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Freedom Township
Freedom Township is in Portage County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,131 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the James A Garfield Local school district.
What a home in Freedom Township pays
$1,131 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,263 a year; at $300,000, about $3,394. 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 Freedom Township pays 23% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 17.50 | 51% |
| The county | 6.69 | 19% |
| Community Emergency Medical Serv. and Freedom Township and G/f/n Joint Fire District | 6.84 | 20% |
| The library | 0.65 | 2% |
| Parks | 0.75 | 2% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 5% |
| Others | 0.20 | 1% |
| All | 34.39 | 100% |
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Shares of the 34.39 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Freedom 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 Freedom Township
25% of the homes their owners live in, in Freedom Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 200 homes, give or take 8 points.
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
What Freedom Township and G/f/n Joint Fire District and Community Emergency Medical Serv. levy
On the same bill, what Freedom Township and G/f/n Joint Fire District and Community Emergency Medical Serv. charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Freedom 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 | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.750 |
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.525 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Fire | 2.424 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ambulance & E.M.S | 2.144 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: James A Garfield 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.
Freedom Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Freedom Township: 2 on this ballot.
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 Freedom 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
Freedom Township’s school district
James A Garfield Local
Its school levies cost a home about $540 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 248th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,016 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.