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Berlin Heights
Berlin Heights is in Erie County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,526 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Edison Local (formerly Berlin-Milan) school district.
What a home in Berlin Heights pays
$1,526 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $3,053 a year; at $300,000, about $4,579. That is the whole property tax bill on a home its owner lives in, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits, before the homestead exemption.
Across Erie County, the same home pays $1,300 on average, so a home in Berlin Heights pays 17% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 24.66 | 54% |
| The county | 3.00 | 7% |
| Berlin Heights and Berlin Township | 12.53 | 27% |
| The library | 0.38 | 1% |
| The career centre | 4.31 | 9% |
| Others | 0.92 | 2% |
| All | 45.80 | 100% |
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Shares of the 45.80 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Berlin Heights’ homes; a street on another bill can pay a little more or less. A home’s value is the county’s value for it, not a sale price. Check your own bill.
Homeowners 65 and over in Berlin Heights
25% of the homes their owners live in, in Berlin Heights, belong to someone 65 or older — about 60 homes, give or take 9 points.
Erie County: 37% · Ohio: 33%
Owners who are 65 or older, or disabled, can claim Ohio’s homestead exemption, which takes part of a home’s value off the bill; most must have an income under the state’s limit. From the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates (table B25007, owner-occupied homes by the age of the householder). A survey, so every figure has a margin of error.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Berlin Heights are worth
$273,397 Zillow’s typical home value, +2.5% in a year
What a home is taxed on is the county’s value for it, which moves when the county resets values, not every month: Erie County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Berlin Heights →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Berlin Heights and Berlin Township levy
On the same bill, what Berlin Heights and Berlin Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Berlin Heights pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Police | 3.260 |
| 2017 | Current expense | 2.609 |
| 2004 | Current expense | 1.700 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.312 |
| 2015 | Current expense | 1.304 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.312 |
| 2004 | Fire Apparatus | 0.517 |
| 2006 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.517 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Edison Local (formerly Berlin-Milan)’s levies, every levy in Erie County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Berlin Heights on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Berlin Heights: 4 on this ballot.
Berlin Heights
- Renewal property tax, 4 mills · General operating
A township on its bills
- Berlin Township: Renewal property tax, 1 mill · Fire & EMS
- Berlin Township: Renewal property tax, 1 mill · Roads
Erie County and its boards
- Erie County: Renewal property tax, 0.7 mills · Mental health
Matched from who levies on Berlin Heights’ tax bills, in the state’s levy file, to who asks on the Secretary of State’s list. Which issues reach a particular home depends on its own bill. Every tax issue on the ballot in Erie County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Berlin Heights’ school district
Edison Local (formerly Berlin-Milan)
Its school levies cost a home about $786 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 180th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,343 per student to run its schools.
The state’s own figures: the Department of Taxation’s certified tax rates, the School Report Card and the District Profile Report. Test scores follow family income closely; Progress follows it much less.
5Unpaid & foreclosures
What goes unpaid, and cases filed in court
Unpaid property tax and foreclosure cases are counted by county: Erie County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Erie County resets values next →
This is an estimate built from public records — not tax, legal or financial advice, and not an appraisal. Only your county’s own statement is authoritative about your bill. If you’re thinking of challenging your value, confirm the details with your county’s Board of Revision or a property-tax professional. The full terms.