Livingston County Property Tax Rates and Millage

2025 rates for every township, city, and village in the county, plus the neighboring jurisdictions in Oakland, Washtenaw, and Genesee

Total 2025 millage on a principal residence in Livingston County runs from 19.7707 mills at the low end to 40.8320 mills at the high end. That is a spread of more than 21 mills. On a home with a $260,000 taxable value, meaning a home taxed as if it were worth about $520,000, that works out to a difference of about $5,500 a year between the lowest and highest rate jurisdictions in the same county. Every figure below is published by the Michigan Department of Treasury, Property Services Division. This page presents them without the reformatting and rounding that usually happens in between.

How to read these figures

Each row shows two numbers, both expressed in mills. One mill is one dollar of tax per $1,000 of taxable value.

Taxable value is not the price you pay. Michigan sets taxable value against the assessor's own determination of true cash value, at 50 percent of it, and in the year following a sale the taxable value uncaps to that figure. So doubling a taxable value tells you what the assessing jurisdiction is treating the property as being worth. A $260,000 taxable value means a home being taxed as if it were worth about $520,000. The examples on this page use $260,000 throughout on that basis.

What doubling does not tell you is what the home sold for, or what your own taxable value will be after you buy. Michigan law is explicit that a purchase price is not the presumptive true cash value of a property, and the assessor is directed to value transferred property the same way as everything else. The assessor's number and the sale price are related, but they are not the same number and neither one sets the other. Michigan property tax uncapping explained covers what actually happens to taxable value after a sale, including the case where a home ends up taxed on more than the buyer paid.

• With exemption is the total millage on a home that qualifies for and has claimed the Principal Residence Exemption
• Without exemption is the total millage on a property that does not qualify, such as a second home, rental, or investment property

The gap between the two columns is the local school operating millage removed by the exemption, up to 18 mills. If you have not claimed the exemption or are unsure whether the property you are looking at currently carries it, start with the Michigan Principal Residence Exemption explained, because that single line is worth more than the gap between a great number of the jurisdictions listed here.

Livingston County 2025 millage rates

All 19 taxing units in the county, with every local school operating millage combination published for each.

The 18-mill spread, and where it is not quite 18

Subtract the two columns on nearly every row and the difference is exactly 18.0000 mills. That is the statutory ceiling on the local school operating millage the Principal Residence Exemption removes. But it is a ceiling, not a fixed amount, and four operating millages in and around Livingston County sit below it:

• Hartland Consolidated, 17.9136
• Byron Area, 17.7350
• Huron Valley, 17.7209
• Morrice Area, 14.6328

This is why the statute and this page both say the exemption is worth up to 18 mills rather than a flat 18. If you are running numbers on a Hartland Township home, the exemption saves 17.9136 mills, not 18.

Neighboring jurisdictions outside Livingston County

Livingston County borders four counties, and a great deal of activity in the Brighton, South Lyon, and Howell area crosses those lines. These are the adjacent units where that crossover concentrates.

* Treasury publishes more than one rate for these combinations. Within some units, community college millage is levied on part of the area and not another, or different community colleges apply in different parts. A range is shown rather than a single figure.

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What these figures do not include

• The 1 percent property tax administration fee. Treasury excludes it from the published rate tables. The Treasury estimator applies a separate rate set that does include it, which is why the two can differ slightly.
• Special assessments. Road, sewer, drain district, and similar assessments are levied outside the millage stack, are not capped under Proposal A, and appear on neither the published rates nor the estimator. Livingston County has no township-wide ad valorem special assessments in the 2025 data, but property-specific assessments still exist. Have your title company run a search.
• Transfer property rates. Treasury notes its database generally omits rates for transfer properties. Nine such rows in the Livingston County data are excluded here rather than shown without context.
• Your actual bill. These are rates. A bill is a rate multiplied by taxable value, and taxable value uncaps on transfer. See Michigan property tax uncapping explained.

How Derek uses this in a transaction

Derek Bauer is an Associate Broker and REALTOR® with Real Estate One in Brighton, with 24+ years of full-time experience and 1,100+ closed transactions across Livingston, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties. On any property under consideration:

• The taxing jurisdiction is confirmed on the assessing record rather than assumed from the mailing address or the listing
• The applicable millage is identified for that specific parcel, not for the township generally
• Exemption status is verified directly with the assessor, since the two columns above differ by up to 18 mills
• The projected bill is built on the buyer's purchase price rather than the seller's capped taxable value
• Proration is modeled on the advance convention used here, covered in Michigan property tax proration at closing

If you are weighing a purchase and want the carrying cost picture settled before you commit, a Buyer Discovery Session is the place to start. If you are selling, SellerProceeds.com models your net proceeds including the tax proration line.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the property tax rates in Livingston County, Michigan?

