Manufactured Homes
MANUFACTURED HOME TAXES: PROPERTY TAX
RELIEF
Number of Homestead Exemptions Granted, Average
Reduction in Taxable Value and Total Reduction in Taxes, by
County, Tax Year 2001
Manufactured home homestead exemptions (i.e. property tax
reductions) were granted to 13,917 manufactured home owners
for the 2001 tax year (2001 collections). Qualified senior
citizens or disabled persons also receive homestead tax
reductions based on their total income, provided that income
does not exceed $23,300.
County auditors provided the figures in the first two columns
of this table. The data in the third column showing the
reduction in real property taxes are the amounts reimbursed
to each county for the manufactured home homestead exemption,
including reimbursements for refunds issued by the county to
taxpayers that filed "late" applications for the tax year
2001 homestead exemption. Administrative fees of $31,481 paid
to the county auditors are excluded from Table HE-2.
One county had not been reimbursed (excluding late-filer
reimbursement) as of this date: Pickaway. Based on the data
available, taxes paid by manufactured home owners were
reduced by $1.6 million. The average reduction amounted to
$113, and the average reduction in value amounted to $1,670.
Cuyahoga County had the most people receiving this tax
reduction, 752, and the largest total reduction in taxes,
$150,591. Auglaize County had the fewest people receiving
this tax reduction, 17, while Morgan County had the smallest
reduction in taxes, $750.