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Rochester
Rochester is in Lorain County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,274 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 New London Local.
What a home in Rochester pays
$1,274 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,549 a year; at $300,000, about $3,823. 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 Lorain County, the same home pays $1,568 on average, so a home in Rochester pays 19% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 18.24 | 45% |
| The county | 9.16 | 23% |
| Rochester and Rochester Township and South Lorain Ambulance District | 7.75 | 19% |
| The library | 0.67 | 2% |
| The career centre | 4.31 | 11% |
| Others | 0.30 | 1% |
| All | 40.44 | 100% |
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Shares of the 40.44 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Rochester’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 Rochester
Too few homes in Rochester for the Census survey to measure how many of their owners are 65 or older.
Lorain County: 35% · 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.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Rochester and Rochester Township and South Lorain Ambulance District levy
On the same bill, what Rochester and Rochester Township and South Lorain Ambulance District charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Rochester 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 | 2.625 |
| 2024 | Current expense | 1.839 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Fire & E.M.S | 0.891 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.787 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Current expense | 1.459 |
| 2016 | Current expense | 0.148 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: New London Local’s levies, every levy in Lorain County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Rochester on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Rochester: 3 on this ballot.
Lorain County and its boards
- Lorain County: New property tax, 0.45 mills · Children's services
Its library, fire, park and other districts
- Herrick Memorial Library: Renewal property tax, 1.25 mills · Library · part of Rochester only
- Lorain County General Health District: Renewal property tax, 0.5 mills · General operating
Matched from who levies on Rochester’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 Lorain County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Rochester’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.
New London Local 86% of Rochester’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $546 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 414th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $24,287 per student to run its schools.
Wellington Exempted Village 14% of Rochester’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $664 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 510th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 1 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,586 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: Lorain County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Lorain 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.