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Hocking Township
Hocking Township is in Fairfield County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,141 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 Lancaster City.
What a home in Hocking Township pays
$1,141 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,283 a year; at $300,000, about $3,424. 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 Fairfield County, the same home pays $1,339 on average, so a home in Hocking Township pays 15% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 22.26 | 64% |
| The county | 6.84 | 20% |
| Hocking Township | 5.11 | 15% |
| The library | 0.38 | 1% |
| Parks | 0.17 | 0% |
| All | 34.76 | 100% |
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Shares of the 34.76 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Hocking 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 Hocking Township
37% of the homes their owners live in, in Hocking Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 420 homes, give or take 9 points.
Fairfield County: 29% · 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
Hocking Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Hocking Township charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Road & Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.750 |
| 2016 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.150 |
| 2020 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.050 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.613 |
| 2001 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.549 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Lancaster City’s levies, every levy in Fairfield County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Hocking Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
No body that taxes homes in Hocking 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 Hocking 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 Fairfield County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Hocking Township’s 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.
Lancaster City 70% of Hocking Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $704 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 445th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,759 per student to run its schools.
Amanda-Clearcreek Local 30% of Hocking Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $530 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 495th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,693 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: Fairfield County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Fairfield 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.