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City of East Grand Rapids

Kent County

City of East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County, Michigan. In 2025, primary homes here pay a total of 47.50 mills in property tax; rentals, second homes and businesses pay 65.50 mills. It levied property tax in 1 tax area in 2025. In fiscal year 2025 it reported $31.4 million in spending across all its funds. It has 7 boards and sub-entities.

Total property tax rate, primary homes

47.50

mills in 2025 · 1 tax area · about $7,728 a year on a median home (estimate)

Total property tax rate, rentals, second homes and businesses

65.50

mills in 2025 · includes the school operating tax

Levies, 2025

3

in 1 tax area

Boards and sub-entities

7

Total property tax rates here, 2025

What property pays to every taxing body (the State, county, schools, local government and others), by tax area. A mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of taxable value.

Compare with every tax area in Kent County →

School district Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills
East Grand Rapids Public Schools 47.4995 $7,728 65.4995

Kent County's certified rates split each area's total between a summer and a winter tax bill; open an area below to see its split.

Primary homes, which their owners live in, pay the homestead rate; so do qualified farmland and a few other kinds of property exempt from the school operating tax. Rentals, second homes and most businesses pay the non-homestead rate, which includes it. What these terms mean

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

Every levy, by tax area

East Grand Rapids Public Schools · 47.4995 primary homes, 65.4995 other

Billed in 2 parts, in mills: primary homes summer 44.4731, winter 3.0264; rentals, second homes and businesses summer 62.4731, winter 3.0264.

Levy Levied by Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills
Allocated or Charter Operating City of East Grand Rapids 11.1419 $1,813 11.1419
School Debt East Grand Rapids Public Schools 9.9500 $1,619 9.9500
State Education Tax State of Michigan 6.0000 $976 6.0000
ISD Voted Special Education Kent ISD 4.3364 $706 4.3364
County Allocated Operating Kent County 4.0605 $661 4.0605
Voted Operating City of East Grand Rapids 1.9632 $319 1.9632
Community College Grand Rapids Community College 1.6793 $273 1.6793
Extra Voted Millage East Grand Rapids Public Schools 1.4153 $230 1.4153
Interurban Transit Partnership Interurban Transit Partnership 1.3817 $225 1.3817
Debt or Street Lights (Real Property Only) City of East Grand Rapids 1.1056 $180 1.1056
Library Kent District Library 1.0832 $176 1.0832
ISD Voted Vocational Education Kent ISD 0.9310 $151 0.9310
Jail Kent County 0.7417 $121 0.7417
Senior Citizens Kent County 0.4914 $80 0.4914
Building and Site East Grand Rapids Public Schools 0.4241 $69 0.4241
Zoo and Museum Kent County 0.4134 $67 0.4134
Ready by Five Kent County 0.2476 $40 0.2476
ISD Allocated Operating Kent ISD 0.0841 $14 0.0841
Veterans Kent County 0.0491 $8 0.0491
School Operating (Non-Homestead) East Grand Rapids Public Schools 0.0000 $0 18.0000

Where the property tax goes here

Each tax area's total for primary homes, split by who levies it.

Of the $7,728 a year a new buyer of a median primary home here would pay (an estimate), about $2,312 goes to the City of East Grand Rapids (30%). The rest goes to the other bodies that levy here: the State, the county, the schools and others.

Its total rate for primary homes ranks 2nd highest of Kent County's 94 tax areas. See every area

  • State
  • County
  • ISD and college
  • School district
  • City, township or village
  • Library, transit and other
  • City of East Grand Rapids East Grand Rapids Public Schools 47.4995 mills $7,728

    City of East Grand Rapids with East Grand Rapids Public Schools: 47.4995 mills in total (State 6.0000, County 6.0037, ISD and college 7.0308, School district 11.7894, City, township or village 14.2107, Library, transit and other 2.4649), estimated $7,728 a year for a new buyer

The figures as a table
Tax area State County ISD and college School district City, township or village Library, transit and other Total Estimated tax
City of East Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids Public Schools 6.0000 6.0037 7.0308 11.7894 14.2107 2.4649 47.4995 $7,728

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

What City of East Grand Rapids levies, 2025

Only its own millages, part of the totals above, and how many tax areas each is levied in.

Levy Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills Tax areas
Allocated or Charter Operating 11.1419 $1,813 11.1419 1
Voted Operating 1.9632 $319 1.9632 1
Debt or Street Lights (Real Property Only) 1.1056 $180 1.1056 1

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

Money in and out, fiscal year 2025

From its annual financial report, as filed with the Michigan Department of Treasury. Its fiscal year ends in June.

