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Sugar Bush Knolls
Sugar Bush Knolls is in Portage County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,728 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in the Kent City school district.
What a home in Sugar Bush Knolls pays
$1,728 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $3,457 a year; at $300,000, about $5,185. 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 Portage County, the same home pays $1,467 on average, so a home in Sugar Bush Knolls pays 18% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 30.98 | 63% |
| The county | 6.69 | 14% |
| Sugar Bush Knolls | 9.83 | 20% |
| The library | 0.93 | 2% |
| Parks | 0.75 | 2% |
| Others | 0.20 | 0% |
| All | 49.38 | 100% |
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Shares of the 49.38 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Sugar Bush Knolls’ 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 Sugar Bush Knolls
45% of the homes their owners live in, in Sugar Bush Knolls, belong to someone 65 or older — about 47 homes, give or take 10 points.
Portage 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 Sugar Bush Knolls are worth
$438,178 Zillow’s typical home value, +3.7% 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: Portage County’s home values set the two side by side. Home prices and rents in Sugar Bush Knolls →
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Sugar Bush Knolls’ own levies
On the same bill, what Sugar Bush Knolls charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Current expense | 6.155 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 3.675 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Kent City’s levies, every levy in Portage County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Sugar Bush Knolls on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Sugar Bush Knolls: 2 on this ballot.
Portage County and its boards
- Portage County: Renewal property tax, 0.3 mills · Mental health
- Portage County Department of Job & Family Services: New property tax, 0.4 mills · Children's services
Matched from who levies on Sugar Bush Knolls’ 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 Portage County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Sugar Bush Knolls’ school district
Kent City
Its school levies cost a home about $1,084 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 241st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $21,466 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: Portage County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Portage 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.