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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is in Knox County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,212 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Mount Vernon City school district.
What a home in Mount Vernon pays
$1,212 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,424 a year; at $300,000, about $3,637. 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 Knox County, the same home pays $1,247 on average, so a home in Mount Vernon pays 3% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 25.29 | 67% |
| The county | 7.28 | 19% |
| Mount Vernon | 2.80 | 7% |
| The library | 0.57 | 2% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 5% |
| All | 37.69 | 100% |
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Shares of the 37.69 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Mount Vernon’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 Mount Vernon
39% of the homes their owners live in, in Mount Vernon, belong to someone 65 or older — about 1,500 homes, give or take 5 points.
Knox 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.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Mount Vernon are worth
$248,734 Zillow’s typical home value, +4.7% 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: Knox County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Mount Vernon →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Mount Vernon’s own levies
On the same bill, what Mount Vernon charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.663 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.613 |
| Never | Fire Pension Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.263 |
| Never | Police Pension Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.263 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Mount Vernon City’s levies, every levy in Knox County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Mount Vernon on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Mount Vernon: 4 on this ballot.
A township on its bills
- Monroe Township: Renewal and increase property tax, 5 mills · Fire & EMS · part of Mount Vernon only
- Pleasant Township: Renewal property tax, 2 mills · Roads · part of Mount Vernon only
Its school districts
- Mount Vernon City: New income tax, 1% · Schools
Knox County and its boards
Matched from who levies on Mount Vernon’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 Knox County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Mount Vernon’s school district
Mount Vernon City
Its school levies cost a home about $792 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 187th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,203 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: Knox County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Knox 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.