For 2025, total millage rates on a principal residence in Livingston County run from 19.7707 mills in Genoa Township to 40.8320 mills in the Village of Fowlerville. Without the Principal Residence Exemption the same rates run from 37.6363 to 58.8320 mills. The rate that applies to a given home depends on the township or city it sits in and which local school operating millage the parcel falls under, so two homes in the same township can carry different totals.

Which Livingston County township has the lowest property taxes?

On the 2025 rates, the lowest principal residence figure in Livingston County is 19.7707 mills, in the portion of Genoa Township under the Brighton Area local school operating millage. Brighton Township under the same operating millage is close behind at 19.8570. A lower millage rate does not automatically mean a lower tax bill, because the bill is millage multiplied by taxable value, and taxable value uncaps when a property transfers.

How much is one mill in Michigan property taxes?

One mill is one dollar of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value. A home with a $260,000 taxable value in a jurisdiction levying 20 mills generates a bill of about $5,200 a year. Taxable value is not the same as sale price. Michigan sets it against the assessor's determination of true cash value, at 50 percent of it, so a $260,000 taxable value means a home being taxed as if it were worth about $520,000. That is the assessing jurisdiction's implied value, not necessarily what the home sold for, and Michigan law provides that a purchase price is not the presumptive true cash value of a property.

Why do two homes in the same Livingston County township have different tax rates?

Because township boundaries and local school operating millage boundaries do not line up. A single township can contain parcels falling under several different operating millages, and each carries its own rate. Green Oak Township is the clearest example in the county: 2025 principal residence rates there run from 25.3046 to 34.9856 mills, a spread of nearly 10 mills inside one township.

Do these Livingston County millage rates include special assessments?

No. These are the rates excluding special assessments, and they also exclude the 1 percent property tax administration fee. Road, sewer, drain district, and similar special assessments are levied separately, are not capped under Proposal A, and do not appear in these figures or in the Treasury estimator. Ask your title company to run a special assessment search on any specific property before closing.

When will 2026 Livingston County millage rates be available?

The Michigan Department of Treasury states that 2026 rates will be posted in spring 2027. Rates on this page are those levied and billed in 2025, which are the current published figures. For an estimate on a specific address in the meantime, the Treasury property tax estimator applies the current rate set automatically once you enter the jurisdiction.

Is there a Livingston County portion of the City of Fenton?

Yes, though it is very small. The City of Fenton spans three counties, with roughly 98 percent of its area and effectively all of its population in Genesee County, a portion of about a tenth of a square mile in Livingston County, and an unpopulated portion in Oakland County. Far more relevant to a home search is that a Fenton mailing address does not mean the property is in the City of Fenton. Over the twelve months ending September 2026, a Realcomp MLS search returned 260 Fenton-addressed properties located in Livingston County, spread across Deerfield, Tyrone, Hartland, and Oceola Townships and taxed at 2025 principal residence rates of 19.9013 to 28.4412 mills, against the City of Fenton's 44.6725 mills.

Related Resources

• Michigan Property Tax Estimator
• Michigan Property Tax Uncapping Explained
• Michigan Principal Residence Exemption
• Michigan Property Tax Proration at Closing
• Livingston County Market Report

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Broker compensation is not set by law and is fully negotiable. All compensation is determined through negotiation between the parties. The information on this page is provided for general informational purposes only and does not constitute professional real estate, legal, financial, or tax advice. Millage figures on this page are 2025 rates levied and billed, as published by the Michigan Department of Treasury, Property Services Division, and do not include the 1% property tax administration fee. They exclude special assessments and omit transfer property rates. School district names appear solely as labels identifying the local school operating millage jurisdiction applicable to a parcel for property tax purposes. Rates change annually and Treasury states that 2026 rates will be posted in spring 2027. Listing counts referenced on this page are drawn from a Realcomp MLS search covering the twelve months ending September 2026 and reflect that data set as of the search date. Verify current rates, taxable value, and exemption status with the assessor for the city or township where the property is located. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Individual transaction outcomes vary. Derek Bauer is a licensed Michigan Associate Broker (License #6506038159) operating under Real Estate One, 565 E. Grand River Ave., Brighton, MI 48116. Equal Housing Opportunity.