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Turtle Creek Township
Turtle Creek Township is in Shelby County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,087 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 3 school districts, most of them in Hardin-Houston Local.
What a home in Turtle Creek Township pays
$1,087 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,173 a year; at $300,000, about $3,260. 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 Shelby County, the same home pays $1,099 on average, so a home in Turtle Creek Township pays about the same. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 20.58 | 62% |
| The county | 4.45 | 13% |
| Loramie Ambulance District and Loramie Fire District and Turtle Creek Township | 5.97 | 18% |
| The career centre | 2.15 | 6% |
| Others | 0.25 | 1% |
| All | 33.40 | 100% |
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Shares of the 33.40 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Turtle Creek Township’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 Turtle Creek Township
38% of the homes their owners live in, in Turtle Creek Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 150 homes, give or take 15 points.
Shelby County: 32% · 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.
The Census counts a township as a whole, so its figure can take in a village inside it, whose homes have a page of their own.
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
What Turtle Creek Township and Loramie Ambulance District and Loramie Fire District levy
On the same bill, what Turtle Creek Township and Loramie Ambulance District and Loramie Fire District charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Turtle Creek Township 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 | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.400 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.438 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Current expense | 1.094 |
| 2019 | Current expense | 1.042 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Current expense | 1.999 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Hardin-Houston Local’s levies, every levy in Shelby County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Turtle Creek Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Turtle Creek Township: 2 on this ballot.
Its library, fire, park and other districts
- Loramie Fire District: Renewal property tax, 2 mills · Fire & EMS
- Loramie Township Houston Fire District: Renewal property tax, 1 mill · Fire & EMS
Matched from who levies on Turtle Creek Township’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 Shelby County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Turtle Creek Township’s school districts
Its homes are in 3 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Hardin-Houston Local 65% of Turtle Creek Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $638 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 141st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,148 per student to run its schools.
Anna Local 20% of Turtle Creek Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $558 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 60th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $13,932 per student to run its schools.
Fort Loramie Local 15% of Turtle Creek Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $640 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 7th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,572 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: Shelby County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Shelby 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.