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West Township
West Township is in Columbiana County. A home its owner lives in here pays about $1,367 a year for every $100,000 of the county’s value on it, on the 2025 rates, and its homes are in 2 school districts, most of them in Minerva Local.
What a home in West Township pays
$1,367 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,735 a year; at $300,000, about $4,102. 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 Columbiana County, the same home pays $1,168 on average, so a home in West Township pays 17% more. The average weights each taxing district by its homes’ value.
| Who | Mills on a home | Share of the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 23.51 | 60% |
| The county | 3.65 | 9% |
| Sandy Creek Joint Fire District and West Township | 10.07 | 26% |
| The career centre | 1.75 | 4% |
| Others | 0.08 | 0% |
| All | 39.07 | 100% |
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Shares of the 39.07 mills a home here is charged, in the taxing district holding most of West 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 West Township
29% of the homes their owners live in, in West Township, belong to someone 65 or older — about 340 homes, give or take 14 points.
Columbiana County: 37% · 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 West Township and Sandy Creek Joint Fire District levy
On the same bill, what West Township and Sandy Creek Joint Fire District charge a home here, after the state’s reduction and credits. A home in West 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 | 1.925 |
| 2012 | Road Improvement | 1.695 |
| Never | Current expense Inside millage: no vote was ever taken on it | 1.137 |
| 2011 | Road Improvement | 0.565 |
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| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fire & E.M.S | 2.812 |
| 2012 | Fire & E.M.S | 1.940 |
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The schools’, the county’s and the library’s levies are on the same bill: Minerva Local’s levies, every levy in Columbiana County. A year of 1976 means that year or earlier: the state files every levy voted before House Bill 920 took effect under 1976.
West Township on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Every tax issue asked by a body that taxes homes in West Township: 1 on this ballot.
West Township
- Renewal property tax, 3 mills · Roads
Matched from who levies on West 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 Columbiana County →
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
West Township’s school districts
Its homes are in 2 school districts, most of its home value first. Which one a home is in is printed on its tax bill.
Minerva Local 90% of West Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $753 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 261st of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $14,473 per student to run its schools.
United Local 10% of West Township’s home value
Its school levies cost a home about $626 a year for every $100,000. Its pupils’ test scores rank 332nd of Ohio’s 607 districts, and the state rates their Progress 2 of 5. In 2024-25 it spent $16,197 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: Columbiana County’s unpaid tax and foreclosures →
6Reappraisals
When values reset next
Values are reset county by county, every three years: when Columbiana 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.