How Mutual is run
Mutual spent $1,000 in the year to December 31, 2022, about $10 per resident.
What stands out about how Mutual is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $10 per resident a year, or $0.03 a day
The biggest line: fire, at 100% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Revenue is well above spending. That usually means Mutual collects property taxes for the school district and county and passes them on, so only its own spending is counted.
The typical homeowner pays $1,846 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 1.05% of the home’s value, vs 1.31% across Ohio.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Mutual’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Mechanicsburg Exempted Village School District
Mutual’s K–12 school district, shared with Goshen, Mechanicsburg, Union. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $15,554 per pupil, $9,235 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Ohio districts overall: 53% local, 35% state, 12% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Mutual
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Mutual yet. Neighbors can add them.
0 full-time staff
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Mutual.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Ohio HouseState representatives
- 3Ohio SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Ohio
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Mutual’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Mutual is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.