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Canal Winchester
Canal Winchester is in Franklin County, with part of it in Fairfield County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,814 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 2 school districts, most of them in Canal Winchester Local.
What a home in Canal Winchester pays
$1,814 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $3,628 a year; at $300,000, about $5,442. 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 Franklin County, the same home pays $1,841 on average, so a home in Canal Winchester pays about the same. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 30.95 | 56% |
| The county | 10.52 | 19% |
| Canal Winchester and Madison Township | 9.77 | 18% |
| The library | 2.31 | 4% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 3% |
| The community college | 0.32 | 1% |
| All | 55.61 | 100% |
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Shares of the 55.61 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Canal Winchester’s 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 Canal Winchester
32% of the homes their owners live in, in Canal Winchester, belong to someone 65 or older — about 1,100 homes, give or take 8 points.
Franklin County: 28% · 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.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Canal Winchester and Madison Township levy
On the same bill, what Canal Winchester and Madison Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Canal Winchester pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.663 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.087 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Fire | 2.568 |
| 2002 | Fire | 1.588 |
| 1992 | Fire | 0.713 |
| 1988 | Fire | 0.630 |
| 2011 | Police | 0.556 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.525 |
| 1982 | Fire | 0.491 |
| 1980 | Police | 0.432 |
| 1986 | Police | 0.181 |
| 1976 or earlier | Fire | 0.165 |
| 1976 or earlier | Police | 0.114 |
| 1976 or earlier | Fire | 0.051 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Canal Winchester Local’s levies, every levy in Franklin County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Canal Winchester on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Canal Winchester: 4 on this ballot.
A township on its bills
- Madison Township: New property tax, 1.99 mills · Police · part of Canal Winchester only
- Madison Township: New property tax, 4.89 mills · Fire & EMS · part of Canal Winchester only
Its school districts
- Pickerington Local: New income tax, 0.75% · Schools · part of Canal Winchester only
Its library, fire, park and other districts
- Pickerington Library: New property tax, 1.5 mills · Library · part of Canal Winchester only
Matched from who levies on Canal Winchester’s 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 Franklin County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Canal Winchester’s school districts
Its homes are in 2 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Canal Winchester Local 95% of Canal Winchester’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $966 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 328th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,552 per student to run its schools.
Bloom-Carroll Local 5% of Canal Winchester’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $767 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 223rd of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $12,603 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: Franklin County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Franklin 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.