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South Solon
South Solon is in Madison County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,088 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Madison-Plains Local school district.
What a home in South Solon pays
$1,088 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,177 a year; at $300,000, about $3,265. 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 Madison County, the same home pays $1,237 on average, so a home in South Solon pays 12% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 18.13 | 56% |
| The county | 5.97 | 18% |
| South Solon and Sterling Joint Ambulance District and Stokes Township | 6.89 | 21% |
| The career centre | 1.57 | 5% |
| All | 32.57 | 100% |
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Shares of the 32.57 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of South Solon’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 South Solon
26% of the homes their owners live in, in South Solon, belong to someone 65 or older — about 27 homes, give or take 5 points.
Madison County: 30% · 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 South Solon are worth
$310,454 Zillow’s typical home value, +7.5% 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: Madison County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in South Solon →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What South Solon and Sterling Joint Ambulance District and Stokes Township levy
On the same bill, what South Solon and Sterling Joint Ambulance District and Stokes Township charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in South Solon pays both: a township’s fire, road or cemetery levies can reach the town’s homes too.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Current expense | 0.565 |
| 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 | Current expense | 1.500 |
| 2024 | Current expense | 1.500 |
| 2012 | Current expense | 0.896 |
| 2001 | Current expense | 0.334 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.875 |
| 2013 | Fire | 0.409 |
| 2016 | Fire | 0.262 |
| 2019 | Cemetery | 0.197 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Madison-Plains Local’s levies, every levy in Madison County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
South Solon on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in South Solon: 1 on this ballot.
Its library, fire, park and other districts
- Sterling Joint Ambulance District: Renewal property tax, 1.8 mills · General operating
Matched from who levies on South Solon’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 Madison County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
South Solon’s school district
Madison-Plains Local
Its school levies cost a home about $593 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 296th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,565 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: Madison County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Madison 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.