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Lucas

Lucas is in Richland County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,364 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Lucas Local school district.

1Your bill

What is charged here, and who gets it

What a home here paysHomeowners 65 and over

What a home in Lucas pays

$1,364 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025

A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,729 a year; at $300,000, about $4,093. 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 Richland County, the same home pays $1,540 on average, so a home in Lucas pays 11% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.

Who charges it
WhoMills on a home Share of the rate
Schools 24.69 60%
The county 7.47 18%
Lucas and Monroe Township 4.27 10%
The library 2.21 5%
The career centre 1.89 5%
Others 0.79 2%
All 41.32100%

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Shares of the 41.32 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Lucas’ 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 Lucas

41% of the homes their owners live in, in Lucas, belong to someone 65 or older — about 56 homes, give or take 10 points.

Richland County: 37% · 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 Lucas are worth

$262,686 Zillow’s typical home value, +5.3% 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: Richland County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Lucas →

3Levies & the ballot

Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot

Its own leviesOn the ballot

What Lucas and Monroe Township levy

On the same bill, what Lucas and Monroe Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Lucas pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.

Lucas: 1.75 mills
First approvedPurpose Mills on a home
Never Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it 1.750

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Monroe Township: 2.52 mills
First approvedPurpose Mills on a home
2001 Fire 1.149
Never Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it 0.700
2001 Emergency 0.459
Never Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it 0.175
1985 Park 0.036

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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Lucas Local’s levies, every levy in Richland County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.

Lucas on the November 3, 2026 ballot

Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Lucas: 2 on this ballot.

Lucas

A township on its bills

Matched from who levies on Lucas’ 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 Richland County →

4Schools

Scores, spending and budgets

Lucas’ school district

Lucas Local

Its school levies cost a home about $782 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 210th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $19,892 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: Richland County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →

6Reappraisals

When values reset next

Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Richland 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.