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Garfield Heights
Garfield Heights is in Cuyahoga County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $2,589 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 2 school districts, most of them in Garfield Heights City Schools.
What a home in Garfield Heights pays
$2,589 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $5,178 a year; at $300,000, about $7,767. 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 Cuyahoga County, the same home pays $2,142 on average, so a home in Garfield Heights pays 21% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 33.95 | 46% |
| The county | 8.87 | 12% |
| Garfield Heights | 22.57 | 30% |
| The library | 2.03 | 3% |
| Parks | 2.10 | 3% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 2% |
| The community college | 3.21 | 4% |
| Others | 0.06 | 0% |
| All | 74.54 | 100% |
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Shares of the 74.54 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Garfield Heights’ 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 Garfield Heights
33% of the homes their owners live in, in Garfield Heights, belong to someone 65 or older — about 2,300 homes, give or take 3 points.
Cuyahoga County: 36% · 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 Garfield Heights are worth
$138,979 Zillow’s typical home value, +3.9% 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: Cuyahoga County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Garfield Heights →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Garfield Heights’ own levies
On the same bill, what Garfield Heights charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Police & Fire Oper | 12.005 |
| 2014 | Charter/Police&Fire | 3.300 |
| Never | Sinking Fund And Bond Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 2.188 |
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Current Expense | 1.540 |
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Street Lighting | 1.006 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.998 |
| 1976 or earlier | Permanent improvement | 0.875 |
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Fireman'S Fund | 0.263 |
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Police Pension | 0.263 |
| 1976 or earlier | Charter/Recreational | 0.131 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Garfield Heights City Schools’ levies, every levy in Cuyahoga County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Garfield Heights on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Garfield Heights: 3 on this ballot.
Its school districts
- Garfield Heights City Schools: Renewal property tax, 7.74 mills · Schools · part of Garfield Heights only
Cuyahoga County and its boards
- Cuyahoga County: New property tax, 2.25 mills · Developmental disabilities
- Cuyahoga County: Renewal and increase property tax, 7.2 mills · Social services
Matched from who levies on Garfield Heights’ 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 Cuyahoga County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Garfield Heights’ school districts
Its homes are in 2 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Garfield Heights City Schools 94% of Garfield Heights’ home value
Its school levies cost a home about $1,176 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 601st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $22,253 per student to run its schools.
Cleveland Municipal 6% of Garfield Heights’ home value
Its school levies cost a home about $1,272 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 596th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $25,694 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: Cuyahoga County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Cuyahoga 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.