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Pickerington
Pickerington is in Fairfield County, with part of it in Franklin County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,587 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Pickerington Local school district.
What a home in Pickerington pays
$1,587 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $3,174 a year; at $300,000, about $4,761. 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 Pickerington pays 19% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 24.42 | 53% |
| The county | 6.84 | 15% |
| Pickerington and Violet Township | 11.97 | 26% |
| The library | 0.57 | 1% |
| Parks | 0.17 | 0% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 4% |
| All | 45.71 | 100% |
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Shares of the 45.71 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Pickerington’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 Pickerington
21% of the homes their owners live in, in Pickerington, belong to someone 65 or older — about 1,300 homes, give or take 4 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.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Pickerington are worth
$418,373 Zillow’s typical home value, +0.9% 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: Fairfield County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Pickerington →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Pickerington and Violet Township levy
On the same bill, what Pickerington and Violet Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Pickerington pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.663 |
| 2000 | Police | 1.654 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.350 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Fire & E.M.S | 2.866 |
| 2014 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.823 |
| 2002 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.432 |
| 1995 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.602 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.525 |
| 1988 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.421 |
| 1985 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.246 |
| 1990 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.221 |
| 2013 | Senior Citizens | 0.084 |
| 1993 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.080 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Pickerington Local’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.
Pickerington on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Pickerington: 4 on this ballot.
A township on its bills
- Madison Township: New property tax, 1.99 mills · Police · part of Pickerington only
- Madison Township: New property tax, 4.89 mills · Fire & EMS · part of Pickerington only
Its school districts
- Pickerington Local: New income tax, 0.75% · Schools · part of Pickerington only
Its library, fire, park and other districts
- Pickerington Library: New property tax, 1.5 mills · Library · part of Pickerington only
Matched from who levies on Pickerington’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
Pickerington’s school district
Pickerington Local
Its school levies cost a home about $849 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 218th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,756 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.