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Van Buren Township
Van Buren Township is in Darke County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,142 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 Arcanum-Butler Local.
What a home in Van Buren Township pays
$1,142 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,283 a year; at $300,000, about $3,425. 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 Darke County, the same home pays $1,113 on average, so a home in Van Buren Township pays 3% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 21.39 | 61% |
| The county | 4.05 | 12% |
| Arcanum Joint Ambulance Dist. and Van Buren Township | 5.53 | 16% |
| The library | 0.52 | 1% |
| Parks | 0.66 | 2% |
| The career centre | 2.69 | 8% |
| Others | 0.25 | 1% |
| All | 35.08 | 100% |
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Shares of the 35.08 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of Van Buren 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 Van Buren Township
Too few homes in Van Buren Township for the Census survey to measure how many of their owners are 65 or older.
Darke County: 36% · 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 Van Buren Township and Arcanum Joint Ambulance Dist. levy
On the same bill, what Van Buren Township and Arcanum Joint Ambulance Dist. charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in Van Buren 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 | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.837 |
| 2022 | Fire | 0.377 |
| 2016 | Cemetery | 0.376 |
| 2016 | Road & Bridge | 0.376 |
| 1985 | Fire | 0.148 |
| 1978 | Fire | 0.140 |
| 1993 | Fire | 0.126 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Current expense | 1.267 |
| 1998 | Current expense | 0.518 |
| 1989 | Current expense | 0.362 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Arcanum-Butler Local’s levies, every levy in Darke County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
Van Buren Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in Van Buren Township: 1 on this ballot.
Its school districts
- Franklin Monroe Local: New income tax, 1.25% · Schools · part of Van Buren Township only
Matched from who levies on Van Buren 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 Darke County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Van Buren 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.
Arcanum-Butler Local 53% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $673 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 108th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $13,860 per student to run its schools.
Franklin Monroe Local 41% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $676 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 174th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $17,240 per student to run its schools.
Greenville City 6% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $736 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 446th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,624 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: Darke County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Darke 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.