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Ohio water hardness

3 Ohio systems with a hardness figure read from an official page, each on the retrieval date printed against it below. This is not a list of every utility in Ohio; it is the list of those whose published figure has been verified here.

Soft Soft 0–60

Moderately hard Moderate 61–120

Hard Hard 121–180

Very hard Very hard 181+

Columbus, OH 120 mg/L 7 gpg Moderately hard
Cleveland, OH 120 mg/L 7 gpg Moderately hard
Cincinnati, OH 133 mg/L 7.8 gpg Hard

mg/L as calcium carbonate. Each classification band is drawn the same width, so the axis is not linear in mg/L.

Ohio systems on the USGS classification. Each row links to that system's published figure, report year and conversion. Grains per gallon are the utility's own figure where it published one, and our conversion at 17.1 mg/L per grain where it did not.

Cincinnati, OH — Greater Cincinnati Water Works 133 mg/L (7.8 gpg) Hard Published range 126–140 mg/L. 2025 GCWW Water Quality Report. Retrieved 2026-10-17.
Columbus, OH — City of Columbus Division of Water 120 mg/L (7 gpg) Moderately hard City of Columbus, “Water Hardness” water facts page. Retrieved 2026-10-17.
Cleveland, OH — Cleveland Water 120 mg/L (7 gpg) Moderately hard Cleveland Water, “What is Hard Water and Should You Worry About It?”, published 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2026-10-17.

If your Ohio system is not above

Only 3 Ohio systems have been transcribed here, so most Ohio readers will not find theirs. Find the water system that serves you walks through the free EPA search that names your system and the EPA lookup that finds its annual report, which is the document that carries a hardness figure for your water. There is no ZIP-code hardness figure on this site, and that page explains why a ZIP code cannot carry one honestly: a ZIP code is a postal boundary and a water system is a pipe network, and they do not line up.

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