Stark County

11 signing locations

Zone 1 · Northeast

Regional Captain: Denise DiFabio

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Businesses & venues

Burtzland Outfitters

Alliance, OH 44601

2330 S. Mahoning Avenue

Monday- Friday | 10 AM – 6 PM | Saturday | 10 AM – 4 PM | Closed Sunday

For more info, check us out on Facebook and at www.burtzland.com

Business Office

Massillon, OH 44646

711 Lincolnway E

Monday – Friday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Call for Appointment

Clear Sky Realty

Canton, OH 44707

202 49th Street SE

Monday – Friday | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Drifterz LLC

Massillon, OH 44647

1008 Duncan St SW

Monday – Friday | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Shady Rest Army Navy Garrison 1988

Beach City, OH 44608

6166 SR 250

Friday Nights | 8:00 - 10:00 PM | Mondays Weather Permitting |

Private club, ring buzzer and door will open Look for the sign.

Studio Milini

Massillon, OH 44646

126 8th St NE

Tuesday – Friday | 9 AM – 5 PM | Saturday | 9 AM – 3 PM

By appointment

Superior Housing Renterpicks

Alliance, OH 44601

1007 S Arch

MONDAY – FRIDAY | 11:15am – 4:30pm

West Park Tavern

Massillon, OH 44647

1017 6th Street SW

Sunday – Tuesday | 1 PM – 6 PM

Local volunteers

Mobile Signing Station

Mobile circulator

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Mobile Signing Station

Mobile circulator

Will set up a signing station at your business or event. Call to arrange a place and time. Groups only please.

Private Residence

Massillon, OH 44646

Private residence

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Stark County at a glance

Population: 374,091
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.: $186,400
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.): 72.06%
Median income: $65,740
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.: 79,609
School districts: 17
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

1 1

2015: 1 filed

2015: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

15 2015

0 0

2016: 0 filed

2016: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

16 2016

1 1

2017: 1 filed

2017: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

17 2017

0 0

2018: 0 filed

2018: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

18 2018

0 0

2019: 0 filed

2019: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

19 2019

0 0

2020: 0 filed

2020: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

20 2020

0 0

2021: 0 filed

2021: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

21 2021

2 2

2022: 2 filed

2022: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

22 2022

0 0

2023: 0 filed

2023: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

23 2023

0 0

2024: 0 filed

2024: lost-to-sale data still being gathered

24 2024

0 0

2025: 0 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 Stark 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.	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
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	49	8	127	45	93	11	0	1	1
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.	$122,900	$124,000	$127,100	$130,700	$134,300	$139,000	$146,100	$164,900	$177,700	$186,400	—
% 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.	—	1%	2%	3%	3%	3%	5%	13%	8%	5%	—
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.)	91.41%	86.52%	84.68%	92.98%	85.6%	79.46%	84.77%	74.92%	72.06%	—	—

What This Data Means

Since 2015, 339 Stark 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 Stark County have increased by 0% since 2015.

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About this data: Stark County sells delinquent tax liens to third-party investors through a Tax Lien Certificate Sale program; investors, not the Treasurer, file the large majority of resulting foreclosures. Only 4 cases were filed directly by the Stark County Treasurer, 2015–2025. Tax Ease Ohio filed 335 cases directly over the same period. NAR Ohio LLC, Plymouth Park Tax Services, and Propel Financial were checked and found to have filed none as plaintiff. 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: Stark County Justice Information System . 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.