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Village of Casnovia

Kent County

Village of Casnovia is a village in Kent County, Michigan. In 2025, primary homes here pay a total of 44.19 mills in property tax; rentals, second homes and businesses pay 61.91 mills. It levied property tax in 1 tax area in 2025. It has 1 board or sub-entity.

Total property tax rate, primary homes

44.19

mills in 2025 · 1 tax area · about $7,189 a year on a median home (estimate)

Total property tax rate, rentals, second homes and businesses

61.91

mills in 2025 · includes the school operating tax

Levies, 2025

1

in 1 tax area

Boards and sub-entities

1

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
Kent City Community Schools 44.1852 $7,189 61.9110

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

Kent City Community Schools · 44.1852 primary homes, 61.9110 other

Billed in 2 parts, in mills: primary homes summer 33.6980, winter 10.4872; rentals, second homes and businesses summer 42.5609, winter 19.3501.

Levy Levied by Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills
Allocated or Charter Operating Village of Casnovia 12.0000 $1,952 12.0000
School Debt Kent City Community Schools 8.2500 $1,342 8.2500
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 Tyrone Township 1.9237 $313 1.9237
Community College Grand Rapids Community College 1.6793 $273 1.6793
Library Kent District Library 1.0832 $176 1.0832
Building and Site Kent City Community Schools 0.9634 $157 0.9634
ISD Voted Vocational Education Kent ISD 0.9310 $151 0.9310
Allocated or Charter Operating Tyrone Township 0.9304 $151 0.9304
Jail Kent County 0.7417 $121 0.7417
Senior Citizens Kent County 0.4914 $80 0.4914
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) Kent City Community Schools 0.0000 $0 17.7258

Where the property tax goes here

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

Of the $7,189 a year a new buyer of a median primary home here would pay (an estimate), about $1,952 goes to the Village of Casnovia (27%). 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 4th 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
  • Village of Casnovia Kent City Community Schools 44.1852 mills $7,189

    Village of Casnovia with Kent City Community Schools: 44.1852 mills in total (State 6.0000, County 6.0037, ISD and college 7.0308, School district 9.2134, City, township or village 14.8541, Library, transit and other 1.0832), estimated $7,189 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
Village of Casnovia, Kent City Community Schools 6.0000 6.0037 7.0308 9.2134 14.8541 1.0832 44.1852 $7,189

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 Village of Casnovia 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 12.0000 $1,952 12.0000 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

Boards and sub-entities

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

5 found · 0 not found

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

    Treasury's Document Search (listed under unit 613010) shows the audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 as received, sent December 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 December 2, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (due December 31, 2025; fiscal year end from its FY2025 audit, for the year ended June 30, 2025).

    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 (listed under unit 613010) shows the annual financial report (F-65) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 as received, sent November 26, 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 26, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (due December 31, 2025; fiscal year end from its FY2025 audit, for the year ended June 30, 2025).

    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: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

    Village Forms (main menu) has a FOIA section linking "Summary of FOIA Procedures and Guidelines" and "updated-foia_policies_and_guidelines" (both uploaded July 2025).

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

Good practice

3 found · 8 not found

  • Not found: Current budget posted

    No budget was found on the Meetings & Agendas, Ordinances, Forms or Village Officials pages.

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

  • Not found: Budgets for the past three years posted

    No budgets were found on the site.

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

  • Not found: Latest audit posted

    No audit was found on the site.

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

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

    No budget spreadsheet or data file was found.

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

  • Not found: Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

    No upcoming meeting date or schedule was found: the home page names only the September 14, 2026 council meeting, already past on the read date, and Forms posts "2025 Village Council and Recycle Dates" (last year's).

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

  • Found: Agendas posted for the past 12 months

    Found on the second reading (a web search of the site, 2026-09-27): Meetings & Agendas posts a council agenda for every month from September 2025 to September 14, 2026 (the September 2026 and January 2026 agendas opened 2026-09-27). The first reading missed this page.

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

  • Found: Minutes posted for the past 12 months

    Meeting Minutes & Agendas posts council minutes for every month from September 2025 to September 2026 except December 2025, a gap of under 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

    Village Officials names the president, president pro tem and three council members, each with a phone number (the president also with an email address).

    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.

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

  • Not found: Employee pay or salary schedule posted

    Village Ordinances posts "2024-06 Council Members Compensation – Amended", setting council members' pay; no pay is posted for the village's employees. A web search of the site (2026-09-27) found no other pay posted. Not found under the publisher's rule of 2026-09-27: G10 needs pay posted for every employee group and every elected official.

    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 gas and electric franchise ordinances are ordinances, not contracts).

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

About

Type
Village
Notes
Straddles Kent (Tyrone Township) and Muskegon County (Casnovia Township). Treasury codes it under Kent (41-3020); Census files it under Muskegon.

Codes

Census of Governments ID
128322
Census GEOID (place)
2613820
Michigan Treasury unit code
413020

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.