Revenue

$32.3M

all funds

Spending

$31.4M

all funds

Spending per resident

$2,702

2024 population: 11,616

General fund spending

$14.8M

budget: $15.6M

Spending by purpose

All funds. Share of $31,386,463 in total.

  • Public works $13,319,405 42%
    Public Works (Non-Act 51) $5,382,288
    Road Commission/Street Dept. (Act 51) $4,184,865
    Sanitation/Landfill/Solid Waste $468,480
    Water and/or Sewer Systems $3,283,772
  • Recreation and culture $5,157,896 16%
    Parks and Recreation $3,719,381
    All Other Recreation and Culture $1,438,515
  • Public safety $4,690,848 15%
    Combined Public Safety Department $4,674,728
    All Other Public Safety Activities $16,120
  • General government $3,025,315 10%
    Legislative (Council, Board, Commission) $37,827
    Chief Executive $463,709
    Treasurer $774,981
    Assessing Equalization $181,851
    Elections $42,200
    Attorney/Corporation Counsel $254,745
    All Other General Government $1,270,002
  • Capital outlay, debt service and other $2,060,549 7%
    Miscellaneous $36,922
    Debt Service $973,700
    Depreciation $1,049,927
  • Transfers out and special items $3,132,450 10%
    Transfers (Out) $3,132,450

Revenue by source

All funds. Share of $32,281,007 in total.

  • Taxes $13,641,480 42%
    Property Tax (includes, delinquent taxes, penalties, interest, fees, community wide special assessments) $13,641,480
  • Charges for services $8,745,925 27%
    All Other Services Rendered Charges $7,571,009
    All Other Statutory Fees $1,174,916
  • State grants $3,159,441 10%
    State Revenue Sharing $1,358,823
    Public Safety $53,709
    Streets and Highways (Act 51) $1,583,973
    Other General/All Other State Aid Grants $162,936
  • Interest and rents $1,083,674 3%
    Interest & Dividends $944,890
    Rents & Royalties $138,784
  • Other revenue $419,753 1%
    Reimbursements $7,159
    Miscellaneous Other Revenue $412,594
  • Federal grants $240,673 1%
    General Government $240,673
  • Licenses and permits $82,941 <1%
    Business Licenses and Permits $15,049
    Non-Business Licenses and Permits $67,892
  • Fines and forfeits $18,442 <1%
    All Fines, Penalties & Forfeits $18,442
  • Special assessments $17,450 <1%
    Special Assessments $17,450
  • From other local governments $3,778 <1%
    Public Safety $3,778
  • Borrowing and transfers in $4,867,450 15%
    Proceeds from Bond/Note Issuance $1,735,000
    Transfers In $3,132,450

"All funds" is the report's total column: the general fund, other governmental funds, enterprise funds such as water and sewer, internal service funds and component units. Its totals include money moved between the government's own funds, and revenue includes money borrowed. Spending per resident is total spending divided by the population shown; the shares are each heading's part of its total. Open a heading to see the lines filed under it.

Population: DashBoard_Metrics (MI Community Financial Dashboard), Michigan Department of Treasury.

Source: FY2025 F65 City, Michigan Department of Treasury, retrieved November 3, 2026.

Revenue and spending, fiscal years 2016–2025

All funds, as filed each year.

Revenue Spending
The figures as a table
Fiscal year Revenue Spending General fund spending Long-term debt
2025 $32,281,007 $31,386,463 $14,794,342 $10,300,000
2024 $33,607,414 $33,828,233 $16,201,082 $9,240,000
2023 $28,434,013 $27,856,210 $12,774,464 $9,870,000
2022 $30,929,584 $23,566,159 $12,213,805 $10,509,200
2021 $32,341,815 $30,502,921 $11,650,841 $5,892,100
2020 $24,732,065 $23,581,700 $11,578,185 $7,060,000
2019 $24,315,482 $23,631,526 $11,745,716 $7,854,356
2018 $24,024,724 $23,010,755 $11,599,739 $8,616,353
2017 $23,448,475 $22,416,062 $11,066,611 $9,474,112
2016 $19,718,596 $19,449,678 $10,708,158 $9,719,117

Each year links to the dataset it comes from. A year with dashes across has no report in the State's data.

Debt, pensions and staff, fiscal year 2025

As reported in the same filing.

Debt and fund balance

Long-term debt at year end
$10,300,000
General fund balance at year end
$7,281,401
Of which unassigned
$6,511,815

Pensions and retiree health care

Unfunded pension liability
$5,394,328
Pension funded, general employees
70.9%
Pension funded, police and fire
—
Unfunded retiree health care (OPEB)
$3,276,543

Staff

Police
—
Fire
—
Combined public safety
23
All other staff
67
Wages and salaries
$6,617,384

A dash means the State's data has no figure for that line. Its datasets leave out zero amounts in most years, so a dash can also be a zero that was filed. The unfunded pension liability is the filing's "aggregate pension liability" line.

