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Van Buren Township
Van Buren Township is in Shelby County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $976 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 4 school districts, most of them in Anna Local.
What a home in Van Buren Township pays
$976 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $1,951 a year; at $300,000, about $2,927. 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 Van Buren Township pays 11% less. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 18.09 | 60% |
| The county | 4.45 | 15% |
| Van Buren Township | 5.10 | 17% |
| The career centre | 2.15 | 7% |
| Others | 0.25 | 1% |
| All | 30.04 | 100% |
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Shares of the 30.04 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
23% of the homes their owners live in, in Van Buren Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 140 homes, give or take 9 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
Van Buren Township’s own levies
On the same bill, what Van Buren Township charges a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| Never | Road And Bridge Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.663 |
| 2023 | Fire Apparatus | 1.437 |
| 1987 | Road Improvement | 0.463 |
| 2007 | Road Improvement | 0.399 |
| 2022 | Fire | 0.359 |
| 2020 | Emergency | 0.355 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 0.350 |
| 1982 | Emergency | 0.069 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Anna 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.
Van Buren Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
No body that taxes homes in Van Buren Township has a tax issue on this ballot, on the Ohio Secretary of State’s list as of September 18, 2026.
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 Shelby County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Van Buren Township’s school districts
Its homes are in 4 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Anna Local 71% of Van Buren 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.
New Knoxville Local 18% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $757 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 30th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 4 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,522 per student to run its schools.
New Bremen Local 6% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $771 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 12th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 5 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,704 per student to run its schools.
Botkins Local 5% of Van Buren Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $700 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 59th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 3 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $15,383 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.