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Galena
Galena is in Delaware County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,347 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Big Walnut Local school district.
What a home in Galena pays
$1,347 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,694 a year; at $300,000, about $4,041. 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 Delaware County, the same home pays $1,746 on average, so a home in Galena pays 23% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 26.52 | 64% |
| The county | 3.21 | 8% |
| Berkshire Township and Bst And G Fire Dept. and Delaware County 9-1-1 District and Galena | 6.73 | 16% |
| The library | 0.99 | 2% |
| Parks | 0.78 | 2% |
| The career centre | 1.90 | 5% |
| Others | 1.17 | 3% |
| All | 41.30 | 100% |
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Shares of the 41.30 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Galena’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 Galena
20% of the homes their owners live in, in Galena, belong to someone 65 or older — about 93 homes, give or take 7 points.
Delaware County: 26% · 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.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Galena are worth
$648,411 Zillow’s typical home value, +2.1% in a year
What a home is taxed on is the county’s value for it, which moves when the county resets values, not every month: Delaware County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Galena →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Galena and Bst And G Fire Dept. and Berkshire Township and Delaware County 9-1-1 District levy
On the same bill, what Galena and Bst And G Fire Dept. and Berkshire Township and Delaware County 9-1-1 District charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Galena pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Current expense | 1.497 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.488 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Fire | 1.318 |
| 2017 | Fire | 1.010 |
| 2024 | Bond repayment | 0.350 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.700 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9-1-1 System | 0.224 |
| 2016 | 9-1-1-System | 0.107 |
| 2021 | 9-1-1-System | 0.036 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Big Walnut Local’s levies, every levy in Delaware County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Galena on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Galena: 5 on this ballot.
Galena
- New property tax, 2 mills · General operating
Delaware County and its boards
- Delaware County: New property tax, 1.8 mills · Developmental disabilities
- Delaware Area Career Center: Renewal and decrease property tax, 0.35 mills · Buildings
- Delaware County Regional Transit Authority: New sales tax, 0.2% · Transit
- Delaware-Morrow Health & Recovery Services Board: Renewal and increase property tax, 2 mills · General operating
Matched from who levies on Galena’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 Delaware County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Galena’s school district
Big Walnut Local
Its school levies cost a home about $840 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 133rd of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,037 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: Delaware County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Delaware 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.