Source: FY2025 F65 City, Michigan Department of Treasury, retrieved November 3, 2026.

Boards and sub-entities

Authorities and special districts

Boards, commissions and committees

Transparency checks

What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.

Grade pending

A grade appears once every check below has been read and the site has set its grading scale. Every check counts the same.

Required by law

6 found · 1 not found

  • Found: Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year

    Treasury's Document Search shows the audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 as received, sent November 2, 2025.

    Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; MCL 141.921 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year

  • Found: Audit filed on time

    Sent November 2, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (due December 31, 2025; fiscal year end from its F-65).

    Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.921 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Audit filed on time

  • Found: Annual financial report (F-65) filed with the State

    Treasury's Document Search shows the annual financial report (F-65) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 as received, sent November 2, 2025.

    MCL 141.424(3) · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Annual financial report (F-65) filed with the State

  • Found: Annual financial report (F-65) filed on time

    Sent November 2, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (due December 31, 2025; fiscal year end from its F-65).

    Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.424(3) · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Annual financial report (F-65) filed on time

  • Found: Retirement report (Form 5572) filed with the State

    Treasury's FY2025 status report (as of September 18, 2026) does not list it as "No Retirement Submission".

    PA 202 of 2017, MCL 38.2805 · FY2025 · Read September 26, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Retirement report (Form 5572) filed with the State

  • Found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

    The Transparency page (Government menu) links "FOIA Policy - Detail" (/DocumentCenter/View/580) and "Summary of FOIA Policy" (/DocumentCenter/View/579). The homepage's "FOIA Requests" link opens only the request form. The page was located through the site search at /Search, which the site's robots.txt disallows for automated readers; see the research note.

    MCL 15.234(4) · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

  • Not found: Retirement report information posted

    No PA 202 report (Form 5572) or Treasury's summary of it was found on its finance, budget and transparency pages. The second reading (the site's sitemap, and the links on its home and finance pages) found none.

    MCL 38.2805(8) · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Retirement report information posted

Good practice

6 found · 6 not found

  • Found: Current budget posted

    The Archive Center's Budgets list has "2026-2027 Proposed Budget" for the fiscal year in progress (July 2026 to June 2027); no approved version is posted separately.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Current budget posted

  • Found: Budgets for the past three years posted

    The Archive Center's Budgets list has "2025-2026 Commission Approved Budget", "2024-2025 Proposed Budget" and "2023-2024 Commission Approved Budget".

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Budgets for the past three years posted

  • Found: Latest audit posted

    The Archive Center's Audited Financial Statements list has "2025 Audit Report".

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Latest audit posted

  • Not found: Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

    The budgets in the Archive Center and on the Transparency page are documents, not spreadsheets or data files.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

  • Found: Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

    The Mayor & Commission page gives the meeting schedule: "First and third Mondays of each month".

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

  • Found: Agendas posted for the past 12 months

    The Agenda Center has a City Commission agenda for every meeting from January 5 to September 21, 2026; the Archive Center has the late-2025 agendas.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Agendas posted for the past 12 months

  • Not found: Minutes posted for the past 12 months

    City Commission minutes are posted through March 30, 2026 (Agenda Center; the Archive Center's list ends February 17, 2026). None are posted for the meetings from April 20 to July 20, 2026, a gap longer than two months.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Minutes posted for the past 12 months

  • Found: Members' names and a way to contact them posted

    The Commissioners page names every commissioner by ward with contact links, and gives an email for the whole commission.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Members' names and a way to contact them posted

  • Not found: Check register (payments) posted

    No check register or payments list was found on the Transparency page or in the Archive Center.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Check register (payments) posted

  • Not found: Employee pay or salary schedule posted

    No salary schedule, pay ranges or pay by position was found on the Transparency page, the Archive Center or the Mayor & Commission page.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Employee pay or salary schedule posted

  • Not found: Current contracts posted

    No list of current contracts or contract in force was found; the Archive Center's Bid Documents archive is empty.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Current contracts posted

  • Not found: Labor agreements posted

    Its FY2025 audit filed with Treasury distinguishes union and non-union employees in its pension notes; no labor agreement is posted on the city's site.

    Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Labor agreements posted

About

Type
City

Codes

Census of Governments ID
128300
Census GEOID (county subdivision)
2608123980
Census GEOID (place)
2623980
Michigan Treasury unit code
412020

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

Open Government Project · a nonpartisan, nonprofit project

Every figure comes from a public record, cited on its page.