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Falls Township
Falls Township is in Muskingum County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,198 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 West Muskingum Local.
What a home in Falls Township pays
$1,198 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,396 a year; at $300,000, about $3,594. 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 Muskingum County, the same home pays $1,106 on average, so a home in Falls Township pays 8% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 22.95 | 62% |
| The county | 7.16 | 19% |
| Falls Township | 5.12 | 14% |
| The career centre | 1.93 | 5% |
| All | 37.16 | 100% |
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Shares of the 37.16 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Falls 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 Falls Township
38% of the homes their owners live in, in Falls Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 1,100 homes, give or take 7 points.
Muskingum 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
Falls Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Falls Township charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.750 |
| 2013 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.506 |
| 2023 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.473 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.394 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: West Muskingum Local’s levies, every levy in Muskingum County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Falls Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
No body that taxes homes in Falls Township has a tax issue on this ballot, on the Ohio Secretary of State’s list as of September 18, 2026.
Matched from who levies on Falls 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 Muskingum County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Falls 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.
West Muskingum Local 75% of Falls Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $713 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 270th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $11,186 per student to run its schools.
Zanesville City 23% of Falls Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $703 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 548th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $20,449 per student to run its schools.
Tri-Valley Local 3% of Falls Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $589 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 206th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,204 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: Muskingum County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Muskingum 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.