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Highland Township
Highland Township is in Defiance County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,322 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Ayersville Local school district.
What a home in Highland Township pays
$1,322 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,645 a year; at $300,000, about $3,967. 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 Defiance County, the same home pays $1,211 on average, so a home in Highland Township pays 9% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 24.02 | 64% |
| The county | 6.82 | 18% |
| Highland Township | 3.73 | 10% |
| The library | 0.38 | 1% |
| The career centre | 2.15 | 6% |
| Others | 0.68 | 2% |
| All | 37.78 | 100% |
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Shares of the 37.78 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Highland 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 Highland Township
31% of the homes their owners live in, in Highland Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 210 homes, give or take 14 points.
Defiance 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
Highland Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Highland 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 | 1.488 |
| 2003 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.313 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.438 |
| 1982 | Road & Bridge | 0.134 |
| 1976 or earlier | Fire | 0.113 |
| 1976 or earlier | Road & Bridge | 0.113 |
| 1976 or earlier | Road & Bridge | 0.075 |
| 1976 or earlier | Fire | 0.056 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Ayersville Local’s levies, every levy in Defiance County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Highland Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Highland Township: 2 on this ballot.
Its school districts
Defiance County and its boards
Matched from who levies on Highland 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 Defiance County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Highland Township’s school district
Ayersville Local
Its school levies cost a home about $841 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 77th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,797 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: Defiance County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Defiance 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.