hamilton Foundation

The River/WEIR Radio Studios

Steubenville, OH 43952

100 Mall Drive, Unit B10

Monday, Wednesday, Friday | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

White Front Cafe, LLC

Toronto, OH 43964

1500 Franklin Street

Mon – Sat | 2 pm to 1 am

Local volunteers

Private Residence

Steubenville, OH 43952

Private residence

Monday – Saturday | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Call or Text for Appointment to Sign Petition. Can meet in town or at our residence.

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Jefferson County at a glance

Population: 65,249
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.: $127,800
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.): 73.02%
Median income: $56,983
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.: 62,494
School districts: 5
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

350 350

2015: 350 filed

2015: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

15 2015

295 295

2016: 295 filed

2016: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

16 2016

395 395

2017: 395 filed

2017: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

17 2017

167 167

2018: 167 filed

2018: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

18 2018

167 167

2019: 167 filed

2019: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

19 2019

161 161

2020: 161 filed

2020: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

20 2020

104 104

2021: 104 filed

2021: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

21 2021

182 182

2022: 182 filed

2022: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

22 2022

308 308

2023: 308 filed

2023: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

23 2023

316 316

2024: 316 filed

2024: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

24 2024

376 376

2025: 376 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 Jefferson 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.	350	295	395	167	167	161	104	182	308	316	376
3rd Party Investor Filed Foreclosures 3rd Party Investor Filed Foreclosures Foreclosure cases filed by a third-party investor — 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.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
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.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
% 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.	$86,200	$87,100	$88,700	$90,000	$93,000	$95,300	$102,800	$115,100	$120,600	$127,800	—
% 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.	—	1%	2%	1%	3%	2%	8%	12%	5%	6%	—
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.)	89.46%	87.22%	86.71%	86.41%	96.09%	79.76%	78.21%	73.37%	73.02%	—	—

What This Data Means

Since 2015, 2,821 Jefferson 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 Jefferson County have increased by 7% since 2015.

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About this data: Jefferson County bundles multiple delinquent tax parcels into a single court case, with the Jefferson County Treasurer as co-plaintiff. The figures shown represent individual parcels, not case counts, and so aren't directly comparable to other counties' totals. Data confirmed by the Jefferson County Clerk of Courts' own case records, 2015–2025 (2,821 parcels). No third-party tax lien investors were found filing directly. 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: Jefferson County Clerk of Courts . 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.