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Shiawassee County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

6

Townships

16

School districts

15

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 24.9802 mills to 52.7625 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 27.1096 mills to 70.7625 mills.

Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Data used: 2025 Michigan Treasury Total Property Tax Rates. Last reviewed July 12, 2026.

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County service directory

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Official Shiawassee County website

County websites are checked against the State of Michigan county website directory . State and court finders are used where one office or district can serve more than one county. Directory reviewed July 12, 2026. Office roles were checked against Michigan Vital Records, Michigan Treasury taxpayer resources, and State Tax Commission guidance.

Local pages

Places in Shiawassee County

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Corunna

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Durand

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Laingsburg

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Ovid

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Owosso

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Perry

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Township

Antrim Township

4 school districts available.

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Bennington Township

5 school districts available.

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Burns Township

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Caledonia Township

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Fairfield Township

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Hazelton Township

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Middlebury Township

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New Haven Township

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Owosso Township

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Perry Township

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Rush Township

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Sciota Township

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Shiawassee Township

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Venice Township

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Vernon Township

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Woodhull Township

6 school districts available.

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Porch Notes

Local notes from Shiawassee County

Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.

Shiawassee County · History and culture

Bancroft took its name from a mining company

The Shiawassee County village was platted when the railroad arrived in 1877, then took the unexpected name of the Bancroft Mining Company.

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Shiawassee County · History and culture

Byron grew up around a dam, and took its name from a poet

The village of Byron began in the 1830s when a company dammed the Shiawassee River for a sawmill, and it carries the name of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

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Shiawassee County · History and culture

How a 600-person village in New Lothrop became a football giant

New Lothrop, a Hazelton Township village of about 600, has won three Michigan high school football state titles — 2006, 2018, and 2020 — against schools many times its size.

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Shiawassee County · History and culture

In Ovid you can change counties without leaving Main Street

The city of Ovid straddles the Clinton–Shiawassee county line — most of town sits in Clinton, while its eastern edge crosses into Middlebury Township in Shiawassee.

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Shiawassee County · History and culture

Owosso's casket works reached 150 a day

Woodard's history dates production of 150 caskets a day to the 1918-19 flu pandemic. A City of Owosso study calls the company the world's largest casket maker throughout the 1920s.

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Shiawassee County · History and culture

The circus train wreck that left a monument in a Durand cemetery

On August 6, 1903, two Great Wallace Shows circus trains collided in the Durand rail yard when the brakes failed, killing about two dozen people and an elephant named Maud.

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