Ese Odo is a Local Government Area in Ondo State, Nigeria, populated by the Ijaw (Izon) ethnic sub groups of the Western Apoi tribe and the Arogbo tribe.

[1] Its headquarters are in the town of Igbekebo and its one of the LGA with crude oil in Ondo State.

The biggest towns within this Local Government Area are Kiribo,Arogbo,Ukparama(Akpata,Opuba,Ajapa,Ukpe,Bolowou), Igbobini, Igbotu,and Igbekebo.

Ese-Odo being mainly an Ijaw(Izon) ethnic subgroup in Ondo State, makes it the only local government that are Ijoid in the whole of South-West, as most falls into the South-South geo-political groupings in Nigeria.

It has an area of 762 km2 and a population of 154,978 at the 2006 census and its one of the oil producing LGA in the State.