Two bodies, two vocabularies. The county writes about the parcel; the city writes about what happens on it.
The county's words
- Auditor. Hamilton County's Auditor keeps the parcel record — the value, the class, the acreage and the transfers. Ohio's equivalent of an Assessor, and the report names it rather than borrowing California's word.
- Market value. The county's figure for tax purposes, split into land and improvement. Set on a reappraisal cycle, not by the last sale, and not a valuation.
- Board of revision. Where a value has been formally contested. A flagged parcel's figure is what the roll holds today, not necessarily what it will hold after.
- Class. A numeric land-use code. The county groups them by the hundred: 400s commercial, 500s residential, 600s publicly owned, 300s industrial, 100s agricultural, with a separate code for vacant land in each.
- Abatement. A value exempted from taxation. The taxable figure alone can make a building look a fraction of its worth, which is why the report shows the amounts.
The city's words
- Barricading. An order to board a building up. Not a complaint about a building — the record that somebody was sent to close one, with the date.
- STARS. The crime categories the police department has reported under since 3 June 2024. The categories before that date are a different set and are counted separately.
- Vacated Building Maintenance Licence. A licence for keeping an empty building. A small register, and one almost no city keeps.
- Code enforcement. A case the city opened. It files buildings with residences, commercial buildings and zoning uses under separate names, so the report prints the type rather than summing them.
- Flood stage. Feet of Ohio River level. The county maps the water separately at 56 through 61 feet, so the question is not whether an address floods but at what stage.
Counts run 7 September 2026.