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Franklin Township
Franklin Township is in Mercer County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,326 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 Celina City.
What a home in Franklin Township pays
$1,326 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,652 a year; at $300,000, about $3,978. 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 Mercer County, the same home pays $1,158 on average, so a home in Franklin Township pays 14% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 29.45 | 72% |
| The county | 5.41 | 13% |
| Franklin Township and Mercer County Joint Ambulance Dist | 4.61 | 11% |
| The library | 0.24 | 1% |
| The career centre | 0.60 | 1% |
| Others | 0.41 | 1% |
| All | 40.71 | 100% |
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Shares of the 40.71 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Franklin 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 Franklin Township
36% of the homes their owners live in, in Franklin Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 400 homes, give or take 9 points.
Mercer County: 32% · 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
What Franklin Township and Mercer County Joint Ambulance Dist levy
On the same bill, what Franklin Township and Mercer County Joint Ambulance Dist charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Franklin Township 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 | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.750 |
| 2010 | Fire | 0.789 |
| 2008 | Fire Equipment | 0.501 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.438 |
| 2015 | Fire | 0.066 |
| 2013 | Fire Equipment | 0.063 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ambulance & Ems | 1.000 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Celina City’s levies, every levy in Mercer County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Franklin Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
No body that taxes homes in Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Mercer County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Franklin 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.
Celina City 87% of Franklin Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $932 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 291st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,147 per student to run its schools.
Marion Local 8% of Franklin Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $795 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 2nd of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $11,941 per student to run its schools.
New Bremen Local 3% of Franklin Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $771 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 12th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,704 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: Mercer County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Mercer 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.