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Deerfield Township
Deerfield Township is in Portage County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,149 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 3 school districts, most of them in Southeast Local.
What a home in Deerfield Township pays
$1,149 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,299 a year; at $300,000, about $3,448. 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 Portage County, the same home pays $1,467 on average, so a home in Deerfield Township pays 22% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 21.70 | 61% |
| The county | 6.69 | 19% |
| Deerfield Township | 3.58 | 10% |
| The library | 0.65 | 2% |
| Parks | 0.75 | 2% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 5% |
| Others | 0.20 | 1% |
| All | 35.32 | 100% |
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Shares of the 35.32 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Deerfield Township’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 Deerfield Township
Too few homes in Deerfield Township for the Census survey to measure how many of their owners are 65 or older.
Portage County: 34% · 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.
The Census counts a township as a whole, so its figure can take in a village inside it, whose homes have a page of their own.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Deerfield Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Deerfield Township charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.075 |
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.875 |
| 2012 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.840 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.787 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Southeast Local’s levies, every levy in Portage County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Deerfield Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Deerfield Township: 4 on this ballot.
Deerfield Township
- Renewal and increase property tax, 1.75 mills · Fire & EMS
Its school districts
- West Branch Local: New property tax, 1 mill · School buildings · part of Deerfield Township only
Portage County and its boards
- Portage County: Renewal property tax, 0.3 mills · Mental health
- Portage County Department of Job & Family Services: New property tax, 0.4 mills · Children's services
Matched from who levies on Deerfield Township’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 Portage County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Deerfield Township’s school districts
Its homes are in 3 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Southeast Local 93% of Deerfield Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $673 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 385th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,261 per student to run its schools.
West Branch Local 4% of Deerfield Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $521 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 129th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,519 per student to run its schools.
Waterloo Local 3% of Deerfield Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $632 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 444th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,258 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: Portage County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Portage 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.